YOUR CONTRIBUTION MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE DONOR REPORT 2017
College Finances Donations received by the College in 2015/16 totalled £3.7 million compared with £3.3 million on a comparable basis the year before. This figure includes significant donations for Cowan Court and 64 Storey’s Way graduate house refurbishment, as well as new donations for student bursaries. We are very grateful to all our supporters who have contributed to the College, these donations make a real difference to what we can offer current and future students.
How has your money been spent? Cowan Court
Student Support
Cowan Court, which is named in honour of the Benefactor Fellow Michael Cowan, an alumnus of the College, was officially opened in September 2016. The new £10.6 million building provides 68 hotel-standard double ensuite bedrooms, in addition to a new multi-purpose meeting space called the Sixties Room, named by a group of early undergraduate students at the College, whose names are commemorated outside it. One staircase and 13 rooms are named by individual donors. The Court also includes three fully accessible bedrooms for disabled visitors and residents. Donations to Cowan Court have totalled over £5.4 million and more than 700 donors have contributed to the appeal to make the building a reality.
43% of students received some form of financial support from the College last year — from core entry undergraduate bursaries and graduate studentships that enabled them to take up their places, to small grants that helped them reach their potential in other ways, such as attending research conferences or playing music in a University orchestra. This level of support is maintained by the College each year and has only been made possible because of the generosity of donations made by alumni and friends of the College to a range of student-focused funds including the Annual Fund, specific studentship funds, the foreseeable hardship fund and the new student support fund.
The Tizard New Opportunities Fund
Boat Club
The objective of the Fund is to honour the work of Mr Dick Tizard (1917–2005), Founding Fellow of Churchill College and Senior Tutor. A few examples of what you have helped to fund include assisting with:
The Boat Club is the largest Club at Churchill. The Club was fortunate to have the new combined Colleges Boathouse (with Kings College, Selwyn College and the Leys School) opened in June 2016. The Churchill Mays Room was named ‘The Canon Noel Duckworth Room’ by Mrs Marcia Miller. Donations from alumni help the Club particularly with professional coaching costs at training camp and over the winter, replacement boats and the cost of competing in regattas away from Cambridge. Most recently, the Club was extremely grateful to receive a substantial donation from the family of Don Pinchin (G73) to purchase a new M1 Boat.
• Travel expenses for a placement in Cambodia to work with a conservation NGO • Travel expenses to Hong Kong to take part in Harvard’s Project for Asian and International Relations • Expenses in competing in the RS 400 National Boating Championships • Travel and accommodation expenses to take part in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Donations received 2015/16 The table below lists just some of the donations made for specific purposes during the 12 months:
DONATIONS
TOTAL
Undergraduate Bursaries
£551,332
Graduate Studentships
£208,525
Annual Fund
£57,279
Southern African Bursary Fund
£8,196
Tizard Opportunities Fund
£9,955
Friends of the Archives Centre
£24,342
Alex Hopkins Memorial Fund
£5,225
Hahn Fellowship in Economics
£18,154
Cowan Court
£992,460
64 Storey’s Way rebuilding
£1,000,000
The Annual Fund proceeds this year have been predominantly used to support undergraduate bursaries.
College expenditure on student support in 2015/16
£378,519
Total expenditure on undergraduate student support
£516,185
Total expenditure on graduate student support
£59,381
100
72
Grants to College clubs and societies
Cambridge bursaries for undergraduate
Travel-related grants for undergraduate students
77
57
24
Conference and travel grants for graduate
“Small” grants to individuals for sport, music at
Fully or partially funded studentships for graduate
students
University level or above
students
28
16
16
Conference and research grants for Fellows
Hardship grants were awarded
Students received music bursaries
December 2016 - Telephone Campaign: Supporting the minds of the future Making sure that the best and brightest can come to Churchill to study, irrespective of background or the ability to pay, is only possible with the help of student financial support. This is why raising funds for student support was the focus of the latest Churchill College Telephone Fundraising Campaign which ran from the 5–19 December 2016, when 13 student callers enjoyed a wide range of conversations with over 600 alumni to help raise money for this life-changing resource. The campaign was supported by 330 donors resulting in
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Thank you for arranging Nick Taylor’s telephone call last Sunday. It was a real pleasure to talk with him – he’s an excellent ambassador for the College. Churchill College played a most significant role in my life and I still keep in touch with a number of friends from those years – I’m delighted at the way the College has grown and developed. Ernie Addicott, U61
Find out more: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/support-our-students
the College raising over £480,000, (pledged over 10 years) including £80,000 from alumnus Dr Adrian Hobden (U&G72) whose generous pledge to match fund, pound for pound, the first £80K of donations raised for student support had a massive positive impact on the campaign. This is a marvellous testament to the generosity of our alumni and the College is hugely grateful to all those who pledged their support for the campaign. Our student callers greatly enjoyed their conversations and gained a huge amount from the life experience of our alumni and we have been delighted to receive positive feedback from many of those who participated in the campaign.
Student Support
One of the students who has benefited from support in the past is Anwar Jabar, a 26 year old architect and a PhD candidate at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, Department of Architecture. She first arrived at Churchill in 2013 with the support of the Churchill College Palestinian Scholarship for an MPhil degree in Architecture and Urban Studies at Cambridge. Anwar is in no doubt about the impact the studentship made to her life.
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It has been a life-changing, eyeopening experience on all levels, academic and personal, and I’m very grateful for it because without the funding from Churchill I would never have been able to be here. I have changed as a person and been exposed to the world. Read Anwar’s full story, and other student stories, at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/support-our-students
Winston S. Churchill 1958 College Society Membership of the Winston S. Churchill 1958 College Society, which is entirely voluntary, accords recognition to individuals who pledge, or indicate that they will give, a gift in Will to the College. Each year Members of the Society are invited to attend a special event in College. At this year’s event, guests enjoyed a drinks reception followed by lunch in the Fellows Dining Room and a musical recital by current Churchill student James Micklethwaite.
Legacies Gifts arising from Wills play a key role in enabling the College to fund core needs. Since 1 July 2015, Churchill College has received over £131k in legacy donations ranging from £1,000 to support the Library Book Fund to £100,000 to set up a new Graduate Studentship. Giving through a Will is often the simplest and most affordable way of supporting the College. Churchill College is a charity, which means that for UK tax payers any gift in a Will or codicil to a Will comes out of any inheritance tax liability. There is also a provision which further reduces the rate of inheritance tax on the whole estate
Find out more: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/leaving-a-legacy
from 40% to 36% if 10% of the estate is given to charity. Any level of gift can have an impact and it is very easy to set up a legacy via a codicil to your Will giving either a specific amount or a percentage of the value of your estate. Your legacy can support a fellowship, student bursaries, a new building or restore the fabric of the College, thereby creating a lasting memorial; we are always willing to name these in memoriam, if the gift level is appropriate. Many engineering graduate students have benefitted from Pochobradsky studentships over the last fifty years from the fund set up with the legacy of Bedrich Pochobradsky. In recent years, the legacy of Dick Tizard enabled the College to set up a fund to support a Tizard Junior Research Fellowship.
Marie Finston Legacy Marie Finston, widow of Past Visiting Fellow Morton Finston (1971) very generously left the College an unrestricted gift of ÂŁ3,375 in memory of the much cherished time they spent living together in the Sheppard flats with their two daughters Lisa and Nina.
Ruth and Robert Edwards Bequest The College received the second part of a generous bequest from Ruth Edwards, the wife of Sir Robert (Bob) Edwards, past Fellow, Nobel Laureate and pioneer in IVF medicine, to help fund a studentship in the bio-medical field. Ruth was aware of her husband’s wish to give something back to future generations by leaving a legacy for the College and her bequest has brought this to fruition. Ruth met Bob whilst at Edinburgh University where they were both doing PhDs in Genetics. They had five daughters which was a full-time job for Ruth in the early years but she went on to produce research papers in her own right before developing a wide range of projects including the establishment of : an award-winning herd of angora goats with the help of IVF!
Read both full stories at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/leaving-a-legacy
New Graduate Accommodation Project: 36 Storey’s Way Churchill College has always had one third Graduate (or Advanced) Students and this proportion has been increasing as the nature of graduate studies at Cambridge has been changing with the introduction of many more one year MPhil courses since 2000. We have extended the accommodation on site in stages since 2001, but still have a shortfall of rooms if we wish to achieve our key aim of accommodating all our graduate students for a minimum of two years. Why is this important? Our graduate students tell us that the location and nature of the accommodation available are two
N E W G RA D UAT E H O US E S
of the most important factors in selecting a College at Cambridge. What is more, being able to live within a community of scholars is, for many, the thing that marks out their time here compared with their undergraduate experience elsewhere.
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We have now secured planning permission (legal consent) to build 35 units of accommodation, including 5 studio flats for couples, next to the Wolfson Flats. The buildings are designed by two Churchill alumni, Simon Tucker (U&G86) and Priscilla Fernandes (U04) from Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture. Simon also designed the very popular, award-winning Hawthorne, Bondi and Broers Houses (the “pepperpots”) in 2000. We hope to start construction by the end of 2017 and complete in Spring 2019 but the College needs to raise at least half the cost of the £4.8 million needed in order to make the project financially viable. £1 million has been secured already and we are now seeking pledges or donations for a further £1.5 million in order to complete the project. To achieve this aim, a range of opportunities to support the campaign are now available, from setting up a monthly gift of £10 to naming one of the houses or individual rooms.
Contact the Development office or visit the campaign webpage to find out more: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/graduate-accommodation +44 (0)1223 336240 development@chu.cam.ac.uk
Development Office Churchill College Storey’s Way Cambridge, CB3 0DS +44 (0)1223 336 240 development@chu.cam.ac.uk