The OHA is currently looking for members to help digitalise and organise the extensive archives at WHGS. These date right back to when WHGS first opened including:

• Infectious Disease Book
• Beatings Book
• Early School Accounts
• Newspaper cuttings scrap books (including the advert for the first entrance exam)
• Mr "Toddy" Haynes photo archive
• Plus, boxes and boxes and boxes of photos - CCF, Sports, Hardraw etc.

If you're good with digital scanning or generally want to lend a hand, please contact the OHA Committee at oha@oldhulmeians.org and get involved! Your hard work will enable the OHA to further develop it Members Area pages to allow OHA Members across the world to quickly search through the archives, share memories and explore the fascinating history of William Hulme.

Thanks to Paul Collis, Mike Cummings, and Rick Shotton for coming into to William Hulme today and addressing Lower Sixth (Year 12) - sharing their career paths and thoughts on what they had wished they had known at 18. You can still share your thoughts or any career advice by coming in on 27 February, 12 March and 26 March - please contact us at oha@oldhulmeians.org

Groups of Old Hulmeians are talking to the Lower Sixth (Year 12) on Mondays 11-12 on 27 February, 12 March and 26 March at WHGS. If you would like to help out and share your career path contact us at oha@oldhulmeians.org

The OHA is looking for a new Treasurer.

We are also looking for contributors to the for the next edition of the OHA Annual Newsletter. Want to write an article? Dig out old photographs? Tell us about yourself?

Think you're up for the job? Then contact oha@oldhulmeians.org for all enquiries.

Matthew Hargreaves was elected President of the OHA for a two-year period in September 2011. He says: "The purpose of the OHA is to encourage social interaction amongst staff and pupils both past and present. We need to look to new forms of technology to support this interaction, whilst retaining our current methods of communication. The OHA will continue to support the school financially as well as offering its resources, including the experience and expertise of our members, for the benefit of pupils and the School."

Born in 1972, Matthew attended the William Hulme's from 1982 to 1990 (Dalton House), obtained a BSc in Rivers and Rocks at Sheffield University. Involved in student houses in Sheffield, he then drifted into property in Manchester. Matthew travelled the world and then lived in Manchester city centre for a decade. Mediocrity and under-achievement followed in the field of Exhibitions. Now out in Knutsford with Holly, his wife, and two children: Monty (two years) and Florence (two weeks). Happy. No dog, no God: would quite like a dog.