Fulfilling our historic purpose as a platform for opportunity
Our Guiding Principles
Our guiding principles are truths that serve as a foundation for how we operate. They are based on consistent historic precedent and our ambitions in the present day.
COMPASSION
Compassion lies at the core of our identity and purpose. We have an enduring charitable legacy, from 1444 to the present day. We are committed to the support and service of others.
ENDEAVOUR
We endeavour to be the best we can be, striving for excellence in our approaches and practices, being ready to learn and to set examples of leadership.
INDEPENDENCE
Our independence, based on a 600-year heritage, informs our responsibilities as stewards in the present, gives us an ability to innovate, and to respond to needs and opportunities.
As stewards of an enduring legacy, we are driven by charitable ambition and our responsibility to future generations
Our Mission Statement
The Leathersellers' Company
To Steward our assets (financial, historic and relational) and support the work of the Leathersellers’ Foundation – ensuring each generation of members passes on a better organisation
The Leathersellers' Foundation
To enable individuals and communities by working with charities; to foster opportunity through education; and to support the UK leather trade