the wellington college year book 2010/2011
the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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the secretary’s report
ow charities
report
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T
he 2011 May reunion was
sparsely attended (75) but
wonderfully enhanced by
four nonagenarian ows
as pictured. Bush fires in
Crowthorne proved to be no barrier to them
(see page 135).
There have been three successful year
group reunions at the Alma Hotel in London.
The years featured were leavers in 1995/1996,
2000/2001 and 2005/2006.
The wcrfc Rugby tour to Australia,
New Zealand and Fiji enjoyed a twenty year
reunion at College in July organised by Angus
MacDonald and Ed Lyddon (see page 135).
The ow Sports Clubs met in February
at Queen’s Club for their annual dinner.
John Goodeve-Docker (Chairman) expertly
organised proceedings and Lord Edward
Faulks made a delightful address.
The Kingsley Society was created for
younger ows, to recognise and nurture the
intense loyalty, goodwill and sense of service
that exists among ows with among its aims
the creation of a Bursary to support a child
for admission to Wellington.
There were four further initiatives which
bonded ows with College during the year. A
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Careers Fair was held in February at which
twenty young ows and a similar number of
current parents gathered in the Newsome
Hall to offer careers advice to Wellingtonians.
Some 300 people attended the event.
Through the autumn a series of career
information talks to Sixth Formers was given
by younger ows and there was a Business day
in March for current Wellingtonians at which
a further group of twelve young ows offered
their expertise. Ed Venables, currently
teaching at College, created a number of
business scenarios which teams of six had
to unravel. The fourth initiative was the
combined ow/College sports dinner in the
Monro Pavilion in March to introduce leavers
to the ow sports clubs.
The secretary continues to make
University visits on behalf of the ow
Society to catch up with ows (graduate
and undergraduate) and this year’s travels
have been to Bristol, Exeter, Loughborough,
Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle and Durham
The ow Society is run by a General
Committee, from whom is drawn an
Executive and Finance committee. The
General Committee has in 2010 been split
into subcommittees with headings Liaison
june 2011
(Debbie Alun-Jones), Finance (Nigel HowardJones), Communications (David Creswell),
Networking (Toby Allen), Sports (John
Goodeve-Docker) Social (Michael Power) and
Overseas (Julia Morgan). These bracketed
members form the E and F committee, chaired
by Charles Baker, which meets quarterly.
A huge amount of work is currently being
undertaken by these committees as the ow
Society links more closely with College and
its own tributaries of Development and
Parents association.
A revamped ow website will be in
operation in 2012 and software has been
purchased jointly with College which will
allow ows to much more easily keep in touch
with each other and with ow activities and
events. ow office communication with ows
will increasingly be by e-mail and electronic
newsletter to save the spiralling expense of
mailing, but of course the Year Book, though it
can be download from the ow website www.
owsociety.com, will continue to be posted.
Details of ow events through the year are
posted on the website.
Please now send the office an e-mail to
owsoc@wellingtoncollege.org.uk to update
or confirm your current e-mail address.
here are three main ow
Society charitable tributaries, the J.L. Bevir Memorial
Trust, the Herbert Old
Wellingtonian Trust and
the flagship trust, the Old Wellingtonian
Society Charitable Trust. The ow Society
believes that this Trust is uniquely positioned to augment Wellington’s charitable
activities by providing support to ows as
part of the broader Wellington community
in a way which can benefit College both directly and indirectly.
The Society has therefore determined to
expand significantly the activity of the ow
Society Charitable Trust by using catalyst
funds of £100,000 from the Society reserves,
by re-allocating income and expenditure
between the Society and College and by
actively seeking donations from ows as part
of the ‘Campaign for Wellington’ led by Sir
Mike Rake ,Vice President.
The initial objectives of the Charitable
Trust are:
1. To provide Bursaries for the
children of ows
2. To help young ows undertake
charitable projects
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3. To offer support to ows in distressed
circumstances and others who are deserving
of charitable help.
4. To support current Wellingtonians with
prizes for academic, artistic, cultural or
sporting achievement
Review of the Trusts as of 9th June 2011
OW Society Charitable Trust
The Charitable Trust has received donations
totalling £15,050 in the academic year to
date, of which £5,000 was a magnificent
gift from the ow Lodge.
The Charitable Trust has made
the following grants:
£6,332.51 for pupil bursaries
£920 for young ows engaged on educational
trips and those undertaking
charitable work
£252 for support of ows
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