The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers

www.armourersandbrasiers.co.uk

Court Dinner, Armourers' Hall, London
January 2010

     

Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust

The Trust was founded in 1979 and two thirds of its funds are devoted to the promotion of Materials Science, which is now the great pre occupation of the Company. Materials Science is particularly appropriate to the Company because it is, like the making of armour and brass and copper ware, multidisciplinary and belongs to the area where pure science and engineering combine. The Company seeks to encourage education in science from primary to postdoctoral levels and has close connec tions with schools and universities throughout the United Kingdom. It also seeks to extend the use of materials science in commercial and industrial ways, has contacts with industry and has entered into partnership schemes with Rolls-Royce, Corus and AWE to further this. It works closely with the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Its latest venture is to institute a prize of £25,000 for the best scheme for the commercial use of mater ials. The last third of the Trust’s funds is used for the ancient charitable interests of the Com pany: the care of the young and the elderly, the exercise of the Christian Faith and the study of Arms and Armour.