Welcome to the New Alleyn Club & Development Team
Introduction I am delighted to introduce the new
Society, which goes from strength to strength as OAs pledge a gift in their will as an effective and enduring way of supporting the College. We have updated the literature and, if you would like to receive a brochure or to talk in confidence, about what a gift, large or small, in your will would mean to a boy at the College, please do get in touch. Development Team I took up my position as Director of Development on 1 September 2011 and am enjoying the opportunity to meet so many dynamic OAs. As some may know, my family have a long history at Dulwich. 100 years ago my grandfather, Ivan Owen Belgrave Shirley, came to the College from Kingston, Jamaica, and, like so many others before and since, Dulwich gave him a remarkable start in life. My particular responsibility is to lead on strategy.
Development team at Dulwich College and to have the chance to explain what we do. We are here to support the continued advancement of the College and to
foster relationships with the Alleyn Club and the wider Dulwich community, engaging with parents, former parents, OAs, Friends of Dulwich College, donors and former staff. We have an ambition to promote the wide variety of opportunities available from OA clubs and societies to mentoring young Alleynians and joining the College history of philanthropy. Within the Dulwich community there is such diversity of expertise and experience which we value and know can be of immense benefit to the College. We are here to encourage links between careers, Archives and all the other departments where the relationship can go both ways, as we support young Alleynians as they go out into the world and work with those who can give back to the College through talks, visits, work experience and so much more. We are responsible for organising and promoting events, which as many of you know, include class and professional reunions as well as concerts, theatre and cultural visits and one off celebrations of specific subjects and individuals. It is vital for us to communicate effectively and well with our wide community and, to this end, we are improving our print and online missives. We are developing our database and records to ensure that we have up-to-date contact details and can communicate with you in the way you prefer, whether by letter or using e-communications. We hope you will visit our new website pages, update your records on the online community forum and ring us to keep us in touch with changes of addresses as well as your news. We have a particular role to promote the College as a charity faithful to our Founder’s mission – to provide an excellent education for bright boys regardless of their parents’ means, so we are also responsible for fundraising. As well as our commitment to bursaries in order to provide support to able boys from less affluent backgrounds, we also need to raise funds to invest in our buildings. There is an urgent need to re-model the science building, which has a condemned wing and outdated facilities. The College has appointed Grimshaw Architects to design a building to place beside the historic Barry building and to be worthy of the pivotal place science holds at the College. Finally, we are working with the Canon Carver
Guy Lawrenson, our Relationship Manager, comes to us from a successful career in higher education, including St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and has worked at University College School too. He is responsible for alumni and parent engagement, including events and communications. Joanne Whaley, who holds the post of Development Data Manager, has been working at Emanuel School since she came to London from Newcastle University’s Development Office. Joanne will ensure that we maintain comprehensive records and are able to communicate effectively with all Old Alleynians, including those young, old and currently lost to us. Finally, with valued support from the Alleyn Club, we have also been able to recruit an Alleyn Club and Development Administrator, Phillipa Straker-Nesbit, to look after the Development Office and ensure that the Alleyn Club has the administrative support it needs all year round. I hope you will see her as your first port of call for any queries, information or advice. With such a team in place, we are ideally positioned to support, invest, fundraise, communicate and develop relationships across the whole Dulwich community. We look forward to being in touch soon.
Sioban Whitney Low Director of Development
5
Made with FlippingBook HTML5