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This sub-series is related to the activities of the Oakham School Charities Association. The various files contains photographs of events, programmes and posters advertising those events, reports and detailed accounts of money raised to support charities.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the first Chapel organ, dedicated in 1930.

This sub-series gathers speeches delivered during the Millennium celebrations.

This sub-series focuses on objects made for the Millennium celebration.

This sub-series is made of various objects used in the Chapel.

Recollections, a letter and a photograph related to life at Oakham School during the Second World War.

A collection of photographs and architectural plans of the Music School since its opening in 1984.

This sub-series focuses on Chapel Council meetings and minutes from 1959 to 1979.

This sub-series focusses on the Merton building, erected on the site of the old Ashburton Dining Hall. It was in use on the first day of the 1991 Winter term and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 November. Michael McCrum, former Trustee and Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, opened the new block. It comprised “spacious corridors, staff rooms for each subjects and twenty-four comfortable and acoustically effective classrooms”. The building was named after OO Thomas Merton (‘32). The Headmaster, Graham Smallbone, planted a tree outside the entrance to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Diocese of Peterborough. This new building houses the English, Maths and History Departments.