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June 29, 2017

Former FfW Chair becomes Master of the Clothworkers’ Foundation

Former Futures for Women Trustee and Chairman, Dr Carolyn Boulter, has made history by becoming the first female Master of the Clothworkers’ Company.  Carolyn is the 498th Master of the Clothworkers’ Company and was elected at a ceremony in London on 7 June 2017.  She will take the oath and be installed on 19th July and will serve for one year.

Founded by Royal Charter in 1528, the original purpose of The Clothworkers’ Company was to protect its members and promote the craft of cloth-finishing within the City of London.  The Company’s role today is essentially philanthropic and the Clothworkers’ Foundation makes annual grants of £5 million per year.

Dr Carolyn Boulter served as a Trustee of Futures for Women for 35 years and held the position of Chairman of the Board for several years during her tenure.   She was instrumental in introducing new, more efficient, administrative processes for the charity and also instigated the annual Development Day meeting which gives Trustees an opportunity to discuss a specific issue.  Our lunch at Englefield House in March 2015 was masterminded by Carolyn who worked tirelessly to promote the event to her contacts in her local community.

Commenting on her appointment as Master of the Clothworkers’ Company Carolyn said: “Clothworker blood flows in my veins and I am honoured and delighted to carry on the family tradition of service to the Company as a scientist, educationalist and especially as a woman”.

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June 22, 2017

Grantees awarded loans in June 2017

We have just held our June set of interviews and awarded loans to five inspirational women.

The first is undertaking an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford, as a foundation for her planned career as a criminal Barrister.

Our second grantee is a former professional actress who is now undertaking a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling.

We also awarded a loan to a student of Contemporary Crafts who will shortly be moving to Edinburgh College of Art to take up her place on an MA Glass degree.

Our fourth grantee is working as a Research Scientist in planetary physics but is due to return to university to study an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering in order to pursue a career in the renewable energy industry.

Finally we met a musician studying a DPhil in Music at the University of Oxford where she is researching how contemporary opera is being shaped by digitization.

Yet again Trustees were delighted to be able to assist such dedicated and hard-working women attain their chosen career.

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June 13, 2017

Farewell to Karen Goldie Morrison as a Trustee

Our Annual General Meeting for 2017 was held once again in the magnificent Pavilion Suite in PricewaterhouseCooper’s office in More London.  Our thanks go to Emma Whalley Hands for arranging the meeting room for us.

After the business of the meeting had been concluded AGM Chairman Lady Appleyard paid tribute to retiring Trustee, Karen Goldie Morrison.  Karen has served as a Trustee on Futures for Women for 7 years and during that time has worked with two Secretaries to improve administrative efficiency of the charity, arranged complimentary meeting space and donated office equipment.

Following her retirement Karen will remain a member of Futures for Women but will be spending more time with her new grand-daughter.

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