On a beautiful spring evening last Thursday, London’s Soho Square bore witness to the renaissance of OC Business Forum (formerly OC City Society) as over 60 OCs from across the generations and business disciplines piled into the House of Barnabas for drinks and canapés. No OC event, in our opinion, is complete without the indomitable […]
High streets are ever changing, all the more so in recent years as rising rents drive out independents and online shopping becomes an increasing part of life. The pandemic caused a seismic shift in their appearance with many household names disappearing forever. In 2021, Mann’s and the Cromwell Cottage Café, two features of the village […]
At the end of December Mike Payne stepped down as OC Liaison, a role he had filled with good humour and boundless energy since it was created in 1997. It is almost impossible to list all Mike brought to a position that had almost no job description when he took it on. The OC Society […]
Jess Robinson (South 2018), who is in her third year as a Mechanical Engineer at the University of Nottingham, talks about how the OC Network helped her find an internship that was right up her street. One of the impacts of the pandemic was that the job market became increasingly restricted. Often the last thing […]
While building his own business development consultancy during the depths of the pandemic, Rupert Lane (1 North 1987) joined a number of professional online communities where he received unprecedented levels of help, collaboration and support from other business owners. Realising that the increased goodwill experienced in everyday life was now spilling into the corporate world, […]
The intention is to expand their concerts across Surrey and to bring diversity of musical and cultural genre to the platform and the audience. They recently coordinated a concert at the Purcell Room in London to showcase music by a Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre, it was performed by Chineke (the first professional orchestra in […]
James Harpur’s The Examined Life is a powerful, poignant and humorous account of school life during the last days of David Emms and the new era of Marc Van Hasselt. Here among bell-tormented corridors and the ‘Crimean beds’ of the dormitories can be found a cast of school characters, customs and events, including a sex […]
The last 18 months have been unprecedented. Thankfully, things now seem to be returning to normal. Lockdowns and restrictions would seem to have re-invigorated (forced?!) many people to rediscover lost form. For a bunch of OCs from the early-mid 1990s, that form may have been the memory of a darting “pick-up-and-go” from the back of […]
Mark Ovington (East 2004) is running an event to aid the recovery of grassroots sport. Taking place on Friday 13th August 2021 at Smith & Wollensky in Covent Garden, the tickets include a complimentary drinks reception, a three course lunch, guest speaker Jason Leonard OBE and auctioneer Jonny Gould. Click SNAP CITY LUNCH LIONS REVIEW […]
After years of contributing to local publications, Mike Walsham (East 1957) has turned his hand to writing a book and his first effort, Monique, published in April 2019 received excellent reviews. Monique is a compelling and fast-paced story of a British agent in the early part of WWII. “A close relative of mine was in […]