Donor news MANSFIELD COLLEGE
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ISSUE FIVE
IN THIS ISSUE The new Hands Building opens Academic prizes Pulling out the stops for Mansfield’s organ Thank you 2017 leavers Mansfield calling – College telethons in 2016/17 Where your support has been directed Donors to Mansfield 2016/17
Development Office Mansfield College University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TF E development@mansfield.ox.ac.uk T +44 (0)1865 270825 W www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk Mansfield College Charity Number: 1143860
Celebrating the impact you are making at Mansfield Mansfield is going from strength to strength thanks to our supporters and the projects you have backed. Every student is benefitting in some way from the donations that have been so generously given, whether it be from using the café, books in the library, living in the new accommodation or from receiving academic grants. In this report we shall share some of the wonderful stories received and tell you about the projects we have been able to achieve over the last year, thanks to your support. Our growing number of donors are making a powerful impact here. In 2017, the final stages of Mansfield’s most ambitious undertaking in recent years – the construction of the new Hands Building (formerly Love Lane) – were completed. The project would not have been possible without the hundreds of you who made donations to the campaign. In this edition of Donor News, we take a closer look at the new building. As well as these physical transformations to College, we have also been increasing the number of academic prizes available and boosting our student support. We hope that all students have a positive experience during their time at Mansfield, but appreciate that some will encounter
challenges in their personal or academic lives. Therefore, providing students with the opportunity to turn to welfare and counselling services, or apply for financial support should they need to, is vital. In addition, we are maintaining our outreach work to encourage students from schools and areas that usually see few Oxbridge applications. Your donations continue to help these important areas. Mansfield’s biannual telethons had another successful year in 2016/17. Our student teams phoned from the Theology Library and the Garden Building and reached hundreds of College alumni. We enjoyed hearing your favourite memories of Mansfield and finding out what you have been doing since leaving College. Thank you to all who took a call and special thanks to everyone who chose to make a donation to our College priorities, or offered to support College in some other way. We are extremely grateful to our donor community. Those of you who have had the opportunity to visit Mansfield recently will have seen first-hand how your gifts are helping to make a difference here. We hope you enjoy reading more about this in the following pages of Donor News.
Mansfield donor news 2016/17