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.

We would like to invite all Old Hulmeians to help us gather information regarding members of their own school year group. As the internet and email become more commonplace, we need to keep pace with these developments. What we are seeking are volunteers to act as representatives for each individual year group, to be responsible for collating email addresses and contact details within their cohort. Please contact Matthew Hargreaves (Matthew2ts@hotmail.com) if you would be interested in taking on this role.

The OHA is looking to build up a database of Old Hulmeian careers advisers within different sectors (legal, medical, engineering, business etc), who would be willing to come into the school to offer guidance to sixth form students, either in a short assembly presentation or through a more informal small group discussion. If you would like to help and can spare a little time then please contact Matthew Hargreaves at Matthew2ts@hotmail.com.

Following a number of recent enquiries for information about former pupils, representatives from the OHA committee are working with the school to explore how we might make the WHGS archives available to OHA members.

The school has kept a wide range of documents and materials dating back many years, including the following: copies of "The Hulmeian" annual magazine and the OHA newsletter for most years; card index of pupils (names, dates, headmaster's comments) dating back many years; register of teaching staff (1890s-1960s); register of absence for infectious diseases (1890s-1950s); a large number of assorted but uncatalogued photographs, plus a small number of photographic printing plates; press clippings about the school dating back to its opening; KP Thompson's history of the school; OHA committee meeting minutes (1913-86); Whitworth House archive (1970s-1990s); various shields, blazer and cap badges from the school and CCF; entrance exam results (1887-1903).

We hope to make some of these materials available online, although this will not be suitable for all items. Anybody who would like to help with either cataloguing the archives or preparing them for digital presentation online is kindly requested to contact Matthew Hargreaves at Matthew2ts@hotmail.com.