1. Name
The name of the Livery is 'The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London' (The Coachmakers).

2. Status
The Coachmakers is a City Livery Company by Royal Charter.

3. Objects
The Coachmakers seek to promote excellence in the trade of the Aerospace, Automotive and other Transport industries by fund raising to provide bursaries and educational trusts.

It seeks to maintain close links between the City of London and Her Majesty's Armed Services by affiliation with a unit from each of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.

4. Management of the Company
The Company is managed by a Court consisting of the Master, Snior Warden, Renter Warden, Junior Warden and up to 23 Assistants. The Court appoints a Clerk to the Company who is accountable to the Court. The Court appoints other subordinate Committees to assist in administering the activities of the Company. They cover policy making, financial investments, management of Coachmakers charities, social and sporting activities.

The Court shall meet not less than four times per year. A quorum shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be the Master or a Warden.

The Master, Wardens and Chairmen of other committees are elected at a meeting of the Court on 1 September each year (The Election Court Meeting). If this date falls on a weekend the Court meeting takes place on the first Monday of September.

5. Charter and Ordinances
The founding of the Coachmakers is based on the granting of a Charter by King Charles the Second on 31st May 1677. A Grant of Arms was made on 17th July 1677. The Ordinances of the Company were confirmed on 7th December 1677. The Oaths to be taken by the Master, Wardens, Assistants, Liverymen, Freemen, Clerk and Beadle on taking office are contained in the Ordinances of the Company. A second Charter was granted to the Company by King James the Second on 12th May 1687. Finally, a Charter of Restitution was granted to all Companies of the City of London on 23rd October 1688.

Copies of these documents which include the procedure for election of Court members are held in the Clerk's office.

6. Categories of Membership

a. Royal Liverymen.
b. Freemen - this category has restrictions on rights and privileges.
c. Liverymen - they are full members with all rights and privileges.
d. Liverymen 'Honoris Causa' - appointed by the Court but do not pay an entrance fee or subscription.
e. Honorary Freemen - appointed by the Court.

7. Procedure for Election of Members
A candidate for election must be proposed and seconded by two Court members. Following approval by the Court, candidates will be sworn to the Freedom at the next Court meeting. Livery Freemen than make two visits to the Chamberlain's Court within three months of being sworn to the Freedom of the Livery to gain admittance to the Freedom of the City of London. Candidates are then sworn to the Livery at the next Court meeting and become entitled to all rights and privileges of the Company.

8. Accountant
At the Election Court meeting each year a Company Accountant shall be appointed. The duties include keeping proper books of account as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the affairs of the Company and its Charitable funds.

Responsibilities will include the submission of all returns as may be required by law in relation to the accounts to be rendered at the due time. Financial Statements made up to 31st August in each year shall be prepared for submission to the Court.

9. Auditors
At the Election Court meeting each year Auditors as authorised under the Companies Acts shall be appointed whose duty it is to Audit the Accounts of the Company and its Charitable funds for the current year.

10. Trustees
All the Charitable funds shall be vested in a minimum of three Trustees appointed by the Court and shall be held by the Trustees subject to the disposition of the Court. The Trustees are responsible under the governing charity document for controlling the management and administration under charity law. Trustees will normally serve for a period of five years.

11. Financial Year
The financial year of the Company shall end on 31 August in every year to which day the accounts shall be balanced and reported upon by the Auditors.

12. Members Addresses
Every Member shall furnish the Clerk with an up-to-dateaddress which shall be recorded in the Roll of Members (The Livery Directory) and any notice sent to such address shall be deemed to have been duly delivered.

13. Entrance Fees (Fines)
Upon election to the Freedom of the Livery candidates shall pay an entrance fee. Candidates under 35 years of age shall pay at a rate of 50% of the full fee. Candidates under 25 years of age and those elected by Patrimony or as Honoris Causa Liverymen shall not be required to pay an entrance fee.

A fee shall be paid by a Liveryman on election to the Court as an Assistant and when elected to the post of Junior Warden. A Liverman appointed by the Court 'Honoris Causa' will also pay a fee on election to the Court as an Assistant and when elected to the post of Junior Warden. These fees are set by the Court annually. The rates of entrance fee are held in the Clerk's office.

All cheques are to be made payable to 'The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers' and sent to the Clerk.

14. Subscriptions
All Members in categories 6b and 6c are required to pay an annual subscription at the rate per annum of their category of membership currently in force. This is set by the Court annually, and a copy is kept in the Clerk's office.

15. Senior Members
Full Members who have attained the age of 65 years or over and who have been a Member for such a number or years as to give them a combined age and years of membership of 90, shall pay an annual subscription of 50% of the full subscription for their category of membership.

16. Part Year Subscriptions
A Freeman elected after the 1st March shall pay a subscription for that year to 31st August of 50% of the full rate for their category of membership.

17. Review of Subscriptions
The Court may vary the subscription. Any variation shall be notified to Members during the month of July next after making the decision to make a variation.

18. Date and Payment of Subscriptions
All annual subscriptions shall be payable in advance on the first day of September each year by cheque, standing order at the current rate of subscription, or by direct debit. Any Member elected after 1st September 1989 shall give and maintain during their membership of the Company instructions to their bank to pay their subscriptions on the due date by the Direct Debit Scheme operated by the Clearing Banks of England, Scotland and Ireland.

19. Subscription in Arrears

(a) If a Member fails to pay the annual subscription on or before 1st November after it has become due, he shall pay a penalty fine of 10% of the unpaid sum and a Notice will be sent to the Member by the Clerk copied to the Court calling attention to such failure.

(b) If payment (including the penalty fine) has not been made by 1st December next, the Master will write to the Member advising that his name will be presented to the Court as a defaulter. If payment is not forthcoming immediately the Court shall be invited to classify the Member as a defaulter and thet this shall be signified in the Livery Roll and promulgated to the Livery.

(c) No Member whose name has been promulgated as a defaulter shall be allowed the privileges of the Livery, which include attending functions even as a guest, or being re-elected at a future date.

(d) If at any time a Member whose name has been promulgated as a defaulter for non-payment of subscriptions shall give the Court a satisfactory explanation, he may, at the absolute discretion of the Court and upon payment of all sums due, be reinstated on the Livery Roll as an active member without payment of an entrance fee (if any).

20. Livery Roll
The Members of the Company shall be listed in order of seniority from admission to the Freedom on the Livery Roll to be held by the Clerk.

A list of the members specifying the name and seniority of such Members together with a set of Rules, Regulations and Bye-Laws shall be printed and circulated at intervals to be decided upon by the Court.

21. Resignation
A Member wishing to withdraw from the Livery must give notice in writing to the Clerk before 1st September in any one year or they will be liable for the subscription of the ensuing year.