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Congratulations to the recipients of 2024’s First Degree Course Educational Awards: Lillie Buckley, Edward Smith and Torsten Ellis.

Where has this year gone? As we move forward into a new year, it’s a perfect time to assess what has happened in 2024 and prepare ourselves for fresh opportunities and challenges ahead. Jane Nelson, our CEO, reflects.

We've an exciting schedule of free, open-to-all online events on offer throughout the festive period. So if you'd like to say hello to some friendly folk over Xmas, or fancy filling Twixmas with some joyful company, then read on...

As you get older, you tend to become more certain about the things you enjoy doing. This knowledge can be a comfort, but there are many surprising benefits to pushing yourself outside of this zone of familiarity from time-to-time.

We are a Carbon Neutral Plus Organisation and have been calculating and offsetting our annual carbon footprint since 1 April 2020. Such measurement has resulted in a number of changes to how we operate, with the focus being on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – today and into the future.

While the term ‘frenergy’ is new, it’s a very familiar feeling. The energy friendship gives us is unmistakeable, and at this year’s Friendship Month celebrations, our Branches up and down the country were dishing it out in abundance.

Representatives from the Oddfellows have visited The University of Southampton’s Centre for Cancer Immunology to mark the final payment of funding courtesy of the Society’s HA Andrews Memorial Fund.

No matter who you are, you can receive and radiate ‘frenergy’. But what is it and why do we need it in our lives? Psychologist Dr Veronica Lamarche shares the science behind friendship energy.