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Legal Advice Required

Legal Advice Required

by | Mar 14, 2025 | General, Membership, Press, School History | 0 comments

WE NEED YOUR HELP

The society is currently investigating an issue that has reached the point of requiring a legal response to the problem. Without going into detail, we are looking into the sale of a very expensive artefact belonging to the society, without our permission or consent. The artefact dates back to the 18th century and apart from being the property of the Old Derbeians, it has a tremendous significance to the city of Derby.

Having all but exhausted dialogue and negotiations with the body who have sold the item, we now require a solicitor to represent us in the fight to see the artefact returned to its rightful owner.

To this end, we are calling on our members who may be able to help us with taking the case up on our behalf on a pro bono basis. If you or you know of anyone in the society who can help in what is a sensitive matter, we would welcome contact with us.

If you can help, please contact the Chair of the society by email at chair@oldderbeians.co.uk to discuss the way forward. Thank you for your support in this matter.

Derby Grammar School Virtual Speech Day

by | Jun 23, 2020 | Derby School, General, Press, Social Networking | 0 comments

We are pleased to advertise the forthcoming Virtual Speech Day at Derby Grammar School. Obviously a normal day is out of the question so the school is doing what it can for its students.

The following has been received so please try and tune in if you can:

Dear valued guest,
We are delighted to invite you to our first ever virtual Speech Day event next Friday 3 July at 2pm. 
With the current state of affairs and restrictions on public gatherings, we have decided to do an online event to round both the term and academic year off in a celebratory manner. We will be live streaming our usual speeches, musical performances and award ceremony and would love for you to join us by clicking the following link next Friday afternoon from 1:45pm: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/derby-grammar-school 
 
As you can appreciate, our usual September event involves almost 1000 people congregated at the Riverside venue and unfortunately bookings for mass gatherings are prohibited at present. However, we did not want to miss out on arguably the most significant date in our school calendar and so once restrictions on gatherings begin to lift we hope to supplement our virtual Speech Day with a celebratory event in the Autumn where our prize winners announced on Friday 3rd July can physically receive their prizes and we can bid farewell to our Year 13 pupils in style. 
 
We look forward to you joining us next Friday, and if you have any questions in the meantime please don't hesitate to contact us.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Georgie Lazzari
Head of Marketing and Development

Lesley Reynolds Joins The Committee

Lesley Reynolds Joins The Committee

by | Dec 31, 2019 | Committee Stuff, General, Membership, Press | 0 comments

We are pleased to announce that Lesley Reynolds has agreed to join the committee, once elected, with effect from the AGM in February 2020. She will replace Alan Draper as secretary, who has decided to stand down and not seek reelection in 2020.

 

Lesley was the Deputy Head of Derby Grammar until earlier this year and has since retired. She will be an asset to the committee and the society as a whole and we welcome her knowledge, drive and expertise in so many areas.

 

We thank Alan for all he has done for the society as its secretary, which is sometimes a thankless and time-consuming task. We know he will be spending more time in Spain now and we wish him well and good health.

We are now on Twitter

We are now on Twitter

by | Sep 9, 2019 | General, Have Your Say, Press, Social Networking | 0 comments

Great news - The society is now on Twitter - so for those that can, and indeed want to, you can tweet and follow The Society at @OldDerbeians

We will endeavour to follow relevant twitter sites that bring you local news and information together with interesting articles.

Let your followers know about or site and the latest news and use Twitter to spread the word about us and what we can offer Old Derbeians.