The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers

2026 Sheriff’s Challenge

Past Master Michael Godbee  and Court Assistant Alan McLintock supported our linked inner London Academy, Mulberry University Technical College as their team competed in the 2026 Sheriff’s Challenge. The heat was at Anglia Ruskin University’s East India Campus and took place on Thursday 5^th February.

The Sheriff’s Challenge is a two-heat annual competition designed by the City of London to give students in London schools a chance to hone their public speaking skills by delivering a team-work presentation, competitively, on a topic relating to the City of London or the business/wider world. This year the topic was “Given the rise of AI, should the City of London continue to support human made arts?”.  The finalists compete in front of two robed and wigged judges at the Old Bailey.

The Mulberry pupils were all very confident and polished and gave a great performance with an interesting take on the topic (unbeknownst to the audience until the end, one side of the team’s analysis were actually all AI generated answers). Unfortunately, this was not their year to get through to the final but they were all excellent representatives of Mulberry UTC.