Old Member Charities

Eleanor is an educational project based around an innovative cinematic installation at The Cob Gallery, London.

They are running a competition, online campaign and educational workshops in conjunction with Camden Council, open to students in 13 local senior schools based around a short film produced by Katie Langridge (2006, Modern History). 

Nepal in Need (NiN) was founded in 2008 by Old Member Catherine Blaiklock and Gyaljen Sherpa. This charity operates in the Arun Valley of Eastern Nepal and aims to help the indigenous Rai and Sherpa peoples in this area with primary health care, education, and the provision of basic utilities.

We work with rural Kenyan communities to improve education by providing and upgrading school buildings and teaching materials.

HSK was co-founded by Christ Church alumnus William Snell (Modern History, 1998).

Wells for India is UK charity working on water related projects in Rajasthan in north west India, founded by Christ Church old member Dr Nicholas Gray and his wife Professor Mary Grey in 1987.

Our focus is on water - the provision of sufficient clean water for drinking, cooking, washing, the animals and for crops - all the things we take for granted here.

The Glacier Trust is a UK registered charity working to mitigate the effects of climate change upon communities living at high altitudes in the Himalayas. Rapid atmospheric warming has brought changes of weather patterns. Long droughts and shorter heavier rainfall events are increasingly frequent, making life precarious for remote and already undernourished subsistence communities.

Andrew Chamblin, an old member of Christ Church (1991), died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2006 at the very early age of 36. Friends and relatives of Andrew have joined together to commemorate his memory by forming the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert Fund with the intention of funding an annual organ concert to be given in Christ Church Cathedral, given Andrew's own accomplishments as an organist and great appreciation of organ music.

The inaugural Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert took place in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on Thursday 10th May 2007 and was given by the internationally renowned organist Thomas Trotter FRCO. Mr Trotter played a number of organ pieces by Mozart, Handel and Bach.

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert 2013

The seventh annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert will be given by the internationally renowned organist Nicolas Kynaston HonFRCO HonRAM at 8 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, on Tuesday 11th June 2013.  Mr Kynaston will play an hour-long programme of Baroque organ works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Mozart. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. There are no tickets required and no reserved seating.

The Alastair Ramsay Charitable Trust ("ARCH") was founded in late 2007 in memory of Alastair Ramsay, a former member of Christ Church (1986 to 1990) who died suddenly that year at the age of 39. Alastair studied History and Economics and was a keen sportsman who represented Christ Church at soccer, hockey and cricket and got a half-blue in racquets but will be most remembered by those who knew him for being one of life's genuinely likeable people. After leaving Christ Church Alastair worked at McKinsey, learning that he had been elected a Director just three days before his death.