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Jesus College Cambridge Society (JCCS
Jesus College Cambridge Society
Committee
as of 1 October 2022 President and Chair Ms S ALLEYNE
Trustees 1969 1980 1982 C I KIRKER G R W SEARS E S MORRISS
Officers 1977
1988
1976
J P HALSEY (Hon. Secretary) M C BIENFAIT (Hon. Treasurer) M P HAYES (Hon. Dinner Secretary) College Council representatives 1998 S R L STACPOOLE E WILLIAMS
Year representatives 1996 J HILTON 1996 K T D EAMES
1999 2000 2006 1996 1977 2011 F A R BARRATT N P H KING H I MADUKA N S SINHA R M ALLON-SMITH C L SMALL
2001 2015 1981 P J TWISS R L R SEAWRIGHT M D SMITH
1980 1987 2012 1987 1971 T D HUCKLE O HIWAIZI V D HERRENSCHMIDT C J LEWIS J G MORGAN (Sonita)
(Christopher) (Guy) (Susanna)
(John)
(Mary)
(Mark)
(Sybil) (Emily)
(James) (Ken) (Felicity) (Nick) (Helen) (Narveshwar) (Richard) (Claire) (Paul) (Reginald) (Mark) (Theo) (Omaid) (Victoria) (Clive) (Guy) First elected 2012 2018 2018
2019
2018
2014
2016 2018
2019-2023 2019-2023 2019-2023 2019-2023 2020-2024 2020-2024 2020-2024 2020-2024 2021-2025 2021-2025 2021-2025 2021-2025 2022-2026 2022-2026 2022-2026 2022-2026
Annual General Meeting 2022
The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday 24 September 2022 in the Webb Lbrary, Jesus College at 6.30pm. The Master, Ms Sonita Alleyne OBE, was in the chair and welcomed everyone to the meeting. 34 Jesuans were in attendance, 15 of whom were Committee members (12 current, 3 incoming).
Minutes of 2021 AGM
The meeting accepted the minutes with no amendments.
Secretary’s report
John Halsey reported that, since the 2021 AGM: • The Trustees reviewed JCCS investments and rebalanced the Society ’ s portfolio for more geographic diversity and to remove under-performers, consistent with the objective to support reserves and provide income for grants and bursaries. • The committee met by Zoom on 16th March 2022. • Hamilton Faber was appointed Independent Examiner for the year. • A £6,500 donation from the Society to the College was agreed by the committee; this was transferred in June, to be split £2,500 JCSU, £2,500 Travel bursaries, £1,500 Hardship funding, with detailed allocation to be made at the discretion of the Tutorial Office; feedback on how the money is being spent will be communicated during Michaelmas Term 2022. • The 2021 Annual Accounts were finalised and signed. • The Master presided at the Society ’ s Spring Dinner on 9 April at the Oxford and Cambridge Club; this dinner was well attended, as was the Welsh Dinner on 7 May and the Summer Buffet on 18 June 2022. • Mark Hayes and the Department of Development and Alumni Relations have worked successfully to prepare for this evening ’ s Annual Dinner. In response to a question from Adrian Greenwood about the 2021 donation to the College, which was lower than in recent years, Emily Williams (Director of Development and Alumni Relations) confirmed that the donation had been gratefully received. The Committee will carefully consider the 2022 JCCS donation, having regard to both resources and needs.
Treasurer’s report and annual accounts to 31 December 2021
Mary Bienfait presented the annual accounts which had been signed by herself and by the Independent Examiner, and approved by the Executive Committee on 16 March 2022. The accounts reflected the agreed changes to the Society ’ s investment portfolio and donations to the College, as well as a share portfolio trading and management fee required by the London Stock Exchange, the 2021 figure representing two years of fees. The 2021 year-end market value of JCCS investments was £94.5k. The 2021 Annual Dinner had generated a surplus of £366. The meeting accepted the annual accounts.
Election of Honorary Officers for 2022/23
The three serving JCCS Honorary Officers were willing to continue for a further year. Each were proposed and seconded: Secretary, John Halsey (1977); Treasurer, Mary Bienfait (1988); Dinner Secretary, Mark Hayes (1976). The Master declared the three officers elected.
Appointment of Independent Examiner for 2022
Mary Bienfait proposed Hamilton Faber to serve for a further year, and this was approved by the meeting.
Election of new members of the Executive Committee
The Master thanked members of the committee who completed their term in September 2022: Carolina Gonzalez (1979), Anush Newman (2001), Tom Slator (1971) and Sir David Wootton (1969). The following had been nominated to serve for a term of four years until the AGM in 2026: Victoria Herrenschmidt (2012), Omaid Hiwaizi (1987), Clive Lewis (1987) and Guy Morgan (1971). The Master declared these four elected.
Spring and Annual Dinner arrangements
Mark Hayes (Dinner Secretary) expressed great thanks to the College and especially to Mrs Nikki Williams of the Development and Alumni Relations Office for her work on the Annual Dinner 2022.
An early evening Reception would be held in College in early December, including a tour of the refurbished kitchen and College Halls. Details would be circulated shortly. Accommodation would be available. The Spring Dinner would be held on Saturday 25 March 2023 in the Oxford and Cambridge Club. Ticket prices would be significantly higher than in 2022. Members were invited to subsidise ten reduced price tickets open to Jesuans who had graduated in the past five years. The Annual Dinner 2023 would be in College Hall on Saturday 23 September.
Date of next AGM
This is planned for Saturday 23 September 2023, immediately before the Annual Dinner. n
Old members gather for a row before the JCCS Annual Dinner 2021
VISIT OUR ONLINE GIFT SHOP
www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop
We are very pleased to be able to offer a wide range of gifts and mementoes including cufflinks, silk ties, silver pins, coasters, tote bags, paper weights, tea towels, prints and books, embossed Moleskine notebooks, cuddly teddy bears, the College flag, and CD recordings of the Choirs of Jesus College. You can also purchase any of these items by phone on +44 (0) 1223 339301 or by dropping into the Porters ’ Lodge when you next visit College.
Please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at development@jesus.cam.ac.uk for information on overseas posting or bulk orders.
CARDS AND PRINTS
by NAOMI DAVIES
Well known Cambridge artist Naomi Davies (née Williams, 1987) has created these pen and watercolour paintings of the College which are now available as greetings cards, tea towels and limited edition giclée prints.
Available to order from the College website
www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/gift-shop
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J E S U S C O L L E G E C A M B R I D G E
Jesus College Records Update
Please return to: The Development and Alumni Relations Office Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL e-mail: development@jesus.cam.ac.uk
Data Protection Statement
How we use your personal information
This statement explains how Jesus College (“ we ” and “ our ”) handles and uses data we collect about alumni (“ you ” and “ your ”). In broad terms, we use your data to manage the ongoing relationship between the College and you as part of our lifelong community of scholars, including keeping in touch with you, keeping up to date on your achievements, and engaging with you on how you can continue to contribute to College life and otherwise support the College. We will retain your data indefinitely or until you request us to do otherwise. When changes are made to this statement, we will publish the updated version to our website and notify you by other communications channels as we deem appropriate or necessary. The controller for your personal data is Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL. The person responsible for data protection at the time of issue, and the person who is responsible for monitoring compliance with relevant legislation in relation to the protection of personal data, is the Bursar, Dr Richard Anthony (bursar@jesus.cam.ac.uk). The legal basis for processing your personal data is that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, where we have concluded that our interests do not impact inappropriately on your fundamental rights and freedoms, except where elsewhere in this statement we have indicated otherwise. You may ask us to explain our rationale at any time.
How your data is used by the College
We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including: A. maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements at the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere;
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C. retaining a formal record of your career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively; engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College;
D. providing you with information about College life and the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public;
E. encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions;
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assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College; G. promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you: Further details are provided in the Annex. If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at the address given above.
Communications
If you are a new contact for our Development and Alumni Relations Office, we will ask you at the outset how you would like to receive news and other communications from us. If you are already receiving such communications, you may change your preferences or ask us to stop sending you news and other communications completely by contacting the Development and Alumni Relations Office (development@jesus.cam.ac.uk). You may request changes at any time.
We believe that most alumni understand in detail the complex and many interactions of the College with the University of Cambridge. Personal data of our members is shared with the University routinely throughout any course of study, and it is our strong preference to continue such collaborative working thereafter. The University and its partners (including the College) have a data sharing agreement to govern the sharing of personal data of alumni and other supporters. This is necessary because they are distinct legal entities. The agreement outlines that, depending on constraints set by you, and which you may change at any time, the University and College may share any of the above categories of personal data with the University, and can be viewed in full (https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection). Any transmission of data to or from the University is managed through agreed processes which comply with UK data protection legislation. For clarity, the College has a separate database from the University, but has access to the University ’ s database: additionally, we maintain other electronic and paper records. The University has its own data protection statement and procedures – see: https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection Additionally, we share data on a considered and confidential basis, where appropriate, with: • •
Cambridge in America (the University ’ s affiliate alumni office in the US); selected companies who provide College-branded or College-endorsed products and services, as outlined above; volunteer partners closely related to us (e.g. College trustees, development board members, alumni group representatives); and contractors providing services to you on our behalf or services to us (our “data processors ”), as outlined above. We also facilitate communication between individual alumni (of the College or the University), but in doing so we do not release personal contact details without prior permission. Any transfers of your data overseas or to international organisations, as set out above, are protected either by an adequacy decision by the European Commission or by standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission (which are available from our Data Protection Officer) or, before 25 May 2018, by a self-assessment of adequacy.
Your rights
You have the right: to ask us for access to, rectification or erasure of your data; to restrict processing (pending correction or deletion); to object to communications or direct marketing; and to ask for the transfer of your data electronically to a third party (data portability). Some of these rights are not automatic, and we reserve the right to discuss with you why we might not comply with a request from you to exercise them. Where you opt out of all future communications or exercise your right to erasure, we will continue to maintain a core set of personal data (name, subject(s), matriculation and graduation details, unique University identification number and date of birth) to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in future, while still maintaining our record of your academic achievements. We may also need to retain some financial records about you for statutory purposes (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters). You retain the right at all times to lodge a complaint about our management of your personal data with the Information Commissioner ’ s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
We collect and process your personal data, as specified below, for a number of purposes, including:
A. Maintaining a formal record of your academic progress and achievements of the College and the University of Cambridge and elsewhere:
We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) your current name and any previous names you have had; ii) unique personal identifiers (e.g. student number, CRSID, date of birth, photograph); iii) your current and previous contact details; iv) your application details, our assessment of your application and the details of any offer(s) of study we have made;
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vii) records of your academic provision from the College (including supervisions, College examinations and other academic support); matriculation and graduation details and records of your academic qualifications (including those prior to becoming a member of the College); other details of your academic progress or achievement (e.g. College or University awards or prizes).
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C. Retaining a formal record of your academic, career or other life achievements in order to promote and improve the reputation of the College and help you to network with other College members effectively: We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i) ii) iii) details of your achievements since you completed your course(s) of study; membership of College and external clubs and societies (including alumni groups); your previous and current employment status (including retirement), including job title, sector, income and work contact details, dates of employment. When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can promote these achievements in our public literature, and can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen ’ s Honours List, Companies House, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time.
Engaging you in College and University events that we believe will be of interest to you, including alumni and open events, volunteering opportunities, and other ways you can contribute to the life of the College: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i)
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v) known relationships with other members (past or present) of the University of Cambridge or any of the Colleges; your previous attendance at College or University events; information about your areas of personal interest; personal data relating to your attendance at events and your personal preferences (e.g. dietary or accommodation requirements or requests); records of any communications (verbal or written) we have had with you, including the purpose and outcome of those communications.
When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. We may supplement information from other public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), University publications, high profile news reports or articles) and may check their accuracy with you from time to time.
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F. Providing you with information about the development of the College, including major initiatives and programmes relating to either the academic endeavour or the provision of services and facilities to members and the wider public: We retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i) any communication preferences confirmed by you; ii) ways in which you have supported the College. By providing us with email addresses and telephone numbers, we have taken this to be consent to use those channels to contact you for this and other purposes outlined in this statement, unless you have expressed your preferred communication channels. When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. Encouraging you to make a financial contribution to the College and/or the University, and processing any such contributions: The College ’ s income consists of gifts and benefactions, income derived from prudent investment of any endowment and student fees. We value any financial contribution from our members and, accordingly, retain personal data (provided by you or by the University of Cambridge, or created by us), including: i)
ii) iii) iv)
the purposes and amounts of any donations or other support previously provided to the University or the College by you; the method(s) of payments used and related payment references; your bank details (for processing direct debit or other financial transactions); your tax status and Gift Aid declaration. Some of this financial information needs to be retained for statutory purposes for a number of years (e.g. Gift Aid, anti-fraud and accounting matters). When you provide this information, we will assume (unless you notify us otherwise) that we can use this information for other purposes outlined in this statement. Assessing the likelihood that you will, now or in the future, make a financial contribution (gift) to the College:
G. The College undertakes research to determine your capacity to provide financial support. This results in us creating and using personal data including: i) your estimated income or asset worth (where this is not provided by you); ii) your potential capacity to make a gift, including our internal classification of you as a major gift prospect which is determined by a combination of your giving history, your attendance at College and University events, and your other interactions with the College since you graduated, including any positive or negative indications from you about your capacity or willingness to give to the College;
iii) gifts you have made to other charitable organisations.
Our research includes incorporating information from public sources that we consider to be reliable (e.g. your public social media profile(s), Queen ’ s Honours List, Companies
House, high profile news reports or articles). In using these sources, we have considered the potential intrusion of your privacy. In most cases, our assessment above aims to exclude you from unwelcome or inappropriate approaches so as not to compromise your ongoing relationship with us.
Promoting third party services we believe will be of interest to you:
We retain personal data (provided by you), including: i) any preferences to be excluded from such services. We do not sell your personal data under any circumstances.If you have concerns or queries about any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us. https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/about-us/data-protection
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Our exceptional standards are demonstrated by our AIM Secure and 5* Visit England accreditations. The College has an excellent reputation for repeatedly delivering outstanding events for clients such as the Judge Business School, AstraZeneca and Microsoft Research, as well as a plethora of public sector organisations, University departments, societies and associations. Discounts on bookings are available, both for your own events and those you refer. It’ s easy to enquire and book. All you have to do is email conference@jesus.cam.ac.uk, copy in the event organiser if it is not yourself, and our friendly team will swiftly get back to you.
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