HAPPY NEW YEAR.  We hope that you had a relaxing but enjoyable Christmas and New Year and are now into the swing of 2008!  The Junior term certainly is up and running - early starts and late finishes  - day 3 and most of them are still in shock!  The Inters have already gone out on exercise to refresh their skills learnt in their first term - so I am sure they are feeling this wintery weather.  We have some exciting events lined up this year starting with Major General Simon Mayall, ACGS, coming to talk at our first Leadership Encounter Evening - please read below for more details.  Our new Commandant, Major General David Rutherford-Jones, is pushing for a major Foundation event in November with a top speaker already lined up - more details to follow.  We hope that our new Patron, The King of Bahrain, will also be visiting this year.  Major General Sir Patrick Cordingley will be our guest speaker at the Annual Foundation Dinner Night on 17 May supported by the Grenadier Guards brass quintet - so as you can see lots to be involved in.

Leadership Encounter Evening - Tues 5 Feb 08

We are extremely pleased to announce that Assistant Chief of the General Staff (ACGS), Major General Simon Mayall, will be coming to speak to us on the 'Realities of Iraq'  He was the Deputy Commanding General Multi National Corps Iraq until January this year and is a renowned speaker.  Please click >>here to read more about the General and click >>here to sign up.

Wishstream - The Journal of the Sandhurst Foundation -

We hope that you have now all received your copy of the Wishstream and have enjoyed reading it - we have already had a lot of feedback on the reponse slips which has been great and can only help to improve  our future editions.  Please do let us know if you have not received your copy yet - please allow another 2 - 3 weeks for those living overseas.

Commissioning Course (CC) Speakers for Spring Term

If you would like to attend any of the Speaker nights below please email Jules on jules.mccoll@sandhurstfoundation.org.  All Speaker nights start at 1800hrs and are held in Churchill Hall.  You are welcome to bring along family or friends but please ensure that we have all the details of those attending and they bring photographic ID with them.

Voice of Experience - 14 January - Brig JG Lorrimer MBE

Challenges of Civilian Leadership - 15 January - Richard Beaumont, MD Freedomfinance

Stress in Combat - 31 January

Challenges of Civilian Leadership II - 11 February - Patrick Snowball, Towergate Finance

Moral Dimension of Leadership - 27 February - Rev David Wilkes OBE QHC

Talk by CO - 28 February - Lt Col GP Hill PARA

Voice of Experience: Do the Tools do the Job? - 24 March - Maj Rob Driver, Coy Comd RMAS

EVENTS AT RMAS

William Wright Memorial Lecture - Thurs 13 March

This event is being run by the MOD Chaplains department.  Archbishop The Lord RHA Eames OM, former Archbishop of Armagh, will be talking on 'The Challenges of Reconcilliation'.  Arrival is 1830 - 1900 followed by the talk and then a short reception.  The event will take place in the Indian Army Memorial Room.  There is no charge for this event.  If you would like to attend please contact Nancy Stewart on 01980 615809.

Reunions

The Foundation is now actively trying to organise Reunions - ie rather than wait for members to come to us we have put a list together to hold reunions from Sept 2008 through to Dec 2009.  We have worked out the reunions for the intakes who left here from 5yrs to 60yrs ago.  Please click >>here to see which reunions will be taking place and please let us know if you would be interested in attending.  Please also pass the word around to friends who might not be members.

Sunset over the Empire - please click >>here to read an amazing account of Major(Retd) Whitaker's tour in Nigeria.

Phone Recycling - Help for Heroes.

Some of your children or grandchildren or even you may have got a new Mobile Phone for Christmas and Help for Heroes (www.helpforheroes.org.uk) is asking you to recycle your old ones. They are doing amazingly well with the fund raising and have now raised over £2million in 3 months but many more millions are needed to complete the project they have planned for Headley Court - so if you could help by donating your old mobile that would be great.  According to a survey done by Tesco Mobile approximately 3 million mobiles will go to Landfill after Christmas!  All you need to do is go onto this website www.recyclingappeal.com and request an envelope to be sent to your address.  Please mention Help for Heroes or Ref No: VEN0283949 so that the funds are credited to the right charity.  They also take ink cartridges excpet for Epson Inkjet - thank you for your support.

2008 Foundation Programme - please click >>here to view the programme for 2008 - this is constantly updated with new events.

Sandstorm Kenya Travel Bags and Accessories. 

We are delighted to tell you that the Foundation has teamed up with Sandstorm Kenya, who produce an extremely stylish range of travel bags and accessories. to offer our members a 10% discount on all bags plus an additional 10% off if more than one bag is purchased at the same time.  Please click >>here to see their range.  Please contact Sally Taylor on sally.taylor@sandhurstfoundation.org if you would like to purchase any.  We do now hold a stock in the office if you are near enough to come and take a look.

Signing up New Members

We are always trying to increase our membership and as an incentive we would like to offer all our members the chance to obtain a free copy of a 'Journal of a Student At Arms' by Francis Salvesen by signing up a New Member.  Please ensure that you tell us the name of the new member so you can receive your free copy!

The Sandhurst Shop  - 'Serve to Lead' Boxers, Socks and Ties - all for sale.  For further details on prices and to order please click >>here.  We now have the Sandhurst Foundation cufflinks in stock. To order please click above.

Smart Turnout - Smart Turnout is delighted to announce the launch of its New Website - not only will you still find all your old favourites but also lots of new ones.  They have now introduced a womenswear section as well as some fantastic new jumpers - please remember that all Foundation members receive a 10% discount on any purchases.  Please click >>here to see the

Jules McColl
Sandhurst Foundation Secretary