Ampleforth Society AGM
Notice is given that the AGM of the 148th Ampleforth Society will be held on Thursday 12 December 2024 at Ampleforth College. Please download the document to read the AGM Agenda and final accounts.
Notice is given that the AGM of the 148th Ampleforth Society will be held on Thursday 12 December 2024 at Ampleforth College. Please download the document to read the AGM Agenda and final accounts.
Report by Matt Rigg (T06)
After the FA Cup, the oldest knock-out competition in British Football is The Arthur Dunn Cup. It carries the name of Old Etonian Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn (1860-1902). In 1901 not long before he died suddenly at the age of just forty-two, Dunn had put forward the idea of an Old Boys cup competition, no doubt mindful that the dominance of the Public Schools in the FA Cup had been broken, and the Arthur Dunn Cup was born in 1903 as a lasting memorial.
Report by Nick Hughes (C90)
On Saturday 28th September, for an event organised by the Old Amplefordian Rugby Football Club, 150 OAs descended upon the Galtres Community Centre in Easingwold to celebrate 4 decades of rugby excellence at Ampleforth College from 1963-2003. John and Pauline Willcox were guests of honour and were joined by several fellow coaches including Frank Booth, Geoff and Carol Thurman, Keith and Pat Elliot, Andrew and Gill Hollins, John and Celia Allcott, Paul and Cath Brennan, Dave and Liz Callighan, Chris Belsom and Simon Howard.
Dear Members, I want to offer a very warm welcome to our newest Society members, the College Leavers from the class of 2024 and the new parents at the College who have now joined our ranks.
The OARFC will celebrate Four Decades of Rugby Excellence at Ampleforth on Saturday 28 September at a lunch in Easingwold.
On Tuesday 25 June, 14 Old Amplefordians gathered in New York for a wonderful dinner with Fr Wulstan Peterburs, Chair of the Abbey Trust, and Emma Craig, Head of Development at Ampleforth College.
Friday 21 June saw the Ampleforth Society cohost, alongside representatives from Ampleforth College and Ampleforth Abbey, the liveliest drinks reception at El Invernadero de Los Penotes, Madrid. Around 70 Old Amplefordians, former, current and prospective parents and former Gilling Castle students joined together to celebrate their connections to Ampleforth, reunite friendships and catch up on news from the valley.
The sun shone in the Pyrenees as the Ampleforth charter flight landed in Lourdes airport for the 2024 Ampleforth Lourdes Pilgrimage. This year 270 pilgrims joined together at the shrine for a very happy and meaningful week together, following a brilliant Stage the week before for the more hardcore “back-to-backers” who undertook a week’s service to the wider Lourdes Hospitalite in the run up to the main event.
Since the 1980s a steady stream of boys and girls have joined Ampleforth from Hong Kong, and more recently mainland China too (including next year’s Deputy Head Monitor, Anastasia).
The sun may not have shone all weekend, but Exhibition 2024 was bright and cheerful, with the whole school community in fine spirits across the weekend. Old Amplefordians, Parents and families were all part of this celebration of the school, in a year that has gone from success to success for Ampleforth. At the heart of it were the boys and girls themselves, it was a celebration of them.
We are thrilled to announce that Robert Rigby (T79) has been elected the new Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Westminster.
The Ampleforth Society Spring and Summer social season is well underway and kicked off in Cirencester with Mass & Dinner in the Cotswolds on the 25 April.
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