Cambridge Alumni in the north-east of England

Northumbrian Cambridge
Association

The Northumbrian Cambridge Association (NCA) has brought together alumni living in the North East of England for over 90 years.

We meet in most months for walks, talks, concerts, films, freshers and festive events, an annual dinner, and an AGM. We very much welcome suggestions for further group activities.

For more information, visit our What We Do page (link above), or contact a Committee Member (via Who to Contact, link above). You can also visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn, Bluesky or X

We very much need to recruit new committee members. We currently have six ex-officio committee members and can add one more. We need to plan for succession as officers wish to step down over the next few years, so please do consider volunteering to ensure the sustainability of the NCA. If you want to find out more about the NCA committee, please contact NCA President Heather Cordell (heather.cordell@ncl.ac.uk)

We always welcome new members (our subscription is £10 a year). For information about joining, or attending a forthcoming event, please contact us using our How to Join page (link above). Prospective NCA members are welcome to attend one of our meetings and bring guests.

Membership subscriptions are due by March 1st 2024. Please note that the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) bars us from holding information on non-active members. If you have been a member for some years but have not been paying subscriptions and completed a GDPR form, during 2023 we requested you to send a completed GDPR form and arrange payment of your subscription (to our new bank account, see booking form for July meeting below) or confirm your resignation from the NCA. We reached the point where we had to remove dormant members from the NCA database. We no longer hold and use their email addresses, but they may continue to visit this website and rejoin if a future meeting or event takes their interest. Similarly, members who receive all communications by post were asked in early October 2023 to complete a membership renewal and/or GDPR form to remain on our active members list.

If you have received no NCA email or postal communications in 2024 and want to rejoin the NCA, please do so using the form(s) on our How to Join page.

You can read our current newsletter, follow us on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky or X ) and join our Facebook group.

Meetings for 2025

Details of meetings will be posted here as they are finalised. Note that we plan to discontinue this website before the end of this year. We will move all online communication to our university alumni groups webpage. We have been running most of the content there in parallel for over over a year now. We are now also making use of the university's ability to email all alumni in the region, and are thus letting more northeast alumni know about NCA activities. Please familiarise yourself with the university's NCA webpage at https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/group/northumbrian-cambridge-association

There are five sections to our Cambridge UniversityDevelopment and Alumni Relations group page: overview, about us (committee details), join us (to be updated soon), group events (meeting details), and group news (newsletters).

Booking Form

For our 95th Anniversary Dinner we are trying something different, dining at 6.30pm in the Medieval Banquet Hall at Blackfriars. (This is the most accessible of the spaces at
Blackfriars but does involve a few steps – please contact the restaurant on 0191 261 5945 or
info@blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk if you have any questions).
The cost of the meal will be £45.00 per person for three courses and a welcome drink. Additional drinks
can be ordered at the bar (to be paid for separately) and/or with the waiting staff. If you would like to join
us, please complete the booking form opposite.

The final concert of the 2025/2025 season organised by the Morpeth Music Society is by Red Priest, a baroque ensemble of recorders, various pipes, violin, cello and harpsichord. The audience can look forward to experiencing both classics of the baroque era, such as the Brandenburg Concert No 5, and less familiar works, all performed in the group's inimitable style. The musicians are renowned for delivering an exciting, virtuosic, musical experience.

If you are interested in attending the concert, please contact Allan Colver, who can reserve seats (£18). allan.colver@newcastle.ac.uk

Allan would also be pleased to welcome members to his house at Hepscott (about two miles from Morpeth) for a drink and a little to eat before the concert.

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