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Old Farnhamians' Association |
The 400 Trust
About the Trust
The Old Farnhamian Associations',
together with members and staff of the College, decided in 1978 to celebrate
the 400th anniversary by establishing a Farnham 400 Trust Fund with four
purposes in mind:
1. to establish an annual or otherwise
periodic lecture (to be known as "the Farnham Lecture") for the
benefit of the residents of Farnham and for the advancement of education and
learning generally on such subjects as the Trust committee shall decide.
2. to collect and preserve documents
and information relating to the history of
3. to engage in and commission
research into the history of
4. to pay expenses for students,
ex–students, staff or ex–staff of Farnham Grammar School or Farnham College in
respect of educational study approved by the Trustees.
About the Farnham Lectures
The first Farnham Lecture, Talking
Music, was held in 1988 and took
the form of a 'conversation' between Jeffrey Tate and Alan Fluck.
You
can listen to this lecture by clicking here.
Subsequent lectures with other
distinguished former pupils and students amongst the speakers have been –
1989 Francis Tibbalds Improving Towns and Cities
1990 Barry Hall Met in
1991 John Matthews Getting Sporting Fit
1993 Paul Lankester Waste : Everybodys Business –
But a Local Issue
1994 David Williams Best Local Policing for Best
Value for Money
1995 James Mates The Future of Television News
1996 The Rt Revd John Gladwin, Bishop of
1997
Jeremy Hardy Living on One's Wits
1998 Jonathon Porritt Education for Sustainability
1999 Patrick Blower A Day in the Life of a
Political Cartoonist
2000 Millennium Lecture Roy Lancaster Travels of a Plantsman
2001 Farnham Time Team
by Archaeologist, David Graham
2002 The Eden Project
by Paul Travers
2003 Politics, People and
Principles by the Rt Hon Viginia Bottomley MP
2004 Newspapers Today
by Sir Ray Tindle CBE on 23rd September 2004 at
2005 Global Warming by Dr Geoff Jenkins on 28th
September 2005 at
2006 2012 Olympic Bid by Simon Clegg CBE
on 17 October, 2006
2007 Leonard Cheshire Disability by Brian Dutton
CBE on 21 November 2007
2008 Cardiac Rehabiltiation by Dr Hugh Bethell
2009
2010 Balancing the Scales by David Victor-Smith
2011
2012 A Musical Phenomenon by Caroline Redman
Lusher
2015 A personal view of education by Sir Andrew
Carter