Keble Association

Would you like to join the Keble Association? Membership subscriptions are now handled by the College via the Talbot Fund. Joining is easy: simply follow this link (https://anniversary.keble.ox.ac.uk/make-a-donation-3/) and select 'Community - Keble Association' when asked which part of College life you would like to support. Our subscription is £25 per year, but many members donate more than that. Thank you for your support!

***CALLING ALL KEBLE ALUMNI!***

The Keble Association - a charitable trust established 100 years ago by Keble Alumni to support current students - is looking to recruit new trustees to support and shape its vital work.

I first got involved because of some very good career advice. The MD of Shipping at a big investment bank (I work in the shipping industry) told a gathering of young grads that, as our careers progress, we tend to become more and more specialised. Our focus tends to become narrower and narrower. And then suddenly we are asked to take management responsibilities and widen out again. People often struggle. A good way to prepare is to become a trustee of a charity. You get experience of committee meetings, reviewing accounts, setting budgets, etc., etc. Then when that time comes in your career, you will be ready for it.

As it happened, not long after this, I was having a drink with a good friend from Keble who mentioned he had joined the KA as a trustee. This struck me as the perfect charity for me - something I really cared about and felt connected to. Straight away I said to him I would like to be a KA trustee too. 10 years later, I'm still involved and finding it every bit as rewarding as I hoped. And I've got a bunch of skills!

To get involved you just need to join the Keble Association by making a regular donation (no matter how large or small) and be available for two meetings each year (virtual at the moment, but hopefully physical again at some point). If you're interested or have any questions, feel free to message me.

Supporting Keble - Keble College We need your help to ensure that Keble can continue to offer world-class teaching and research, and to enable every Keble student, no matter what their background, to flourish.

Check out the latest edition of The Brick which includes Elena Pierard Manzano’s positive experiences attending a virtual conference, made possible by a study grant from the Keble Association. This is just one of many great projects the KA supported at its virtual June Grants Committee meeting.

Also our thanks to Nela Scholma-Mason for her valuable contribution to the KA over the last five years 🙏

Regular Publications - Keble College The alumni newsletter, the brick, is published in Hilary and Trinity terms. Contributions of articles and photographs of events are always welcome and can be sent to the Alumni and Development Office.

On the train up to Oxford for this term's grants committee meeting. As is common in Michaelmas, the bulk of applications are from postgrads travelling to conferences to present their cutting edge research. Being close to the robotics school, Keble has in recent years developed a large cohort of researchers in AI and machine learning. I know a little about this, but some of the techniques they are developing are completely out of left field. Always staggered by Keble students' bare faced disregard for the constraints of anything that has come before. Thanks to all KA members for your continuing support. Will post more after the meeting.

On the train to Oxford for this term's grants committee meeting and I've just finished reviewing another bumper crop of applications. I am once again stunned by the imagination and resolve of Keble students to explore the farthest reaches of what talented individuals and groups can achieve. These are incredibly smart kids, many of them from less privileged backgrounds, who wouldn't be able to fund these projects without your generous support. Will report more after the meeting.

Vivek Srivastava, Chair, KA Grants Committee

Fantastic Keble Association Grants Committee meeting yesterday with a large number of highly impressive applications. Thanks to the continuing generosity of Keble alumni, we were able to grant most of them. Of particular merit were a Keble medic planning to split her elective between neo-natal units in rural Ethiopia and Malawi, and a geographer who has secured an internship at a conservation programme in the Galapagos Islands. A massive thank you to all alumni who donate and help make these types of worthwhile projects happen. And those who haven't yet signed up, it's never too late to become part of this adventure making machine ;-) Vivek Srivastava

Haven't posted about Keble Association in a while, but on the train to Oxford again for this term's Grants Committee meeting. I am actually chairman of it these days. I have with me another pile of hugely impressive applications from Keble kids planning adventures to far flung parts of the globe, all for highly commendable causes, and postgrads travelling to conferences to deliver cutting edge research. In particular, we have two groups at Keble attached to the Physics dept pushing the frontiers of driverless cars and biomedical imaging. The imagination of these kids knows no boundaries. Hugely deserving. PM me if you are a Keble alum and want to get involved. Will post more after the meeting... Vivek Srivastava

Vivek Srivastava, KA Student Liason Officer reporting. Today, the Keble Association awarded grants to, among others, a geographer going to the Zambia / Zimbabwe border to investigate if a hydroelectricity dam is inadvertently causing water shortages, an a capella singing group doing a tour of US East Coast universities and an archaeologist who brought shards of Mesopotamian ceramics from the Louvre in Paris back to Oxford and made a breakthrough discovery about ancient glazing techniques. We also gave some funding to Keble Arts Week, which is in full swing and bigger and better than ever. So I am going to wander around and have a look at some of it. Over and out.

Vivek Srivastava, KA Student Liason Officer, on the train to Oxford for this term's Keble Association grants commitee meeting and reading the grant applications on the way. We give these grants to "enhance the Oxford Experience" for students, regardless of socio-economic background... and my word do they think of imaginative ways of doing that! Will report more after the meeting.

Booking is now open for the Keble Association's 80th London Dinner. A warm invitation is extended to all Old Members. Please download a booking form here:https://www.keble.net/file/events-from-2016-onwards/KA-London-Dinner-Leaflet-2016.pdf

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KA AGM and Summer Dinner. Sunday 4 July, in College. AGM at 4.15, Dinner 7.30. Please book via Alumni and Development Office.