
September 2024 Vlog
Over the past 30 years, since that first Vicky Noon scholarship, we have enabled 230 brilliant young Pakistani scholars to experience the joys of studying in tutorials in colleges at Oxford and Cambridge.
All those of us privileged to have had the experience of quads and courts, halls and junior common rooms, scouts and bedders, butteries and bars, bumps and blues, and so forth, can chime with these words.
And most of all, these prestigious institutions form a special platform that sets us up to take forward our own ideas and hopes, our dreams and ambitions.
Now we want to re-engage with all of you.to hear more about how you have got on after your Noon award.
We want to build up our own club of past Noon Scholars, to build our network, and we want to see what we can collectively put back into the trust to enable it to continue – strengthened - with our mission and purpose.
That is why we will be setting up our own Alumni Association, as part of this year’s 30 th anniversary celebrations, to promote friendship and fellowship among our past scholars. We want to create and support activities that will further the interests of the foundation, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and of course members - who will be driving the association anyway.
The hope is to launch this next year in Pakistan with our first ever alumni reunion at a special event at LUMS in Lahore, and we are busy trying to find exciting speakers that are able to attend. If any past scholars have contacts, or suggestions, please do get in touch with me in the usual way.
We plan to revive our Linked In messages and set up a Facebook page and we will do our best to keep developing our Noon website.
Most of all, we need your support and blessings to make this work.
We cannot become the Rhodes network and certainly not overnight ! They have 125-year old history with more than 50 global scholars a year. We are a handful each year, down from those dizzy heights when we backed 8 or more a year, now three or four given the high overseas tuition fees.
But we do have exciting plans for mentoring schemes, for special events, and regional groupings, for mutual support and sharing of experiences. Let us work together and take these ideas forward. I am sure Vicky Noon would have been very excited at this planned leap forward. !
Paul Flather
Chair
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