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ur ONL community continues to thrive and grow, and a range of successful alumnae and fundraising events have taken place in the 2017-18 academic year. An exciting development this year has been the launch of ONL Connect – an online platform exclusively for ONLs, enabling them to find and reconnect with each other for social and networking purposes. We now have nearly 1,000 ONLs who have signed up to the platform, the majority of whom are happy to help in terms of mentoring and career advice. Our Facebook group continues to grow with over 2,300 ONL “Friends”. ONLs events this year have included a number of reunions. In May we welcomed back over 200 former students from the Classes of 2008, 1998, 1988 and 1978. We were also delighted to host the 50 Year Reunion for the Class of 1967. These events were full of reminiscences and renewed friendships. In June, we held our inaugural “Women in the Workplace” event which focussed on life as a working woman in the 21st Century. This was attended by ONLs of all age groups and across all industry sectors.
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Our overseas and regional ONL groups continue to flourish with meetings being held in the UK and across the globe. In May, 25 ONLs attended at drinks party at the Harvard Club in New York, kindly hosted by ONL Sharmila Sani. Exciting plans for the future include a fundraising campaign for an Innovation Centre for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) and we are talking to supporters, parents and friends about the School’s future master plan; we are delighted and extremely grateful for donations received to date. We will update the School community on the Capital Campaign in the months ahead, once planning is agreed and finalised, and are looking forward to the whole of the NLCS community getting behind the largest
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fundraising campaign since the School was founded 170 years ago. Bursaries hold a very special place at North London. The School was built on generosity and the belief that education has the power to transform lives. To mark the extraordinary contribution of Bernice McCabe OBE to North London over her twenty years of Headship (1997-2017), the School named the Bursary Fund in her honour. This year, we continued to raise much-needed funds for bursaries at the School, and we had our most successful Year 13 leavers’ deposits campaign for bursaries, with an anonymous gift of £100,000. To further boost bursary funds, in May we hosted a stimulating ‘Question Time’ style evening in the Performing Arts Centre with proceeds from ticket
