Sandy Ross-Macdonald Award

Sandy Ross-Macdonald
This award is presented in memory of Sandy Ross-Macdonald.

Sandy was the driving force behind the Cambridge Society of London for many years. He also served as a member of the University of Cambridge Alumni Advisory Board and the Cambridge Society Executive Committee, as well as being the founding Chair of the Networks and Volunteers Working Group.

He was one of a select group of members of the Executive Committee of the Cambridge Society who played a major role in the formation of the Cambridge Alumni Relations Office (CARO) and the University of Cambridge will be eternally grateful for his tireless work both publicly and behind the scenes.

Purpose
The Sandy Ross-Macdonald Award serves to recognise the remarkable contribution of Cambridge University's volunteer-led Alumni Groups.

The award will be presented to a Group whom the Networks and Volunteers Working Group judge as having demonstrated an outstanding level of creativity, innovation, leadership or service.

Process

Any recognised Alumni Group listed on the CARO website can be nominated for the award.
The Award will be presented at the Alumni Groups Global Leadership Conferences
Nominations can be made by any alumnus/a, Alumni Group member or member of University staff by emailing CARO with the name of the Group and the reason they should receive the award.
Nominations must be made by the stated deadline for each Leadership Conference.
The Networks and Volunteers Working Group's decision is final and no further negotiation will be entered in to.
Nominations which do not receive the Sandy Ross-Macdonald Award will also be considered for special mention at an Alumni Groups Leadership Conference.

July 2012 at Madingley Hall, Cambridge
Winner
Cambridge Society of Paris

Special mentions
Cambridge Society of Western Australia
Cambridge Society of Belgium
Vancouver Oxford and Cambridge Society
Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong
Oxford and Cambridge Society of Hong Kong
Cambridge Society of Oxfordshire
Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club of Geneva
Oxford and Cambridge Club of Zurich

April 2012 at the Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong
Winner
Fiji Cambridge and Oxford Alumni Group
Read the acceptance speech (read out by Dr Kai-Yuen Wong, member of the Alumni Advisory Board and the Networks and Volunteers Working Group).

Special mentions
Cambridge Alumni Association of the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan
Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society, Czech Republic
Cambridge Society of London
University of Cambridge Society in Bulgaria

July 2011 at Murray Edwards College Cambridge
Winner
Cambridge10

Special mentions
Cambridge Society of London
Fiji Cambridge and Oxford Alumni Group
Cambridge Society of Australia (Victoria)
Vancouver Oxford and Cambridge Society
Cambridge Society of North and West Yorkshire