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FROM THE Former Pupil University Reps

Calling all higher education students. The Development Office is looking for
current students to act as representatives, helping new Herioters joining their
university.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE We envisage that the University Reps will act as a welcoming face for new

Herioter students, helping to link them with other Herioters at the university,
helping them acclimatise to a new city and giving them the run-down of
campus life.

This will not be an onerous role, the primary responsibility being to help fellow
Herioters find their feet. This new project will be launching in 2022, so, if you will
Former Pupil Survey: Hamper winner be a student for the 2022/23 academic year, with at least one year’s experience
at your university, we’d love to hear from you.

Ambassador Zoom

The Development Office hosted a productive Zoom call for FP Ambassadors in
early June. The event was well attended with FPs across the years dialling in. It
was a fantastic way to connect with former pupils across the UK and overseas
to put plans in place regarding how the Development Team can boost the
alumni relations programme at Heriot’s.
The discussion touched on communication between Ambassadors and their
retrospective year groups, former pupil get-togethers at local pubs and
participating in group sporting socials, furthering the Development events
strategy, implementing engagement tactics.
The Development Office database is going through a period of transition
at present which may result in a minor delay of topics discussed coming
to fruition. Please do bear with us regarding this.
We are truly grateful to our Ambassadors for their help and support in
connecting with former pupils around the world. As ever, the Development
Team is here to support the FP network - do not hesitate to get in touch
with us.

If you would like to be a FP Ambassador for your year group and help play
a role in furthering the alumni relations programme, please email
development@george-heriots.com. We would love to hear from you! Welcome to Henry Gray
In May we bid a fond farewell to Catherine Fong
who had been a valued member of the Development
Team for four and a half years. Catherine has taken
up the position of Database Manager at Edinburgh
and Lothians Health Foundation, where we know she
will thrive.
The Development Office would like to extend a big thank you to all 1,370 Congratulations to Douglas Dow (1953) who was the lucky winner of
Henry Gray joined the Development team as our
former pupils who took part in our recent survey. The former pupil the Highland Hamper from our friends at The House of Bruar. Douglas
new Database and Operations guru. Henry comes to
community provided us with plenty of helpful feedback which, in turn, will received his hamper from (now former) Principal, Lesley Franklin and we
Heriot’s with a wealth of experience having previously
shape our former pupils engagement strategy. We are slowly contacting are sure the treats were enjoyed!
been at HIV Scotland and Fettes College.
all those who participated.
Henry is on hand to assist with all queries relating
to contact details, communication preferences, data
Development Emails submissions, gift aid and other financial matters.
Like the rest of the team, if you fancy a chat, virtually
We have been made aware that many of our emails are going into Junk Email folders. To ensure you receive emails from the Development Office,
or in-person, Henry would be delighted to help.
please add development@george-heriots.com to your ‘safe senders’ list (sometimes called a whitelist). Thank you.