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    • City Consorts Calendar
    • C2 Save the Date
    • C2 Past Events
    • C2 Members' Offers and Events
    • C2 Members' Experiences
    • Upcoming Civic Events 2021 and Specials
    • City Livery Company Diary
  • Membership
    • Why join?
    • Membership Brooches
    • City Consorts AGM Reports
    • City Consorts Questionnaire
    • Testimonials
  • Members Only
    • C2 Upcoming City Consorts Events
    • Consent to publish my data
    • Members' Directory
    • Being a Consort in a pandemic
    • Being a Consort >
      • The Role >
        • It’s a matter of choice ....and partly tradition
        • Preparing for the role
        • Responsibilities
        • Building up your knowledge and experience
        • A Consort's Year - A True Story
        • Consort Brooch
      • What you can expect >
        • The Year in brief - Typical Invitations
        • Ironbridge
        • Your Year's Association of Consorts
        • Appeal Events
        • Possible Ceremonies at Formal Events
        • Public Speaking
        • Accommodation
      • Having a great time >
        • Attend, Attend, Attend
        • Prepare and have fun
        • Greeting everyone
        • Possibly host your own event
      • Where to get help or advice >
        • Immediate Past Consort
        • City Consorts as a Resource
        • Your Master as a Resource
        • The Clerk and the Beadle
      • Dress >
        • Dress - The Basics
        • Mansion House Banquets
        • Dress Tips for Women Consorts
        • Hats, Bags and Jewellery
    • C2 Members' Special Occasions
    • Past Consorts’ Reflections
    • TIPS from Consorts
    • Sharing Experiences
    • Useful Resources >
      • Books
      • Helpful Summaries or Documents
      • Really Useful Websites
      • LIVERY Briefings
      • Web Links to Livery Companies
      • Photos of all Masters and Consorts
      • YOUTUBE Videos
      • Web Links to Livery Company Halls
      • Web Links to Livery Calendars and Events
    • The City >
      • City of London Corporation
      • Two Courts
      • The Wards
      • The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs
      • Election of The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
      • A Tour of the City
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      • The Livery Companies
      • Freedom of the City of London
      • Membership of a Livery
      • The Governance of a Livery Company
      • The Livery Committee
      • The Clerk
      • Order of Precedence
      • Livery Traditions
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      • Members' Sign-In Instructions
      • ZOOM and Facebook help!
      • Request A Print
      • Official Documents
      • Key Contacts
      • Contact Us
    • Interesting Facts >
      • Lockdowns of the past
      • Facts about the City of London
      • More about London
      • Our City of London
      • Historical Facts
      • Livery Halls/Companies
      • Traditions and Ceremonies
      • Yesterdays Jobs in London
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OUR STORY OF CITY CONSORTS - 2020

Told by City Consorts Society Founder Von Spofforth, Past Mistress Chartered Accountant 2015-16
Von Spofforth was educated in Sussex and enjoyed a varied career in beauty, baking and building!! After running her own businesses in Brighton and later in Barbados, she returned to the UK and became active as a livery company consort to her husband.

She is a liveryman in her own right and was instrumental in forming, and remains Chairman of, City Consorts. City Consorts is unique in that it is a Society of Consorts of Masters of City of London Livery companies whose common purpose is to help build confidence in future Consorts.  No other Society does this.
 
Looking back over the last three years, Von thanks all our members who have made C2 what it is:  a thriving and progressive community of Consorts from almost all the Livery Companies and Guilds, who work together to ensure that future Consorts have as fulfilling a year as possible.
 
We have been on a steady learning curve and it is so important that we continue to enlighten and enrich all of our future consorts about the role they will have the privilege to play. Primarily we do this using past consorts’ experience and advice on all our social occasions and also on this website in the members area.
 
2020 has been particularly difficult but we have not been defeated.  Having planned a year full of face-to-face events in the City of London, our City life and social life in general ground to a halt on 23 March.  However, we are organising a wide range of virtual events where our members can socialise over Zoom. Our private members only Facebook page is updated regularly by our Committees and our members with details of installations and extensions of years in office, fun and useful information about the City, and lots more.

In July 2020, Von agreed to do an audio interview as Chairman of City Consorts as one of the Voices of the City of London with Paul Jagger. Here is her 30 minute podcast for you to listen to - enjoy:
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https://cityandlivery.podbean.com/e/von-spofforth-chairman-of-city-consorts/
 
Mark and Von Spofforth, Past Master and Mistress Chartered Accountant 2015-16
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