Alumni services for FE colleges · Since 2012
Help more former students return for their next course.
We run your college's alumni network: keeping former students connected and helping them return when they're ready to study again. A monthly bulletin, course campaigns and reporting, with light-touch input from your team.
Wrenfield is a fictional example. Each network carries the college's branding.
Since 2012 · 35+ colleges Colleges we have worked with
- Activate Learning
- Barnsley College
- Buckinghamshire College Group
- Cambridge Regional College
- Capital City College
- Christ the King Sixth Forms
- City of Bristol College
- City of Westminster College (United Colleges Group)
- City of Wolverhampton College
- Coleg Gwent
- The College of West Anglia
- Derby College
- Dudley College of Technology
- HSDC
- Leicester College
- Lewisham College and Southwark College
- Lincoln College
- London South East Colleges
- MidKent College
- Milton Keynes College
- North Hertfordshire College
- Richmond upon Thames College (HRUC)
- Truro and Penwith College
- Warwickshire College Group (WCG)
- West Nottinghamshire College
- Wiltshire College & University Centre
A clear route back to
the college
Most of your former students without a university degree are still local years later.1 We keep your college useful and visible to them for years after they leave, so it is front of mind when they want to learn again.
- Your student leavesWe keep the connection
- Useful every monthWork, careers and learning as an adult
- People like themReal stories from your former students
- Their next courseThe right course, when they're ready
- Back with youReturning learners, counted
From January 2027
Help former students use the Lifelong Learning Entitlement
Applications open at the end of October 2026, for courses and modules starting from January 2027. It could help eligible former students return. We put your eligible courses in front of them.
Stories your marketing team can use
Show what your college makes possible, through former students' own experiences.
Connections to support today's students
We invite former students to offer placements, hire apprentices and get involved.
We run it.
Your team approves it.
Your marketing team already has a full workload. We write, design, send, host and report. You approve everything published in your name.
We do
- Monthly bulletin
- Your network website
- Course campaigns
- Stories, data, reporting
You do
- Send a leavers file each year
- Approve bulletins and emails
- Help with the yearly re-enrolment count
What your former students see
How it worksFormer student stories
Short accounts from people who studied at your college: what they did, where it led and what made the difference. Browse by subject or search stories for any word, such as a name, course or leaving year.
George R.HNC Construction, left in 2022
"The College was a great opportunity to build the skills I now use every day in my career."
One thing that made a difference
My tutors gave me the support I needed to face the challenges of the job market.
Read their story
A monthly bulletin
Five original pieces on how work is changing, getting on in a career and learning as an adult. Plus a former student's story, and your courses in the same place every issue.
Find out moreYour network's website
In your college's branding, on its own web address: articles, stories from people who studied with you, and your offer to former students.
The Next-Step Check
Six short questions about where they are now and what they'd like to change. They get a personal summary of real routes back, taken from your own course pages, and can send it to a named adviser at your college.
You see what former students are looking for, by subject and level.
How the service works
- Build the networkEach year, we add your latest cohort of former students.
- Keep in touchA monthly bulletin, a website in your college's branding and a LinkedIn presence.
- Bring them backCourse campaigns, your offer and stories from people like them.
- ReportA quarterly report, and each year a count of who came back.
Think Alumni keeps us in touch with our former students every month, while taking the day‑to‑day work off our hands. We approve everything before it goes out, and it always sounds like us.
Talk to us about your former students
We'll get back to you, usually within one working day. Or email hello@thinkalumni.com
1 At age 27, 85% of non-graduates lived inside the travel-to-work area where they lived at 16. Britton, van der Erve, Waltmann and Xu (opens in a new tab), IFS, 2021; also reported in Xu, IFS, 2025. ↩