Our new Campaign: For Mansfield. Forever.

For Mansfield. Forever.

Introducing our transformative new Campaign.

We’ve always set out to change things. From our proud history of dissent and pioneering support for human rights, to our ongoing mission to democratise access to a world-class education. In fact, at Mansfield our commitment to change is one thing that never changes.

We’ve helped change thousands of lives, and as part of Mansfield’s community, we’d like to think we’ve changed yours too.

Now we’re intent on transforming our own future so that we can create more opportunities for brilliant people to have a life-changing experience at this amazing college. And we need your support.

When you arrive at Mansfield today, you can see a great deal from the front gates. You see our magnificent, historic buildings; you see students heading into tutorials or meeting up with friends; you might even see Beatrice and Basil, the College cats, lurking under a windowsill.

But it’s what you don’t see, what you can’t see, that really sets us apart.

Our buildings are beautiful, and they are open to anyone with the potential and commitment to succeed.

Mansfield’s students are hardworking and high-achieving, and they come from more diverse and representative backgrounds than anywhere else in Oxford.

Our community is welcoming and friendly, and we seek to include the excluded. Always.

This is a new era for Mansfield. For a college stepping forward to transform and modernise our site, champion our world-class teaching, and create life-changing opportunities for generations of students to come. For a future in urgent need of experts and leaders from every walk of life – now more than ever.

For our People, who make a world-class education accessible to all.

For our Place, where generations of you have found and will always find a home, a community, and yourselves.

For our Culture, knowing that if you have the talent and the potential to succeed – we see you, we welcome you, and we are here to create opportunities for you.

For Mansfield. Forever.

Find out more www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/forever

We change lives. And we'll never change.

Our ability to discover talented people, and then guide them to success within the world’s best university, is proven. We are determined to secure it.

Led by our dynamic Principal, Helen Mountfield KC, we are embarking on the largest and most ambitious fundraising campaign in our 138-year history.

People

Academic excellence, and our community of educators, are at the heart of the College and the student experience.

We aim to secure the College’s key posts, most notably our tutorial positions, so that our undergraduates are always taught by leaders in their fields. We aim to endow at least one Fellowship in each of our main subjects.

Place

A world-class education requires world-class facilities. We will provide an environment in which Mansfield’s hardworking students are fully equipped to live, to learn, and to succeed.

We will seek to redevelop the south side of the College site, currently occupied by the John Marsh building, to deliver a greater number of student bedrooms and further space for teaching, research, and recreation while enhancing the historic Champneys buildings and taking Mansfield to net zero.

Culture

‘Access’ is not just about admitting a broad range of students to Mansfield. It is about having the determination and resources to enable them to thrive when they are here.

We seek to secure a strong programme of academic and social support – from scholarships, to hardship funds, welfare provision, sports, music, and our many societies –so that every student at Mansfield from every background can fully engage with and enjoy their time at Oxford.

Our Campaign, For Mansfield. Forever. is how we intend to achieve all of these aims.

A transformational gift of £25m, the largest in the College’s history, from Chris Foster (Maths, 1997) has kick-started our Campaign. With many other alumni supporting us too, we hope our entire community will be inspired to get involved at this landmark moment for Mansfield.

Your support, at any level, is and will continue to be absolutely crucial to accomplishing our goals.

As our Principal, Helen Mountfield, explains: ‘There’s nowhere else like Mansfield. We have a community of intellectual pioneers and experts, deeply committed to making the very finest education available to everyone with the capacity and dedication to thrive here, at the heart of a world-leading university.

‘I am determined to ensure that everyone who joins our community has everything they need to thrive: expert-led teaching and supervision, world-class facilities, and the support to seize every opportunity presented to them.’