We spoke to AI entrepreneur Jake Subba Row (East 2018) about the road that lead him to setting a new business utilising AI to help the world of real estate. “At the core of my venture, OKII, we give real estate firms a blueprint towards embracing AI. Not only to save time but to drive […]
This Spring Max Foster (Cubitt 2020) walked from Lands End to John 0’Groats – on his own. He undertook the challenge in honour of his grandfather who died from oesophageal cancer 10 years ago. By completing his long held goal to solo hike the 1,231 miles, which took 65 days, he raised (thus far) £25,365.75 […]
On Saturday 27th April Hector Berry (Loveday 2018) set out at 4am in Marlow and walked/ran 100km to reach Putney at 9pm. Many Old Cranleighans turned up to support him along the way as he struggled with knee pain and shin splints. Pictured above Hector with OCs Jake Subba Row, Harry Gough, Finn Edwards , […]
During her time at Cranleigh Rachel Crampton (West 2004) made friends for life. As a group they are in touch on at least a weekly basis although Rachel now lives in New South Wales, Australia. She admits it is hard being so far away from family and friends, especially as many of them now have […]
Dr Simon Young is the embodiment of the Cranleigh ethos: polymath, scientist, culture vulture, adventurer and one of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet — a booming beard of upbeat cheerfulness. If you grew up watching television in the 1980s you’ll have some inkling of the power of a hairyfaced enthusiast to bring alive the […]
Alex Winch (Cubitt 2007) and his business partner Sam Fiddian-Green have created the hugely popular Hilltop Kitchen in between Hascombe and Godalming in the Surrey Hills When Covid struck, Alex and his wife returned from Australia to Surrey to live with his parents, around the same time as his childhood friend Sam finished a stint […]
In 1973 Captain Dennis Wareham, who was Bursar at Cranleigh between 1956 and 1968, donated a music prize in memory of Helen Wareham, his wife of over four decades, who had died the previous year. The conditions of the prize were that it be awarded to the winner of an annual competition in which all […]
Many OCs have stories to tell, of their experience in work, of tragic moments, celebrations, and great achievements. Colin Reed’s (West 1981) story contains all these. By turning adversity into an achievement that is changing the way Parkinson’s disease is treated across the world and perceived by setting up a charity that treats thousands of […]
In May Graham Coult and Charles Henderson (both Cubitt 1993) will be cycling from the site of a former WW2 POW camp, Stalag18A in Wolfsberg, Austria to Odessa (or much more likely close to the border of Ukraine and back to Budapest). Their route follows that taken by Graham’s grandfather who escaped from a POW […]
Ali Pritchard (North 2008), the founder & Artistic / Executive Director of Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been named as in the 100 most influential people in theatre in the UK. He describes himself as the bane of most of his teachers lives, he is dyslexic and neurodivergent and was often the class clown. He […]