The OCRFC Centenary approaches! Arrangements for the dinner (& dance) at Twickenham on Saturday 14th September 2019 proceed apace and tables are selling fast. The ticket price includes champagne reception, three-course meal and wine, live music, entertainers and more. Various kind and generous sponsors are offering to help with various bits, but of course if […]
This month marks 100 years since Cranleigh School played their first hockey match. We look at the highs and lows of the last century. Although it may upset the rugby fraternity, the first game of hockey played by Cranleigh pre-dates the arrival of rugby by almost a decade. The Cranleighan reported in 1906 that the School beat […]
The OCHC have continued their run of recent successes with the men’s 1st XI gaining promotion to the National League for the first time, as well as reaching the quarter-final of the EH Cup after beating a heavily-funded Old Georgians side on the way in front of a bumper crowd at Thames Ditton. The club […]
NABIL NAHAR ART COMMISSION £4000 (including expenses) offered to successful applicant Nabil Nahar OC died tragically young in 2018 aged 45. At School his interests lay in the arts and as a businessman he acted as an art broker, running his own art gallery in Kuala Lumpa. His OC friends came up with idea of […]
OCs Nat MacAleese (left) and Angus Young (right), (both Loveday 2009-2014), came back to School to deliver this term’s Tom Avery Lecture. Having participated in various adventures based on bicycles build for one, two and even three, Nat and Angus, together with two other university friends decided to challenge an established Canadian team to a […]
Over the years some of our most accomplished school alumni have kindly agreed to provide mentoring assistance to selected Old Cranleighans who are at an early stage of their careers. Those who signed up for this include an impressive range of businessmen, entrepreneurs, journalists, bankers, doctors, judges and a variety of professionals involved in the […]
It’s funny how life sometimes has other ideas for you, despite you thinking you’re generally in charge. My ‘career’ to date (I still don’t feel old or responsible enough to consider that I actually have one) has primarily been in digital design and user experience; basically, designing websites and mobile apps. To be honest, I […]
Alastair Callender (Loveday, 1999-2004) shares his experiences in the world of superyacht charter ‘I became determined to work in the superyacht industry thanks to attending a ‘Careers Evening’ in my Upper Fifth year at Cranleigh.’ Following A levels at Cranleigh, Alastair graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Boat Design from Coventry University. He […]
2019 marks the Centenary of The Old Cranleighan Rugby Football Club. Anyone with a love of OC Rugby, is warmly invited to Twickenham Stadium, on Saturday 14th September 2019, for a Gala Dinner Dance in The Spirit of Rugby Suite. Ever since the very first match on 4th October 1919, the club has enjoyed unrivalled […]
Alan (1 North, 1970-1975) is the winner of the SPi (Street Photography International) Awards 2018. Entries were received from 137 countries so his win is all the more impressive. Here he tells us more about how he came to make photography his living. “I came to Cranleigh from Windlesham House School – a very […]