Agenda item

To consider the report of the Deputy Town Clerk.

The Committee received the report of the Deputy Town Clerk.

A Member commented on the benefits of including the relationship between Freemasonry and the slave trade.

A Member commented that the Corporation should formulate a plan on what it would do with the findings of the research.

A Member commented on the role of the Church of England in the matter (noting the role of St Mary Woolnoth in particular), noting also the role of other City institutions and other research already undertaken that could be incorporated into the proposed research. 

Members noted and endorsed the application to the Policy and Resources Committee’s Policy Initiatives Fund for £34,400 to commission a piece of independent research into the City of London Corporation’s links to the historical trade in enslaved African people.