<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Old Bancroftians Association</title><description>The OBA website is intended to help the Association meet its main objective of enabling former pupils of Bancroft's School to keep in touch with each other and the School.</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net</link><item><title>Centenary of Bancroft RFC</title><description>On 6th February 2010 the President of the RFU, John Owen presented Bancroft RFC President Michael Stout OB with a plaque to commemorate the Club&apos;s centenary.
The club was actually founded in 1894 and played Association Football, converting to Rugby Football following the change at the school.  Before it became known as Bancroft RFC the club was the Old Bancroftians&apos; Rugby Football Club</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5481</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 February 2010 12:58:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Latest Newsletter Now Available</title><description>The OBA Newsletter issued on 10 February 201 can be nowread online</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5478</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 February 2010 10:27:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2010 OBA AGM</title><description>The agenda for the AGM is now available online together with the Chairman&apos;s report and Accounts.  Log in to search documents for 2010 Agenda, or click on the event headline in the event diary</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5477</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 February 2010 16:16:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Andy Saull in the Saxons EPS</title><description>Andy Saull, who made his England Saxons debut in the International Friendly match against Portugal on January 30, 2009, has again been included in the Saxons Elite Players Squad</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5415</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 January 2010 00:12:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bancroft&apos;s in Vogue</title><description>In 2009 Vogue Italia used the school as a location for a fashion photoshoot.  The results were published in the September 2009 issue of Vogue Italia. For a full report log in and search for Vogue in the documemt search facility</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5406</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 December 2009 11:26:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Laura, Lucinda and Desiree run for charity</title><description>Laura, Lucinda and Desiree ran despite howling winds and heavy rainfall, all three of them were still in good spirits, along with 2000 other runners, all raising money for charity</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5400</link><pubDate>Wed, 9 December 2009 11:14:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sarah Hannibal skis into BritishTeam</title><description>Sarah Hannibal (1992-2003) has been selected for the Bristish Telemark Skiing Team</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5395</link><pubDate>Tue, 8 December 2009 11:47:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sara wins Silver</title><description>Saturday 5th December :  Today at 10.13am local time in Deans Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas, Sara Campbell made a successful - and remarkably easy - dive, on one breath, self-propelled to 92m, winning her SILVER MEDAL for Britain in the AIDA Individual Freediving World Championships.  


The dive took her three minutes and eight seconds and she was very fresh and strong on the surface after the dive. the same dive has taken her around three minutes and 30 seconds in training so today was extremely positive and shows that Sara is on better form than ever</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5393</link><pubDate>Tue, 8 December 2009 11:25:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Follow the Progress of Bancroft RFC</title><description>Click on the headline to see where Bancroft RFC stand in the league and from there look at their latest results</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5381</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 November 2009 12:49:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Jeremy Bromfield to retire</title><description>Jermey Bromfield has announced that he will retire at the end of this academic year (in order to carry on working, it seems!).  To read his personal announcement log in and click on the headline</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5366</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 October 2009 10:58:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yolanda Brown does it again</title><description>For the second year running Yolanda Brown picked up the award for best jazz artist at the MOBO awards 2009 held in Glasgow</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5363</link><pubDate>Sat, 3 October 2009 01:02:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adam Foulds shortlisted for the Booker</title><description>Adam Foulds&apos; latest book The Quickening Maze was been shortlisted for the 2009 Booker prize.  He did not win , but what an achievement nevertheless.</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5359</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 September 2009 09:35:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Entrepreneur of the Year 2009</title><description>Dr Mike Lynch, founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation plc, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year in Management Today&apos;s highly acclaimed Top 100 Entrepreneurs 2009 ranking</description><link>http://www.bancroftian.net/cgi-bin/obacms3.pl?id=5262</link><pubDate>Thu, 8 January 2009 11:37:41 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>