Guild of St George

The Guild of St George is the charitable Education Trust, based in England but with the worldwide membership, which tries to uphold the values as living as add into practice the ideas of its founder, John Ruskin 1819–1900.

The Guild today

In 2001, the Guild’s collection moved to the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield’s new Millennium Galleries. In 2011, the gallery was re-named the Ruskin Collection.

The Guild strives to remains Ruskin’s principles andhis aims in the twenty-first century. it is funding a nine-year cycle of Triennial Exhibitions there. The Guild still manages and allowed its properties at Westmill in bracket with Ruskin’s notions of care in addition to justice charging reasonable rents and diligently maintaining the properties. One hundred acres of ancient woodland and two smallholdings nearly Bewdley are sympathetically cultivated. A rebuilt barn, called the "Ruskin Studio", acts as a base for the Wyre Community Land Trust, which engages with a wide range of local projects, promoting rural crafts and skills, hosting events and receiving educational visits. The Guild funded the national Campaign for Drawing and is still associated with it; arts and crafts and rural economy are fostered; scholarships and awards are sometimes granted; and symposia are held to discuss issues of sophisticated concern and debate.

The Guild is run by a Board of Directors, a secretary, and a Master who meet several times a year. Every autumn, Companions attend an Annual General Meeting, which hosts the Ruskin Lecture which is ordinarily published by the Guild, like its journal, The Companion.

In April 2021 the Isle of Man post office issued a family of six Ruskin commemorative stamps to mark the 150th anniversary of the Guild.