The Wellington Community programme
As the Wellington Community team, our aim is to provide a meaningful programme of cultural, social, business, careers and educational events and activities for everyone in the Community. We aim to create a programme that helps us come together to reinforce, support and build the special and unique relationship that we all have with Wellington College and with one another.
6:30pm, Pink Pavilion
Join us for a relaxed evening to exchange your excess seedlings, cuttings, and plants, and take home something new for free! Everyone welcome.
Cheese and wine to enjoy while you swap.
To register or for more information please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
7:30pm, Combermere Quad
Jeff Oakes is retiring after 41 years teaching at Wellington College, as a teacher of woodwind and also in the last 10 years as Conductor of the Concert Band. To mark his retirement and to say farewell, we would like to invite you to Eve of Speech Day on Friday 22nd of May in the Upper Combermere Quad. More specifically, if you played in the Concert Band or were taught by Jeff, Simon Williamson (Director of Arts and Music) would like to invite you to join in with the Concert Band for one or two items with a rehearsal at 6 pm on the day.
For more information please get in touch: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
10:00am, Wellington College
We welcome pupils, parents and staff to celebrate Speech Day 2019 with us in the iconic Wellington Big Top. Enjoy a showcase event of the year’s activities, prize giving’s and speeches from the College community. The annual house picnics on Turf will take place from 12.30 onwards, along with an assortment of outdoor events including the Cavalry Charge, Gun Run, Exhibitions and full school Call Over.
Two e-tickets will be automatically issued per pupil with a very small number of additional e-tickets available to book closer to the event should families require more than their automatic allocation.
The additional tickets will be bookable on a first come, first served basis on the Forthcoming Events page on the main Wellington College website.
Book your place »The Wellington Chapel
10:20am, Paddington, London
Two hundred years ago the Paddington area consisted of a few ancient villages. With the advent of the commuter ‘Shillibeer’ omnibus in 1829, the area was transformed and urbanised. Today another transformation has taken place, with a regeneration project that started 20 years ago. Join me for a walk to explore the old and new Paddington famous for its transport links as well as a certain Bear.
Meeting Place: Chapel Road exit of Edgware Road Underground station using the Metropolitan/Circle/District Lines at 10.30am
NB – Edgware Road Bakerloo line exit is a short walk to Chapel Street
The walk will take 2 hours maximum. It will go ahead whatever the weather. Price £14 per person.
Book your place »7:00pm, Wellington College
Wellington College Head Gardener, Mark Dodd, will take us on a tour of the College gardens and share fascinating insights including some of the delights and challenges of looking after this 440-acre site. Mark is a highly experienced gardener with over 23 years of experience working not only at Wellington but as Head of Gardens at Benenden and Epsom College as well as in Private estates throughout the country, including Scotland and Devon. In this talk he will provide insight into a side of College life that is unknown to the majority. He will tell us about how his team manages the huge site complete with its lawns, heathland, hedgehogs, squirrels, adders – and all those leaves! There are 18.5 million of them on the Kilometre alone!
Please wear suitable footwear. As previous tours have been so successful, we have added two dates this year, spaces are limited to 15 people per day so please be quick to secure your place.
To register please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
6:00pm, The Hospital Club, London
Formally launched in 2014, Career Opportunity Groups were set up to provide support and networking opportunities for OWs (young and old) in whatever their chosen career.
We are thrilled to involve more members of the Wellington Community and now invite parents to join all our career networking events. This drinks reception is a gathering of all from the Wellington Community in the fields related to the Creative industries, anything from an actor to a fashion designer or perhaps a photographer. Whatever your role in the creative arts industry this is the event for you! Our sixth form students who attend these events find them invaluable, and we hope all from our Community who are interested in or working in these fields will join us.
Book your place »7:00pm, Wellington College
Wellington College Head Gardener, Mark Dodd, will take us on a tour of the College gardens and share fascinating insights including some of the delights and challenges of looking after this 440-acre site. Mark is a highly experienced gardener with over 23 years of experience working not only at Wellington but as Head of Gardens at Benenden and Epsom College as well as in Private estates throughout the country, including Scotland and Devon. In this talk he will provide insight into a side of College life that is unknown to the majority. He will tell us about how his team manages the huge site complete with its lawns, heathland, hedgehogs, squirrels, adders – and all those leaves! There are 18.5 million of them on the Kilometre alone!
Please wear suitable footwear. As previous tours have been so successful, we have added two dates this year, spaces are limited to 15 people per day so please be quick to secure your place.
To register please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
6:30pm, Robin Dyer Sports Centre
We invite the Wellington Community to join us in celebrating the official opening of the Robin Dyer Sports Centre.
Enjoy a glass of fizz while watching some of our talented students display their cricket, tennis and netball skills in a series of masterclass sessions delivered by our in-house team and special guests.
The evening will culminate in a Welly Super League Netball exhibition match, which should prove to be a thrilling end to an exciting evening of sport in our new state of the art sports centre.
To register or for more information please visit: www.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/forthcoming-events
Book your place »11:00am, Concert Room
Join the informal and fun Wellington Parent Singers group, led by Simon Williamson, designed for singers of all abilities and covering a range of music from West Side Story to choral classics. Having launched the parent singers last year, we are now 20 members strong and welcome many more to join. Come along and give it a try!
To register or for more information please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
7:30pm, Linguistic Room, The Mallinson Library
Come and join this informal group to discuss the chosen book over some refreshments with our wonderful head librarian, Lucy Atherton, and fellow members of the Wellington Community.
The chosen book for this book club meeting will be ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ by Celeste Ng.
To register or for more information please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
11:00am, Concert Room
Join the informal and fun Wellington Parent Singers group, led by Simon Williamson, designed for singers of all abilities and covering a range of music from West Side Story to choral classics. Having launched the parent singers last year, we are now 20 members strong and welcome many more to join. Come along and give it a try!
To register or for more information please contact: community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
12:15pm, Wellington College
Please join the third form, OWs and energetic members of staff for the walk/run from Stratfield Saye to Wellington College.
This 13-mile route passes through spectacular countryside, and is by permission of His grace the Duke of Wellington. We start at the Duke’s seat, Stratfield Saye, and will walk or run from there through his private estate, before joining an ancient footpath, the ‘Devil’s Highway’. There will be prizes for the fastest parent/OW, but the less ambitious can stop at one of the three pubs/tearooms en route.
Do come and join us (and your children if you are a parent/relative/friend of a child in the third form, for whom the event is strongly recommended as it will give them an understanding of Wellington’s history, and links to Waterloo/the family of the First Duke). It is always a wonderful event.
Registration is at 12:15–12:45 in the Driver Lecture Room; we will leave Wellington after a brief chapel service. The walk/run will begin just after 14:00, with the first runners appearing at Great School at approximately 15:30, while walkers and tea shop enthusiasts will arrive between 17:30 and 19:00. It will be possible to take taxis back early in the route if 13 miles is too much; the Tally Ho pub in Eversley is approx. 7.5 miles from the start, and there will be a minibus taking parents and pupils back from the Tally Ho until 17:30.
Tickets cost £20.00 per head for parents and OWs.
Book your place »10:00am, The Springs Golf Club, Wallingford
Teams will consist of four players, at least two of which must be members of the Wellington Community. There will be three separate 6-hole competitions over the 18-hole course, with a different format for each competition.
Holes 1-6: WALTZ
Holes 7-12: AM-AM Best 2 from 4
Holes 13-18: Texas Scramble
The overall winner will be determined by a 3-team. 1 shot each playoff at approximately 5:45pm and there will also be ‘Nearest the Pin’ and ‘Spot Prizes’ to play for.
Tee times will be between 10:44am and 1:00pm. Please arrive at The Springs from 10:00am for brunch. A buffet will be served on completion of play.
The cost to enter will be £250 per team, which will include Green Fees, food on arrival and after play and prizes.
To register please contact: Ashley Pheasant, Head of Golf at Darwin Escapes:
Tel: 07976223963
From 7:00 pm
The Duke of Sussex, London
We invite all 1994 leavers to reunite and reminisce with one another at the Duke of Sussex close to Waterloo. Drinks and a light buffet will be available from 7.00 pm to celebrate this wonderful milestone. Please help spread the word to ensure we can get as many of the 1994 class together!
Tickets cost £15 each and guests are very welcome.
Book your place »7:00pm, The London Cocktail Club, 4 Great Portland St, London, W1W 8QJ
A 10th anniversary gathering for the leavers of 2009. Reunite and reminisce with one another in a private area of the London Cocktail Club in Oxford Circus. Drinks will be available from 7.00pm to celebrate this wonderful milestone. Please help spread the word to ensure we can get as many of the 2009 class back together.
Tickets are £15 and guests are very welcome.
Registration will open shortly
12:30pm, Wellington College
A 50th anniversary gathering for the leavers of 1969.
Lunch will be served at 1.15pm and afterwards there will be a chance to explore College, watch sport, and take a walk down memory lane. At 4.00pm tea will be served.
There have been one or two changes since the 60s; running water, showers, menus and girls!
Partners and guests welcome. Tickets £15 and places are limited.
Registration will open shortly.