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This series is related to the charity work at Oakham School, including the fund raising and other events organised at school by staff, pupils, houses and the Oakham School Charities Association (OSCA) in aid of various charities and the local community.

This series focusses on obituaries, tributes and memorial services in memory of staff, teachers and their family.

This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

The Spring 2016 issue of "The Green Tiger", the magazine of The Riyal Tigers' Association, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, containing a feature on the centenary of the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt and the anniversary dinner attended by Jon Wills, representing E.G. Langdale (pp. 14-20). Enclosed is a note from Captain R.J. Allen sending the magazine to Jon Wills.

An invitation from the Dean and Chapter of Leicester Cathedral, The Royal Tigers' Association, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to a special service of Choral Evensong in the Leicester Cathedral to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt.

A letter from Captain R.J. Allen, president of the 4/5th Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Association, to Jon Wills regarding the arrangements for the anniversary dinner on 10 October 2015.

A menu for the anniversary dinner to commemorate the centenary o the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt held at the 4/5th Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Dining Club on 10 October 2015. The item includes a photograph of the officers of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton in October 1914 and their signatures, the menu and the provenance of twelve candlesticks.

Photographs of the Scott Family and war medals, and letters from relatives agrreing to loan the madels to the school

This sub-series contains books used by pupils during services in chapel or books published by staff or Old Oakhamians and given to the school. A large part of this sub-series contains hymns books compiled by Rev T.C.H. Clare ('29).

A collection of documents relating to Round House, the first purpose-built girls’ boarding house, built in 1972 on what was School House tennis court. The Architect, Tom E. Wilson, designed a building in the shape of a Dovecote, or a Birdcage. The builders were George Duxbury (OO, '34) and Sons. The new house contained thirty bed-sitters on three floors, built around a central spiral stairway. A common room linked the new building with the War Memorial Library. At the back of the Library were built a small flat and domestic offices. Sixty girls moved in from the beginning of the 1972 Winter term and the boarding house was officially opened on 28 October 1972 by Mrs Haywood.