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Junior Common Room Committee Fourteen students are elected annually.

Astra Club (Sport)

Founded in 1908 when the hall officially opened. It exists to encourage and improve sport at Wantage.

The Redlands Society

Is the hall's music, art and drama society.

The Hermes Club

This is a club that aims to improve the employment prospects of all students at Wantage. It works with the Wantage Society, Wantage's alumni network to offer informal careers advice and a variety of internships and work placements during the holidays. The Hermes Club Prize is an annual prize that is awarded by The Hermes Club Council to recognise student initiative and enterprise. The club takes its name from the Greek god Hermes who was the god of transitions and boundaries, and protector and patron of travellers, innovation and trade.

Traditions

Wantage has evolved its own traditions and customs, many of which occupy a regular calendar slot. These include the annual Sheep/Black sheep event - which started as way to remind students of the agricultural heritage of the then University college, the annual Madrigals on the 1st of May, Remembrance Day on 11th November and 11am bugle call from the top of the Clock Tower during which the Wantage Flag is lowered to half mast and everyone in the Quad stops and is silent, Opit - the annual garden party in the grounds of Lawn Annexe, Polyglot - the annual celebration of Wantage's international student heritage which is run by all international students, the Wooden Spoon - given to the student who has 'achieved' the lowest marks in the FUE/first year exams, Yard of Ale - given to the student who has achieved the highest score in first year exams, and the Wantage Induction - which is a run that all first year undergraduates do round the perimeter of Wantage Hall in fancy dress, then all Freshers take part in a scavenger hunt, and then in the Old Quad swear the Wantage Oath at Midnight. At the end of the Freshers week there is the Saturday night 'Freshers Gaudy', which is the continuation of a tradition that was adopted by Wantage when Reading University was the extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford University. Formal Dinners

Freshers Formal Founder's Dinner Christmas Formal Burns' Supper Graduand's Dinner

Concert in the Quad

Every summer there is a musical concert in the quad. Summer Ball

The JCR committee organises a big-budget Summer Ball to take place after exams are over. Halloween Masquerade Ball

An annual event where those who don't dress up get to do a variety of 'fun' tasks. There is traditionally a 'survivors' breakfast at 6am. The Wantage Society

The Wantage Society is the alumni society for all undergraduate, post-graduate and research students who have resided at Wantage during all or part of their studies. The society has an annual AGM and dinner at Wantage and also occasional events in London. The society has a governing body made up of elected officials which include; President, Vice-President, Secretary and also the current President of the JCR. Hillside Court residents who were resident in Hillside up to the mid-1990s are also able to join as Hillside was a part of Wantage Hall up to the 1990s. The society produces and distributes a magazine/newsletter to all alumni who are members of the society - The Wantagia.