Alumni Offers

Special offers for Alumni, Merchandise and more...

Edge Grove Print from Mark Yarrow
We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to purchase a print of one the latest drawings of Edge Grove drawn by one of our Old Boys, Mark Yarrow (Gills 1976).

We showcased some of Mark's work in our previous newsletter and then commissioned Mark to draw the front of the school as a leaving gift for Ben Evans. His incredibly detailed finished piece is stunning and although Ben holds the original pencil drawing, Mark has agreed to provide a limited number of prints of the piece to be sold to raise money for the school.

The print is 43cm x 23cm landscape and will come rolled in a tube for you to have framed in the style of your choice at a later date. Each print costs £25 plus post and packaging. This really is a stunning representation of the front of the school that has seen few changes over the last 85 years and a treasured memento of your time here.

If you would like to purchase one please email egs@edgegrove.com.

Cidentro Cider House

Old Edge Grovian Matthew Cook (Edge Grove 1977-82) tells us about his cider making business and has a special offer for you all.

Matthew Cook (OB 1977-82) went on to Harrow after leaving Edge Grove and then onto The City of London Polytechnic to study Politics. After a stint in the property industry he and his wife have set up their own cider making business in Melton Mowbray producing Cidentro cider. He has a special offer for Edge Grove Society members who are cider lovers.Cidentro Cider House, founded by Matthew Cook and his wife Hiranthi, produce a unique range of ciders created from English cider apples. Inspired by tradition and a time when English cider was a distinguished drink, they aim to bring a modern approach to cider for enjoyment in the same way as wine. They started the business in 2017 by planting an orchard of 540 cider apple trees on their farm near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Consumers are being more conscious about what they are buying, they are curious to know what’s in their drinks and quality and provenance are becoming even more important than price when choosing a drink. It wasn’t that long ago that a new niche cider may well have been overlooked and gone under the radar to their audience in a cider category that’s mainly dominated by large commercial mainstream brands, but today it feels like consumers are eagerly searching out hidden gems from local producers and that’s great.

Hiranthi Cook, Cider Maker

Cidentro ciders are made from 100% pressed juice, using the very best carefully selected English heritage cider apples, fermented in the same way as wine, albeit apples instead of grapes. After fermentation, the cider is racked off and then matured for 6-12 months to allow flavour characteristics to fully develop. In our orchard we have seven different varieties of cider apple that range from bittersweet and bittersharp varieties to sweet and sharp, each with varying levels of tannin, acidity and natural sweetness. The fully matured ciders are then blended to secret recipes to produce new, exciting cider flavours unique to each Cidentro cider. We sell our ciders in wine size bottles (75cl) too which is a bit different and perhaps an alternative to wine? It’s best served chilled either on its own or as a pairing with food.

From a hat full of apples – a nod to the verse in the Wassail incantation “….hats full, caps full, three bushel bags full” – comes a cider to celebrate.
Our current range includes a still cider, sparkling cider and a rosé cider created from a blend of English cider and English Pinot Noir wine. These ciders have recently won Silver and Bronze medals at the International Cider Challenge 2020, have been featured in the Guardian newspaper and appeared on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch.

Having launched our website and online sales in February 2020 just before the Covid pandemic took grip on the UK it’s been a difficult first year of trading and it holds continued uncertainty. Any support would be greatly appreciated!

We deliver throughout the UK, buy online from the Cidentro website https://www.cidentro.co.uk and use coupon code EGS10 at checkout for a 10% discount.

Shop Online and Raise Money

Amazon Smile works by making donations to your chosen charity every time you shop. It's a fantastic and easy way to raise money for charities close to your heart. Edge Grove is also registered so every time you shop you could be raising money for the school. Click here to find out more and register - in order for donations to happen you have to order through the Amazon Smile site, not the normal Amazon site.

Give as you Live is a similar initiative to Amazon Smile and we have been registered with them for a while now. We have raised over £1000 through Give as you Live and would love to see this grow. Click here to find out more.