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How
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In
Coventry the only way one can become a Freeman is by servitude. This
is rather unique since other cities mostly introduce their candidates
by redemption or by patrimony. RULE
FOR ADMITTANCE TO THE FREEDOM Qualifying
Period of Service The trades
and professions concerned are recognised as the appropriate bodies
to determine periods of apprenticeship for their own purposes but
it does not necessarily follow that these periods should be the sole
qualification for admission to the Freedom of the City. Accordingly
the qualifying period is defined as follows:- (a)
The service of not less than 5 years full-time apprenticeship; or (b)The
service of such lesser period of apprenticeship as is required to
be served in a particular trade or profession (as prescribed from
time to time by National or Local Agreements or Professions' requirements
relating to that trade or profession) supplemented after apprenticeship
(but not necessarily consecutively) by an appropriate period of
employment (but not necessarily with the same employer) in the same
trade or profession and within the qualifying area (or elsewhere
in the employment of a firm with a principal or major place of business
in the qualifying area) so as to complete in total a period of 5
years service. It
follows from the above that pre-apprenticeship periods at school
or college with continue not to count for Freedom purposes and only
that time served after the date of the Agreement signed or sealed
between the apprentice and the master will count. It
should be noted that the supplementary period of employment after
apprenticeship referred to in (b) above does not need to be continuous
(e.g if a supplementary period of two years was required, two separate
years could be worked with a break in between.) Qualifying
Area of Service The
Qualifying Age of 21 years For
more details please see the following site for an application
form. Or Contact
Keith Talbot
The area has been extended to that covered by a circle drawn
with a radius of four and a half miles from St. Mary's Hall or boundary
of the City, which ever is the larger.
The age qualification has been removed since five years will need
to be served under (1) above. This age will take all school leavers
up to 21 years of age or over by the time they take the Freemen's
Oath.
After fulfilling the above requirements, Freemen are eligible to
join the Guild.
E'mail: keith.talbot3@ntlworld.com
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