The Bristol Alumni Network are delighted to invite all alumni to this year's Alumni Reunion Weekend from 15 to 17 August, which sees a packed schedule of activities.

The weekend will start with a private wine tasting in Avery's historic vaulted cellars on the Friday evening. This year's programme features exciting new tours, including a visit to Brunel's SS Great Britain and a boat tour showcasing the expansion of the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus from the water.

Badock Hall is turning 60 and the Manor Hall Association are celebrating their 100th anniversary and special events have been planned by the hall associations to mark both of these milestones.

Professor Sir Malcolm Evans will be the guest speaker at the Saturday evening Reunion Dinner and Professor Bruce Hood will be delivering a guest lecture on the Sunday morning, asking, "With advances in AI and a rapidly changing job market, what and how should we be teaching our students?".

Accommodation is available in Wills Hall or the Holmes at Churchill Hall, or discounts have been arranged with local hotels.

Programme

Find the full programme, as well as accommodation information here: Alumni Reunion Weekend 2025 programme (PDF, 251kB).  Discounts for students and recent graduates (graduated since 2020) are available on some activities.

Friday 15 August

• 6:30 pm - Wine Tasting at Avery's wine cellars

Saturday 16 August

• 10:30 am to 12 pm - 60 years of Badock Hall. Tour and morning coffee
• 11 am to 12 pm - SS Great Britain tour
• 11 am to 12:30 pm - Wills Memorial Buildomg Tower Tour (A)
• 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm  - Private boar trip around Bristol Harbour
• 1 pm - 2:30 pm - Wills Memorial Building Tower Tour (B)
• 1 pm - 4 pm  - 100 Years of Manor Hall Association and Celebrating the Life of Christopher Didcote
• 2 pm - Tour of St Nicholas market and its air raid shelter
• 2 pm - 5 pm - Croquet Competition
• 6:15 pm  - Reunion Weekend Drinks Reception
• 7:15 pm - Reunion Weekend Dinner 

Sunday 17 August

• 9:45 am - Wills Hall Association Annual General Meeting
• 9:45 am - Churchill Hall Association Annual General Meeting
• 10:30 am - Reunion Weekend Morning Service
• 11:45 am - Arthur Graves Memorial Lecture: Professor Bruce Hood
• 1 pm - Lunch 

Booking

Click here to book your place online.

Please confirm your booking as soon as possible and at the very latest by 5pm on Tuesday 29 July 2025. After this point, Bristol Alumni Network may not be able to make any changes or offer refunds.

When you join us at an event, the organisers share this information with the University alumni team for their records. This will be stored confidentially within the alumni database. This won't change how the University contacts you, but you can manage this at any time by emailing the team at alumni@bristol.ac.uk, or phoning them on 0117 394 1046.  

You can find out more here: www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni-your-data.