Reed’s Yellow Pages

Education

CJA Educational Consultancy educationchoices magazine.com

Education Choices is an informed and unbiased magazine that explores the educational choices available to children, families and young people in the UK and across the globe.

Chloe Abbott (Blathwayt 1992)

Property

Properly (Real Estate Group Ltd) weareproperly.com

Properly is an office search consultancy based in London. We help businesses find the right flexible solution at the right time and the right price by combining powerful tech with a human touch.

Nick Patterson (Bristowe 2004)

Technology Staffing & Recruitment

InfraView infraview.co.uk

Helping technology leaders recruit and grow the best teams in the Cloud and IT Infrastructure Solution Provider channel whilst delivering exceptional service to candidates looking to build their careers. We are looking to grow the team so get in touch!

Tim Davey (Mullens 1994)

Events

Clownfish Events clownfishevents.com

Clownfish Events is the best creative event management company in the UK.

Matt Turner (Mullens 2008)

Sport and Leisure

The Bike Club thebikeclub.co.uk

Bike Club is a kids bike subscription service. We ensure your child always has the perfect-sized bike as you can exchange it at anytime. Choose between new and preloved bikes, all of them are conveniently delivered and picked up from your door.

Chris Tong (Capel 1993)

Photography

Andy Billman Photography andy-billman.com

Andy Billman is a London-based photographer with a curiosity for built environments and the spaces we find ourselves in.

Andy Billman (Blathwayt 2010)

Entertainment

Tenors Unlimited tenorsunlimited.com

‘The Ratpack of Opera’! In addition to their numerous concerts, festivals and media appearances, Tenors Un Limited are also available to book for a range of corporate and private events.

Jem Sharples (Bristowe 1969)

Entertainment

The Drunken Jockeys thedrunkenjockeys.co.uk

We believe in outstanding cocktails and impeccable service by creating one-of- a-kind mobile bars that transport guests to a world of fun with a great drink in hand.

Will Isaacs (Bristowe 2012), Will Burchill (Mullens 2012), Zach Goodall (Blathwayt 2012)

Jewellery

Mini Memento minimemento.co.uk

Personalised jewellery, specialising in using fingerprints, handprints, footprints and even paw prints.

Tanya Kelway (née Syrad) (Capel 2003)

Illustration, Design, Art

Georgina Trestler Art & Design georginatrestler.com

Specialised branding and illustration.

Georgina Trestler (née Alexander) (Bristowe 2003)

Executive Coaching

Live & Clicking jackwrevell.com

Confidence and marketing coach.

Jack Revell (Mullens 2008)

Tutoring

MB Tutoring +44 7930 835741

Offering 11+ preparation, GCSE Maths & Science Tuition.

Maddie Barrow (Bristowe 2016)

If would like to feature in our next Yellow Pages listing, contact: thereeder@reeds.surrey.sch.uk

If you are looking for a spectacular way to impress clients, friends or just your family, the Reed’s School Corps of Drums are available to perform at events and functions.

Email Sharmaine at: smatthews@reeds.surrey.sch.uk

Overseas ORs

Over the last 18 months, the world has felt a bigger place with lockdown and restricted travel. However, as things begin to open up, we’d like to reintroduce you to our OR Overseas Ambassadors and thank them for agreeing to help bring us closer together. Do reach out if you live in, are moving to or visiting these regions/countries.

If you would like to get in contact with one of our OR Overseas Ambassadors (see over) or offer to be one yourself, please contact Sharmaine smatthews@reeds.surrey.sch.uk

ORs by continent Africa Asia Australasia Europe (excl. UK) Middle East North America Central & South America 17 137 83 187 17 115 2 32

77

1

1 3

1

1

1

Meet our OR Overseas Ambassadors

Australia/East Coast

Darren Paterson (Bristowe 1985)

Australia/West Coast

Max Reinhardt (Bristowe 2000)

USA/Washington State

Mark Russell (Blathwayt 1997)

USA/California

Niall Battson (Blathwayt 1996)

USA/California

Giles House (Capel 2000)

Dubai

Holly Woolston Castro (Blathwayt 2007)

Dubai Jonty Oldreive (Mullens 2009)

Singapore James Miles (Blathwayt 1999)

Hong Kong Brian Cheung (Bristowe 1987)

Taiwan Kevin Liu (Blathwayt 2002)

Malaysia Attila Emam (Bristowe 1988)

OR Reunion in Dubai

Jonty Oldreive (Mullens 2009) & Nick Whiteford (Capel 2009)

We are delighted when Jonty and Nick offered to host an OR Dubai reunion. A perfectly formed ‘rule of 6’ gathered at the Lah Lah Restaurant & Bar and, by all accounts, a fun night was had by all:

Holly Woolston Castro (Blathwayt

2007), Graham Tooby (Bristowe 1991), Michael Makdisi (Capel 1990) and Jehad ‘James’ Makdisi (Capel 1994).

An OR’s perspective on becoming an expat in the 1950s

Jim Williams (Capel 1959)

‘Home is where the heart is’…so said Gaius Plinius Secundus approximately 2000 years ago. But the question needs to be asked: how many ‘homes’ do we have? Ancestral, spiritual, emotional, financial, geographical, familial, etc. Being born in Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire in 1942 during the height of the Second World War and moving back to London in 1946, means that I am undoubtedly a ‘Pom’, even though I have resided in South Africa now for almost 50 years!

To say that life wasn’t easy in a run down house, in a usually cold, rainy and foggy environment is a huge understatement but, for all its faults, it was still home, where my mum and dad lived and loved me. However, things change as we get older, when we see and want a broader life. Back in the 1950s, the challenge for me, and several of my OR friends, to better ourselves and to seek new opportunities often meant the option of becoming an expat loomed large.

However, the pursuit of greener pastures and greater adventures, with the hope of more financially rewarding outcomes, came at a cost. Inevitably, we gave up the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, comfort zone for initial discomfort and friends and relationships were sometimes exchanged for work colleagues.

Then there were all the other issues we hadn’t even considered but which needed to be: renouncing UK citizenship, adopting local customs, being fluent in another language, getting on the voter’s roll, being a minority race immigrant and getting caught up in completely new political ideologies to name a few. Then one’s legal status got called into question sometimes along with residential insecurity. Passports, wills and property ownership all ran the gauntlet of other countries’ jurisdictions and bureaucracies. Even now, tax and wealth positions continue to be under scrutiny as are pensions and investments with the suspicion that you might just be salting away a nest-egg somewhere and therefore guilty of an offence.

Sadly, your local and international loyalties get tested with sporting activities and old overseas contacts get fewer as folk pass on. Memories of important milestones in our ‘pre-expat’ situation…boarding school, Cobham, first loves…start to fade. Then our own new generation of families have their lives to lead and their ‘world’ to explore, thus starting the process all over again!

Inevitably one often asks oneself questions: I wonder what I would have finished up doing if I hadn’t left the UK. Should I have gone back? Does it matter where we are buried and/or cremated? For me, home is where I’m warm and the sun shines (literally and figuratively) and where I am loved and valued. Would I have changed anything, I very much doubt it!