Lusimus . THE RADLEY BROADSHEET
The Rowing Tank under construction
Hugo Rutland Memorial Fund
Rowing Centre
A gift of £25,000 last autumn enabled the Hugo Rutland Memorial Fund (HRMF) to reach the £500,000 mark. The HRMF exists to help the families of current parents who are hit unexpectedly by death, serious illness or injury. Sometimes one parent has to give up work to look after his/her other half; in these circumstances, where two incomes may be lost, the HRMF can step in and pay the fees for their son. The HRMF was set up in memory of Hugo Rutland (1974) who drowned tragically on a family holiday in Portugal one week before his son Archie (2005) was due to start at Radley. Three awards have been made to date.
Phase One of the Rowing Centre project, the building of a Rowing Tank near the Athletics Track, is taking shape rapidly and will be completed within a few months. A full report on this Fund can be found elsewhere in this edition of Lusimus. Nearly £400,000 has been raised for this project from more than 200 Old Radleians and parents who feel passionately about Radley rowing. We extend our deepest gratitude to them all.
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The Rutland family
Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, MBE
Colin Dudgeon – New Director
Lt Dougie Dalzell, MC
David Cameron with Christopher Shale in June 2011
Christopher Shale University Prize
Richard Huntingford, Chairman of the Committee
The Stanley Foundation has again supported The Radley Foundation’s ‘Christopher Shale University Prize’ which offers fee support at University to those young Old Radleians struggling to afford the costs of tertiary education. Five awards have been made in each of the last two years and further applications will be sought from 6.2 leavers during the Easter holidays. Christopher Shale was a former Radley parent who died suddenly at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011; he enjoyed nothing better than watching cricket on the Radley pitches with friends and a glass of wine.
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I believe that, after seven wonderfully rewarding years, 2015 is the right time for me to hand over to a successor and I am delighted that Colin Dudgeon has been appointed to take over as Development Director in August 2015. He is a charming and able person who is highly regarded at Stowe where he has been running their Foundation for the last ten years. He and I will work closely together during a detailed handover, and I am confident he will take The Radley Foundation on to even greater heights in the future. Colin and John Moule, the new Warden, have worked together at Stowe in the past; their renewed partnership will be immensely important to Radley in the years ahead. I offer my full support to them both. In the meantime, there is much to achieve before I retire in August; if there is anything you would like to discuss or complete, do please get in touch. Anthony Robinson Development Director, OR and Former Parent