St. Edmund’s College Alumni Association Annual General Meeting 6th
June 2024
President & Alumni Officer Report
Alumni & Old Edmundian Network
• Museum Audit
o D Kay and M Mason have undertaken a full audit of the Museum Artefacts.
• Updated Memorandum of Understanding
o An updated copy is available to Oes.
• Copies of Pugin drawings
o Copies have been made and they will be displayed in due course.
• St Hughs Chapel Organ
o We have a New Organ donated by The Sisters of Provenance
• Carry on St Edmund’s
o Sent out to everyone via Toucan Tech – 71.9% of all recipients opened.
• Notice Boards
o Awaiting update from C Upton
• Updated Database
o Continually updating and looking for new ways to attract OEs to sign up to database
o Outreach to leavers on their last day of term – assembly with QR code, step by step process of how to sign up and talk to them about the recent events.
Previous Events
• St Edmund’s Sunday back to nearest Sunday to 16th November and Mass back to Latin
o Back to a more informal event.
• Hong Kong Trip
o Reception drinks paid for Hong Kong trip
o Turn out of around 45 – we did invite current parents and some agents as there were not many individuals on the database that we were allowed to contact permissions wise.
• London Bus
o 54 of he 80 signed up attended
o QR was available for those who hadn’t already signed up to the alumni network.
o Drink token system went well.
o Photos will be put in the next APF.
Committee Member Updates
• 2 New Committee Members
o Fionnuala Marshall and Kishan Patel have been elected to the committee.
• Tim Fuller. RIP.
o A great loss to the committee on which he served for over 20 years.
o A very moving Memorial was held in the College Chapel
Upcoming Events
• Proposed Grand Tour 2025
o On going discussions to see if this will be viable.
o Limited database could cause issues – HK trip took a lot of work to get the numbers up.