St Cross College, Oxford

St Cross is now holding the annual photography competition for student members of College.   This year's theme is 'Hidden Oxford'.

During January St Cross undertook a successful telephone fund-raising campaign in conjunction with the University Development Office.

The annual College carol service was held in the Chapel of Pusey House on Tuesday 6 December.  It was conducted by Bishop Jonathan Baker, the Principal of Pusey House, assisted by Fr Philip Corbett and Fr Mihai Novacovschi and the chapel was full of members of College, their families and friends.

'Is it really student accommodation?  Looks more like smart flats to me,' was the comment of a local passer-by on Stonemason House in Magdalen Road, the newest addition to the range of accommodation provided by St Cross for its students.

The Institute of Archaeology has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary recently and the occasion was marked by a reception held at St Cross on the evening of Thursday 29 September, one of the superb warm days that provided a late taste of summer.

There will very soon be another chance to see Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning TV series 'A History of Christianity', which is to be given a repeat showing on BBC4.

Current thinking on the way we understand our universe was brought to a packed audience of nearly 400 physicists and others on 14 March 2011, in the second of the St Cross Science Lecture series at the Said Business School.

St Cross held its annual London winter drinks reception for alumni of the College on Wednesday 8 December 2010, in the splendid surroundings of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall on a chilly winter’s night.

The annual joint St Cross College/Pusey House service of traditional Advent lessons and carols, held on 7 December, has raised a splendid total of £312.05 for Helen & Douglas House, a local charity in Oxford which provides much-needed hospice care for children and young adults.

One of the most eagerly awaited and special evenings of the year is always the occasion of the annual College Founders' Feast.