Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director & Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor.

The Committee considered a report of the Executive Director and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor outlining the proposal for the City Corporation to approve a new Lord Mayor’s Green Bursary (working title) – funded by the Merchant Taylors’ Foundation and the City & Guilds Foundation – which will support young Londoners to gain green skills and help their communities reach net zero.

The Executive Director and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor summarised the paper by stating that it was a bursary proposed to help support 1-3 young Londoners in terms of green skills. Support for the initiative was sought for the next 5 years.

An Alderman reported that the Corporation were also running a ‘Skills for a Sustainable Skyline’ taskforce of which she was an active member and Chair of one of the Sub-Groups.

The focus here was examining the barriers to creating green skills for the Central London Construction industry. This would seem to link in well with this initiative with City & Guilds also being involved in the taskforce. The Alderman therefore asked that ways to join the two and better enforce the message be explored.

Another Alderman stated that other liveries such as the Gardeners were also running similar initiatives around green skills and questioned whether this would therefore be communicated more widely to perhaps serve as a template for future discussions. The Executive Director and Private Secretary stated that she would be happy to share this more widely in due course.

RESOLVED:-  That the Committee approve the setting up of a Lord Mayor’s Green Bursary.