Marlburian Club Magazine 2021

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Financial Help for OMs The Marlburian Club’s Charitable Funds exist to assist OMs in various circumstances, as outlined below.

Assistance with College fees Assistance may be made available to ensure that when OMs with children at Marlborough encounter some unexpected severe hardship (sudden redundancy, severe illness or death) their children can complete their education at the College.

Assistance with professional training expenses Nowadays, more students are studying for postgraduate qualifications that often involve periods of study abroad. The Trustees have assisted various OMs training to be doctors by helping towards the costs of overseas medical elective studies; a talented music graduate – who had shown great initiative and determination in his fundraising – was given a grant

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to enable him to undertake specialist training abroad; and a former student was given a grant to take up a United Nations internship.

Assistance with gap-year plans Gap-year pupils are invited to apply for grants to undertake schemes that involve an element of service to those less privileged than themselves. About £5,000 is made available each year for this purpose, with typical grants averaging about £400. Funds come from an endowment made by Judge Edwin Konstam (LI 1884-87).

Beyond the categories of personal grants listed above, the Club – as a charity – has been able to give considerable financial help to the College making it possible to undertake capital improvements, which would otherwise have been beyond its means. The funds have paid for the building of the Sixth Form Social Centre, the Marlburian Club, mobile shelving in the College Archives, and they have contributed to the refurbishment of the Memorial Hall.

Constructive emergency assistance

To apply for assistance from the Charitable Funds, please either send an email to the Trustees at marlburianclub@ marlboroughcollege.org or write to them at:

Help is occasionally given to OMs who fall on hard times and are in need of short-term help in order to get them back on their feet. Such assistance is usually given in the form of a one-off ex-gratia payment for a very specific purpose.

The Marlburian Club Marlborough College Bath Road Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 IPA


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Reflection

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On the Shelves

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pages 103-106

Financial Help for OMs

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page 102

Sports

15min
pages 97-101

Looking Ahead

2min
page 92

Malaysia Review

5min
pages 90-91

Academic Results and Admissions

4min
page 96

Valete

11min
pages 93-95

Master’s Review

6min
pages 88-89

Thank You from the Club

2min
page 87

Professional Groups

1min
page 83

Diary Dates

1min
page 82

Events

20min
pages 74-81

Deaths

2min
page 62

Legendary Wicket

7min
pages 72-73

Engagements, Marriages & Births

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page 61

Letters to the Editor

17min
pages 55-60

Growing a Baby Food Unicorn in China

8min
pages 45-47

Finding Form

6min
pages 48-51

Pandemic Perspectives

6min
pages 42-44

Cycling Pilgrimage

3min
pages 40-41

Mentor for Mutual Gains

10min
pages 32-34

The Forgotten Genius of Gordon Welchman

9min
pages 37-39

unemployedspy

7min
pages 24-26

Salem to Marlborough and Back Again

4min
pages 35-36

A Lifetime of Scientific Invention and Innovation

8min
pages 29-31

A Secular and Godless World?

5min
pages 27-28

OM News

27min
pages 14-23

Contributors

2min
page 5

My House

2min
page 8

I’ll Never Forget

3min
page 9

From the Chair

2min
page 7

This Year

3min
page 6

Upfront

2min
page 4

OM Entrepreneurs

4min
pages 12-13

Totally Inspirational

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pages 10-11
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