Like all the other City Livery Companies, the Worshipful Company of Pewterers has four main pillars of activity: Charitable endeavour, assistance to education, support for its trade and profession, and being a convivial and caring social community.

The Worshipful Company of Pewterers 500th Anniversary Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales: 267420.

These first arms depict a representation of the Assumption, recalling the Company's origin as a fraternity in honour of the Virgin Mary.

The Pewterers, like other Livery Companies, found it politic to eliminate religious symbolism during the Reformation; thus, in 1533, new arms were granted, followed forty years later by its crest and supporters.

[dubious – discuss] Crest: A Mount Vert thereon two Arms embowed Proper vested Argent cuffed Gules holding in both Hands erect a Dish of the Third.