The Worshipful Company of Educators
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-10)

We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.

The Armed Forces Covenant

An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families

The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.

Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.

This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.

Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

1.1 We The Worshipful Company of Educators will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment

2.1 The Worshipful Company of Educators recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- UK Reservists
We also pledge the following:

We will seek to maintain strong links with each of our affiliated service units, promoting regular correspondence, and issuing regular invitations for service personnel to attend Company events. We will encourage our affiliated service units to nominate one point of contact and to keep us advised of changes in staffing, the Company in return will encourage correspondence with the Clerk’s office to provide continuity of contact. We will seek to involve a cross section of members in visits to affiliated service units, when opportunities arise. We will encourage members of our affiliated service units to apply for membership of the Company, to provide friendship and fellowship and increase understanding among members and the Affiliated units of Armed Forces. We will publicise our links with affiliated service units, and talk about their work. We will appoint a Military Liaison Officer within the Company to act as a focal point for organising and promoting support for the Armed Forces Community and our affiliated service units. We will participate in, and provide a financial contribution to, the City of London Garden of Remembrance service each year, and will seek to support other City of London events commemorating the fallen or supporting the armed forces. We will celebrate the work of outstanding educators within our affiliate service units by making or procuring the making of awards to outstanding educators in our affiliated service units. The Armed Forces deliver a significant contribution as educators to those serving and in training, thus engaging directly with the Worshipful Company of Educators’ Object ‘‘to raise public awareness of, and to promote, the education profession, and to uphold its standards of excellence and integrity’’ as well as the Company’s organisational obligations. We will seek opportunities to share best practice and ideas on the education profession with our affiliated service units.

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.