Old Sokians UK (OS-UK) is a voluntary charitable association of the past pupils of Dharmasoka College, Ambalngoda Sri Lanka and presently living in the United Kingdom and EU. Our membership is not confined to the UK and we welcome the Sokians from EU and beyond to join us. Our principal objectives are detailed within our constitution, please refer to the Publications section for details.
The idea of establishing a past pupils association had been in the minds of many alumni living in the UK for a long time. On the 2nd of October 2010 an informal meeting was held at Jayamini de Silva's house in Newcastle upon Tyne after her art exhibition “Neth”. Dr. Sunil de Silva, Dr. Samantha de Silva, Ms. Jayamini de Silva Ms. Aruna de Silva, Dr. Deepa Ranjini and Mr. Shiyamin Mohamed participated.
The first general meeting of the association was held on 22nd January 2011 at Stoke on Trent, sponsored by Dr. Samantha de Silva. At this meeting office bearers and committee members were elected to formalise the association with the membership open to Dharmasoka College alumni living in the UK.
Since then the association held their annual general meetings in 2012 in Chessington, Surrey; 2013 in Hays, Middlesex; 2014 in London and 2015 in Redbridge, Essex. Past office bearers can be found in the About Us section.
To facilitate further progression of the association it was decided by a majority vote of the members to change the name of the association to Old Sokians UK (OS-UK). There were several amendments to the constitution and the current constitution of OS-UK is available on the Publications section.
