Phil's Walk to York!

I am aiming to raising £7000 for the new dining room furniture for the Mezzanine level at the Livery Hall of the Worshipful Company of Butchers in London. I will be walking solo from Butchers' Hall in Bartholomew Close to the Company of Butchers of the City of York and will be delivering a written message from the London Master to the York Master.

The distance will be approximately 220-240 miles starting off from Butchers Hall on the first week of August and taking about seven days.

As you all know the Hall has been closed for the last two years and will not reopen till 2019. A great many changes will have been made to the structure as well as the fabric of the Hall and this incurs great expense to the Livery. Anything I can do to help will be a drop in the ocean but every bit helps!

The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the seven oldest of the City of London Livery Companies and is ranked 24th in order of precedence out of 110 Livery Companies.

Granted its Royal Charter of Incorporation by King James 1 in 1605, the Worshipful Company of Butchers has been the significant power behind the trade in the City of London and around Smithfield for over a thousand years.

Direct links with the Crown go back before the 12th century when rents were extracted for markets and grazing, this close connection continued when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, became an Honorary Freeman in 1976 and again when the Princess Royal, who takes a keen interest in all the activities of the Company, was installed as Master in September 2010.