Ruskin Fellowship

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The Ruskin Fellowship is an alumni association for former students and staff of Ruskin College in Oxford, England. The Fellowship is approximately one hundred years old.^{[citation needed]}

The Fellowship is independent of, but associated with, Ruskin College, and seeks to support the work and ethos of the College: namely to offer basic skills to university level education to disadvantaged adults in Britain. There is also a postgraduate programme and an international section involving International Labour and Trade Union Studies, Webb and Chevening Scholars. Throughout the year the Fellowship co-operates with the College Newsletter, fundraising and advertising the benefits and opportunities at Ruskin.

Fellowship members are governed by an Executive at the head of which is the President. The Fellowship holds an annual Reunion in September where an Annual General Meeting (AGM) is held and officers elected.

Some of the Past Presidents: (Other President's names will be added to the list)

Mr. John Hurlston; Mz. Jan Smith; Mr. Brian Smith; Mr. Mike Convery; Mz. Carole Orgell-Rosen;