Saturday 26th May is our AGM - all are welcome of course to see us present our annual report and elect new trustees, including a new Chair! We are holding the meeting at the London Irish Centre ( www.londonirishcentre.org ) in Camden, London which allows us to host a dinner, a discussion panel featuring admirable UWC alumni and a party. Everyone is welcome to all or any part of the day (kicking off at 4:30pm with the AGM), but we need to charge for the dinner and the party afterwards. For further details please visit our facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/events/127292624067877/ or email events@uwcgb.org

Our Selection Team and Atlantic College have now completed our respective parts of the selection process and now all we need to do is send out the letters! AC's scholarship pot has stretched further than previous years down our list of nominees, but there are many who won't be offered any scholarship support. If you want to help us send these amazing young people to a UWC and help the college they go to continue to transform lives with that income, please consider pledging support via our National Committee! Candidates - keep your eyes on the post!

Want to work off the Christmas excesses? Join Team UWCGB - a new group for UK based UWCers who like to run. All experience levels and abilities welcome. We also have a fledgling facebook group so that we can all connect and motivate one another. Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/315720831801262/ to join, or you can follow @TeamUWCGB on twitter!

 Two, 100% scholarship places have just been confirmed for Pearson College - open only to students resident in Anglesey and Scotland. This is great news if you live in those places but bad news for anyone else with their heart set on Pearson College. Please research all of the colleges (except UWCSEA and UWCSB) and keep an open mind!

After teething problems associated with our move to a new website and a new method for distributing the application form, it is now finally possible to request the application pack via the 'Apply' tab here. We are trialling a new method that enables us to better evaluate what we do so that we can improve. As a result it is not possible to simply download the pack from this website and there is an unavoidable 24hr delay in the request for the pack being fulfilled. There is one thing already that we know we need to improve upon! The good news is that the questions in the application form have altered very little from last year, so if you have begun composing answers based on the application form for 2010 it is good practice. We apologise for the delay in getting the new website and application procedure 'live' but we hope that the changes will lead to better and faster communication from us throughout the selection process.

Open Day is nearly upon us. It will be a chance for prospective students to find out a little about each of the UWCs we tend to receive offers from and, of course, get a tour of Atlantic College.

A roaring success! Our Fundraising Officer ran to help support more students, but we are still WAY below our ability to provide extra funds on top of AC's scholarship pot, so if you would still like to sponsor a runner, please follow the links via Just Giving! Thank you to Pam for organising it again :)