The Swiss Benevolent Societyand the Cambridge University Swiss Club In partnership with Casper Pullen-Freilich, President of the Cambridge University Swiss Club, SBS sponsored a pre-exam breakfast for Swiss students at Cambridge. Around thirty students gathered over Swiss food, familiar flavours, and the kind of conversation that only happens when you are…Continue reading→
Exam season in the UK is long and overlapping — Scottish students are already weeks in, while GCSEs, A Levels, IB, and university finals are all running simultaneously. The pressure lands on students and parents alike, often in ways that are hard to articulate. Beyond our financial support, SBS Welfare Officer Lily Saunders is here to listen — for students and parents, without judgement, throughout the exam period. You do not need to be in crisis to reach out. You simply need to feel that a conversation would help. That is reason enough.Continue reading→
Most of us are remarkably good at organising life. What we are less practised at is asking whether the life we organise actually sustains us. This month, the SBS calendar theme invites a different kind of attention — not to what needs fixing, but to what needs adding back in. A conversation. A proper meal. An evening with nothing scheduled at the end of it. Thriving, it turns out, tends to begin in exactly those gaps.Continue reading→
