We sincerely thank

• The High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in the UK, Mrs Kshenuka Seneviratne for gracing the occasion as the Chief Guest.
• The Worshipful Mayor of London Borough Council of Enfield, Chief Superintendent of Metropolitan Police Service and The President of the MCC for gracing the occasion as Guests of Honour.
• St John's Ambulance.
• Bank of Ceylon for being the main sponsor of the festival.
• Ceylinco Consolidated UK, VX Telecom and Red Bull Company for being the co-sponsors.
• SriLankan Airlines for hosting the Band and the Vocalists, providing return air tickets for the raffles and printing the entry and car park tickets.
• Qatar Airways and CCL Solutions for their support.
• The Management and the staff of Winchmore Hill Cricket Club for their assistance in conducting this event. .Business and Trade stall holders, Old Girls Associations and Advertisers in the souvenir.
• Newslanka, Silvarrow and Lanka Tribune newspapers and Lanka Udanaya Radio for giving publicity to the event, and Sirasa TV for coverage of the event.
• Mr. Nimal Navaratne for the photographs, Mr. Hugh Thomas for the Cross Word and Mr. Chandana Seneviratne for the FOC Logo.
• All members of the Executive Committee and all representatives of the participating OBAs for their contribution in organising this event.
• Lihiniya Restaurant for support in hosting the General Committee meetings.
• Mr. Bernard Fernando for maintaining and Mr. Brian Ratnayake for financing the FOC Website.
• All others who have helped in various ways for staging the festival successfully

Our sincere thanks to

• Mrs. Kshenuka Senewiratne, High Commissioner for the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in the UK and Mr. Suren Senewiratne for being our chief guests of honour at the Festival.
• Jay Eddirappuli & Clubworld Sports & Holiday for so kindly being our main sponsor.
• D Jeyraj of V X Communications and shandy Ravichangdran of White Cliffs Group I Farrell Xtensions for being co-sponsors at this event.
• The worshipful Mayor of Hertsmere Borough Council, Councillor Martin Heywood and Mayoress Councillor Jean Heywood for being present as our guests of honour.
• Chief Superintendent Metropolitan Police Services Alison Roome-Gifford for being present as our guest of honour.
• Sri Lankan Airlines for hosting Misty, the band from Sri Lanka and providing return air tickets for many raffle competitions.
• Qatar Airways for their continued support and sponsorship of our hospitality facilities.
• The management and staff of the shenley Cricket Centre for al their assistance in putting this event together.
• All advertisers, Old Girls' and Boys' Associations, business and trade stall holders for their participation at the Festival.
• Mr. & Mrs. Upali & Meepali Jothiratna and their staff at Lihiniya Restaurant for their continued support in accommodating and hosting the General Committee meetings at their establishment.
• Lewke Printers for their assistance in putting together and printing this souvenir.
• Print Tone Ltd for printing various leaflets.
• Mr. Chin Fernando of News Lanka newspaper.
• Mr. suriya De silva of silvarrow newspaper.
• Mr Akshin Punchiheva from Lanka Udanaya radio programme.
• Mr Daya Ranasinghe of Lanka Viththi newspaper.
• Mr Dugald Gonsal for graphic designing the FOC website.
• Mr Bernard Fernando for maintaining the FOC website.
• Mr. Nimal Navaratne of Wimal Co. for his high quality photographs.
• Mr. Hugh Thomas for the crossword and article on Sri Lanka's Test Match encounters with England.
• To all those who have so kindly contributed by way of articles and photographs to this publication

• Mrs. Kshenuka Senewiratne, High Commissioner for the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in the UK and Mr. Suren Senewiratne.
• Mike Cooke Group – our main sponsor.
• Premier Communications International – our other sponsor.
• Sri Lankan Airlines for hosting the band from Sri Lanka and providing the return air tickets.
• Qatar Airways for their continued support and sponsorship of our hospitality facilities.
• Mr. Arjuna Ranatunga, Hon. Junior Minister for Tourism in Sri Lanka and Mr. Charles Fry, Chairman of MCC, our special guests of honour.
• The management of the Civil Service Sports Grounds and their continued support to the festival.
• All advertisers, Old Girls’ and Boys’ Associations, business and trade stall holders.
• Miss. Jananee Sundarem for designing the cover for the souvenir.
• Mr. & Mrs. Upali & Meepali Jothiratna and their staff at Lihiniya Restaurant for their continued support in accommodating and hosting the General Committee meetings at their establishment. 

• Ashford Printing for their guidance and assistance in printing this souvenir.
• Mr. Chin Fernando of News Lanka and Mr. Reggie Fernando for his support in previous years.
• Mr. Suriya De Silva of Silvarrow.
• Late Mr. Victor Jayanethi of Voice of Lanka for his support over the years.
• Mr. Nimal Navaratne of Wimal Co. without whom we could not have published these high quality photographs.
• To all those who have so kindly contributed by way of articles and photographs to this publication.
• Mr. Akshin Punchihewa of Lanka Udhanaya. ❖Mr. Sunil Bandara of Lewke Printers.

Thanks to Dr Sena Nanayakkara's creative efforts and foresight, an official ‘website' for FOC was launched in January 2000, with the prime aim of providing, up to date information on the progress of present activities, highlights of previous FOC events, and to improve PR & Publicity each year.

Therefore, in moving with the times it became apparent that FOC had to obtain the services of a professional agency for setting up and maintenance of a web site as there were no in-house volunteers. Once set up, regular updating was essential to keep it attractive. FOC needed its own identity (domain) and easy access.

Dr Sena Nanayakkara

The house accepted in principle that establishing a web site would be very useful. Initial exploratory professional costs were significantly high. Kirula Leelasena agreed to assist and guide Dr Nanayakkara to fulfil that cherished dream. He agreed to offer his services entirely free of charge and he also obtained a very easily accessible and most suitable domain which is now registered officially. By default,

Dr Nanayakkara became the typist, reporter, clerk and the editor, and eventually on the 12 th of January 2000 the official website for the FOC was launched.

Our sincere thanks should go to Kirula for his patience, understanding and the enthusiasm shown as the FOC's web master, to Dharme Weerasinghe for the offer of his timely advice, guidance and encouragement, to Jayasiri Jayawardene for supplying the photos, to Jagath (Bernard) Fernando and Richard Wijesekera for collating information, to Indran Duraisingham and Chandra Liyanage for encouragement and information sharing and to all the committee members for their support and encouragement, and above all to Dr Sena Nanayakkara for his untiring effort and total commitment.