We are looking for enthusiastic new Committee Members from former students of the School of any era, but especially perhaps those who attended at the Grove Road site, to fill the following positions:
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY. This role currently requires a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Google Drive in order to maintain simple membership records for approximately 470 members, and also Mailchimp for distributing occasional email communications to members.
WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR. The website is currently maintained using WordPress, so some knowledge of this software is essential, although we are open to ideas for re-design using different software if you can offer your own suggestions. Familiarity with photo- and video-editing software will also be a great advantage, along with an eye for graphic design. Basic training will be provided during a handover period of several months if that is helpful. Vision and imagination for taking the OBA forward are what we would value most.
It is not necessary for you to be living in Bury St Edmunds. Committee meetings take place on Zoom roughly every two months, with a few of us meeting at the school.
If you are interested, please contact us using the form below, and we will be very happy to discuss it with you. Thank you in advance!
I am interested in offering my services on the OBA Committee – please contact me to discuss how I might be able to help.
A message from the Committee:
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT to read this important piece of admin.
We use Mailchimp to send out emails to almost 400 email addresses we hold for our members. We have recently been checking our membership list to try to ensure that all of the email addresses we hold are up to date. We have tried to contact a number of members whose email addresses have reported errors when we have attempted to send emails recently. We are grateful to those members who responded to make sure that we can stay in contact.
HOWEVER, we have not been successful in following up all of these cases as the email address (no longer working) is the only means we had of contacting them, or we have tried sending a letter but still had no response. Unfortunately, therefore, a number of names have had to be suspended from the list.
If you didn’t receive our email Newsletters in January or June 2024, this could be the reason. If so, and you would like to continue as a member of the OBA, please let us know as soon as possible by sending us a message so that we can put things right. If you haven’t yet joined us, we’d love to welcome you – you can sign up here.
Thank you.
When the School moved from the Vinefields to its present home in Grove Road in 1972 to become King Edward VI Upper School (later just King Edward VI School), it was certainly the beginning of a new era. But its historical ties remained and recent school leavers are just as much “Old Burians” as those who left in earlier years. The Old Burians’ Association (started over 200 years ago) continues in existence and we are keen to see it thrive, but for this we need younger members to continue joining us. We’ll be honest – this is getting increasingly difficult, so we’re trying something new. We’re offering an introductory
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in return for an article or story that we can publish. Ideally, you’d tell us something about yourself, but it could be a memory from schooldays, something you’ve done since leaving school, your career, a poem or piece of artwork. We’re also keen to receive photographs or memorabilia from your schooldays that we can add to our archive.
As an introductory member, you’ll have access to a copy of the current “Old Burian” magazine as well as our occasional e-mail Newsletters for the next 12 months. We hope you will then want to continue as a member. For a modest subscription of £10 a year, you can be part of a community and stay in touch with what some of your contemporaries (and others) have done since leaving the school, and what they are doing now. And, of course, if you would like to be involved and help us run the Association by giving some time (an hour or two a month) we would be delighted to have you on board.
Interested? Then please click here for more details.