I’m sure it’s still common in Cambridge to refer to the biting winds coming straight off the Urals: it’s invariably colder than in London and I now remember to wear an extra layer when coming back to College! Winter weather aside, though, what are we to make of the metaphorical winds of change flowing from current world events? Are we witnessing a seismic shift in geo-politics? Will 2025 become a year that history records for reasons we can’t yet assess?
THA Secretary’s Report
Posted:
28 May 2025
View over Cardiff bay
In such unsettled times, many of us find belief and comfort in continuity, and Trinity Hall offers one such thread of steady endurance. This year’s 675th Anniversary is an opportunity to understand how the College has survived through past episodes of both serenity and turbulence and how we can share in securing its future. While most of those 675 years of alumni can only be reached through archives – and then only those who left records – we do hope to engage as many of our current members as possible in this anniversary year. The Association is therefore delighted to be working with the College to host a discussion panel at September’s THA AGM to explore the story of the College and touch on various themes around its context, its purpose and its people – themes still fundamental to College life today. Save the Date: THA AGM and Cambridge Dinner Saturday 27 September 2025.
Anniversaries are a brilliant excuse for an event or a get-together. For the Trinity Hall community, the pleasure of these events lies in cementing – and sometimes re-discovering – connections made from our time at College. Some of us return soon after leaving and visit frequently, while some make it only years later, and others not at all. The feeling of belonging to a wider community may be intense or quite casual, but among the alumni I meet now, most have a deep sense of how their time at Cambridge and Trinity Hall helped shape who they are and what they’ve achieved since. We held a fantastic event at the Tower of London in February and we’re looking forward to the THA Regional Dinner in Cardiff on 7 June. If you haven’t visited for a while, why not attend a reunion or another event and see if you will re-discover old connections or make new ones?
As Front Court goes to press, the THA Committee will be receiving applications for the THA 2025 Volunteering Awards. These are modest grants towards student projects of humanitarian interest, which often represent small steps toward the students’ future careers. It’s tremendously gratifying to know that through the THA, we are nurturing early passions that may well inspire the awardees to become whoever they want to be and achieve whatever they hope to do.
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