The Worshipful Company of Horners

The Worshipful Company of Horners, in common with other City Livery Companies, are active supporters and sponsors of educational and design related projects. The Company has close links with the Plastics Industry and its educational activities are focused on science related projects of relevance to this industry.

The Company has been a major sponsor of SHAP since the development of the SHAP pilot course in the late 1990s. In addition to co-funding the course development and revision, the Horners make a substantial contribution to the ongoing support of SHAP teachers and students through the work of the Project Office in York. They offer book grants to centres introducing SHAP, and sponsor annual awards for SHAP students. The Company has established an Educational Charitable Fund which is primarily directed towards projects relating to plastics, their applications, their scientific principles and excellence in design.‌‌‌‌

The Horners also sponsor several other science education and design activities including the following:

Polymer Study Tours
Residential courses for secondary school science and technology teachers are designed to increase their understanding and awareness of plastics and the plastics industry.

Fantastic Plastic
A web based resource that can be used by students in their own time to explore the various aspects of modern themes in plastics.

Science Opens Doors
The Project aims to access the prime influencers of primary school children, their parents and teachers, and brings them together with the children in the classroom with a science agenda. Pupils and parents carry out simple scientific investigations together, and receive information about science based careers.

CREST Star
This scheme provides primary school teachers with a ready to use set of novel teaching materials, encouraging primary school children to develop skills of scientific enquiry.

For further details of these activities, and others sponsored by the Horners Company, please visit the Horners website.