The occasion of the College's Norfolk Commemoration allowed the first Director of the Von Hugel Institute, Rev. Dr. Frank McHugh, to meet with the current Director, Prof. John Loughlin. Prof. Loughlin and Fr McHugh agreed to commemorate the VHI's Silver Jubilee by organising a reunion for all those involved in the work of the VHI since its foundation in 1987.

Professor John Loughlin, Director of the VHI, has been assisting the United Nations-Habitat and the Egyptian government to develop a new system of regional governance and planning for Egypt. After many years of dictatorship and a highly centralized administrative system, Egypt, like many other countries in the world, has been moving towards a more decentralized system.

The Von Hugel Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Caritas in Veritate Foundation based in Geneva. The Foundation, whose Director Dr Matthias Nebel is a past associate of the VHI, is presided over by the Apostolic Nuncio to the United Nations in Geneva and aims to make a practical and effective impact on the international stage. It promotes Christian values and the social teaching of the Church through publications, meetings and conferences, predicated on the ethical foundation of natural law and the complementarity of faith and reason.

The Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Rev. Bernard Longley, is to deliver the 2012 Lattey Lecture.

The Lattey Lecture was founded by Fr Reginald Fuller to commemorate the foundation of the Catholic Biblical Association at St Edmund's College in 1940 by Fr Cuthbert Lattey, S.J.