Craft Activities
Training and prizes
Throughout its long history The Company has taken special interest in the training of craftsmen and encouraged the highest standards of workmanship. Today it awards prizes for bricklaying and tiling to apprentices in conjunction with
- Skillbuild and the Skill Olympics
- Better Brickwork Alliance
- Guild of Bricklayers
- Royal Engineers
- Building Crafts College
- City & Guilds
There is also a Triennial Award for excellence in design and craftsmanship of roof slating or tiling, bricklaying and ceramic tiling carried out within the M25. Awards are presented to the owner of the building, the architect, main contractor and the trade foreman.
Annual seminars are arranged on historic or other aspects of the crafts.
The Stokes Royal Engineers Award
to the Senior and Junior Sappers with the highest marks for the year in brickwork at the Royal Engineers School of Military Engineering, Chatham. Presented annually at our March Court lunch the following year.
- Senior Award - £250, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll.
- Junior Award - £100, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll.
The E & R Fuller Award
for the London and Southeast of England Training Colleges brickwork competition for Senior (Level 3 NVQ) and Junior (Level 2 NVQ) apprentices set and judged by the Guild of Bricklayers in February. The Awards presented annually at our June Court meeting.
- Senior Winner - £500, an engraved silver trowel and Company scroll.
- Junior Winner - £100 and our Company scroll.
(NB The senior winner can qualify for an additional £300 grant towards expenses if they attend the next annual UK Skillbuild competition held in October)
The National Skillbuild Competition
awarded annually to the winner and runner-up in each of our three crafts.
The Mason-Elliott Awards for Roof Slating & Tiling and also Ceramic Tiling
Winners of each craft - £250, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll. Runners-Up of each craft - £100 and our Company scroll.
The Montgomery Award for Brickwork
- Winner - £250, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll.
- Runners-Up - £100 and our Company scroll.
The Better Brickwork Alliance -
Our Company's 'Best Practice Award' competition for final year apprentices representing their Training Colleges on a regional basis. The prizes sponsored by the Construction Industry and the test piece designed and judged by the Guild of Bricklayers, which must be carried out within 15 hours. This is their first year for this annual Award and is divided this year into two regions, North and South England. This will be extended next year into the nine C.I.T.B. regions for England and then the following year to the 13 regions of the U.K. Each prize giving will be held in a regional Guildhall or a City Livery Hall, if near London.
- Winner of each region - £500, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll.
- Runners-Up of each region - £250 and our Company scroll.
The Ceramic Tile Industry
The Tile Association. Our Company's 'Best Practice Award' is currently being developed and will be sponsored by their Industries manufacturers using the same criteria as The Better Brickwork Alliance scheme. It is due to commence next year with prizes for their four regions of the U.K. Winner of each region - £500, our engraved Company silver medal and scroll. Runners-Up of each region - £250 and our Company scroll.