The Effect of Giving 2018-19

The Effect of Giving

Your support in 2018–19

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Contents Page 3 Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor

University of London Vice-Chancellor Professor Wendy Thomson CBE shares her vision and explains the importance of support from the University’s alumni and friends.

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Highlights of the year

We review the highlights of 2018–19, including substantial support from foundations and the lasting impact made by those who have left a gift to the University in their Will.

Celebrating Leading Women In 2018, the University celebrated 150 years of providing access to higher education for women. Here, we give thanks to our volunteers and the University’s member institutions for their collaboration and support during this milestone year.

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Spotlight on a volunteer

University of London alumnus Alex Chan kindly gave his time to the University by sharing his knowledge in artificial intelligence at our Careers Insights event, and by writing an article for WC1E, our alumni magazine.

10-11 The Warburg Renaissance Project

In 2019, the Warburg Institute launched a £5million fundraising campaign to support a transformational redevelopment to restore the Institute’s original vision and ready it for future generations.

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2018–19: The year in review

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London calling

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Our alumni and friends have a huge impact on the success of the University by giving time and donations. Here, we take a look at the key achievements of 2018–19.

In March 2019, the University launched its first telephone fundraising campaign. We share an insight into the campaign and some of the support we have received from our incredible donors and volunteers.

Supporting the next generation of experts

We meet two of our valued scholarship donors and find out how their vital support provides access to education for students around the world.

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Director of Development Bill Abraham looks at how your support has made a difference.

The University of London’s report The Effect of Giving is published once a year and distributed to donors and volunteers in either hard copy or digital format. The report is also available for download from the University of London website: london.ac.uk/support University of London is an exempt charity and statutory corporation in England and Wales (Company No RC000661)/HMRC Charities Reference X422.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Wendy Thomson CBE Address University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU T: +44 (0)20 7863 1340 E: development@london.ac.uk W: london.ac.uk/support Copyright © University of London 2019. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without prior written permission.

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This publication is produced and edited by the University of London Development Office.

Welcome

As Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, it is my privilege to share with you The Effect of Giving, the University’s annual publication for donors and volunteers.

It is an honour to become the University of London’s Vice-Chancellor and I very much look forward to building on the solid foundation fostered by my predecessors Professor Sir Adrian Smith and Professor Peter Kopelman. I am immensely proud to lead an institution with such deeply held values and a longstanding commitment to improving access to higher education.

In these turbulent and indeed uncertain times, the pursuit of knowledge and the role of education in creating a civil society, both here in the UK and around the world, has never been more crucial. The University’s commitment to widening access to higher education plays a pivotal role, encouraging social mobility and equipping our students with the critical thinking and sense of responsibility required to become global citizens and our future experts and world leaders.

One of my primary undertakings as Vice-Chancellor has been to work in close collaboration with key stakeholders across the University to develop our next five-year strategy, which will guide the institution

Professor Wendy Thomson CBE Vice-Chancellor

through to 2025. In light of the University’s global reach and longstanding history of innovation, a continuation of our commitment to digital excellence, which supports not only our students but also our research, is a cornerstone of this new strategy. Another area of significant focus over the coming years will be supporting the University’s maturing relationships with our independent member institutions, who are themselves unique and world-leading universities.

Finally, I would like to emphasise how grateful we are for the support we receive from our donors and volunteers.

Your generosity has an immense impact on the University, our students and our academic endeavours.

I look forward to sharing updates with many of you in person in the future; in the meantime, I hope that you enjoy reading this edition of The Effect of Giving.

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Highlights of the year Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung gives £1million to the Warburg Renaissance Project We are pleased that the Warburg Institute’s Renaissance Project, a capital redevelopment of the Institute's headquarters, has benefitted from a number of large commitments from trusts and foundations. Among these is a generous lead donation of £1million from the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, which was agreed in March 2019.

The donation was announced by the Warburg Charitable Trust at a special event welcoming members of the extended Warburg family, as well as esteemed guests and supporters of the Institute. This historic moment for the Institute coincided with the launch of the Warburg Family Circle, in support of the Warburg Renaissance, with 26 members from six different countries in attendance at the event.

More recently, the project has received generous support from the Wolfson Foundation, securing £450,000 - the second biggest grant in the Arts & Humanities category. These gifts, along with additional

University of London and Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung representatives

support from the American Friends of the Warburg Institute, provide significant steps towards the fundraising target for the Institute, which will continue to work with the University of London and the Warburg Charitable Trust to achieve the £5million fundraising target. The University is providing £9.5million in core funding, with philanthropic support providing the final £5million for this £14.5million redevelopment.

Please turn to page 10 for more information on the Warburg Renaissance Project.

Senate House Library welcomes Visiting Fellow, thanks to support from the Friends of Senate House Library In July 2019, Senate House Library welcomed Dr Sugata Nandi, Assistant Professor of History at the West Bengal State University, as its first Visiting Research Fellow. The Fellowship, funded in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library, offers postdoctoral researchers up to £10,000 and access to the Library’s world-class collections for three months. The University and Senate House Library are immensely grateful to the Friends of Senate House Library, who funded half of this year’s Fellowship.

Dr Nandi’s research explores how India came to evoke an image of mysticism in the West, becoming a place of spirituality and the supernatural, even in today’s world.

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Dr Sugata Nandi

reports, books, illustrations and silent films created by European colonialists, Dr Nandi’s work will culminate in a book examining magical accounts unique to India, spanning 1790–1950.

As part of his Fellowship, Dr Nandi delivered a lecture on the findings of his research to an audience of Library users, current students and the Friends of Senate House Library in September 2019.

To find out more about the Friends of Senate House Library, please visit london.ac.uk/senate-house-library/ friends

University of London Institute in Paris graduate receives Convocation Trust prize The University of London Convocation Trust provides grants in support of scholarships and academic prizes, across the central academic bodies of the University and its member institutions. Many of these have been made possible thanks to generous donations from former members of Convocation. Each year, the Dr Guenther Prize, funded by a gift from Dr Isolde Guenther, is awarded to the student who graduates with the highest marks in a modern foreign European language.

University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) graduate Daniel Baker was awarded the Dr Guenther Prize in 2018, after achieving top marks for his BA in French Studies with History. One year on, Daniel reflects on the impact of University of London Institute in Paris his award: Guenther Prize was a massive confidence boost for “ The me. I am a first generation university student, so having

Daniel Baker

Legacy gifts provide lasting support for the University

my parents see me graduate with First Class Honours and being awarded the Guenther Prize really helped them to understand what I was capable of - and it convinced me too! This prize helped alleviate my financial worries of further education, as I used it towards my commute to King’s College London for my MA in Modern History.

In 2018–19, the University received a number of generous legacy gifts, totalling more than £1.3million. These substantial and important donations will benefit a number of University priorities and activities, including student bursaries and support for Senate House Library.

I am under no illusion that this prize played a huge role in securing my place at King’s College London for my MA, and for securing, not only a place for a joint-PhD at Cardiff and Southampton universities, but also securing full funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. This has given me the chance to go all the way and pursue my dream of becoming a historian of modern France.

These meaningful gifts make a real difference to the University, as they allow us to plan for the future and have a lasting impact that benefits generations to come. Unrestricted legacy gifts enable students from across the globe to access world-class education, regardless of their social or financial background.

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The Prize is named after Dr Isolde Guenther, a member of the Standing Committee of Convocation and a Senator of the University between 1983 and 1988. To find out more about the Convocation Trust, please see london.ac.uk/convocation-trust

For more information on leaving a gift to the University in your Will, please contact Lindsay Triggs, Regular Giving and Stewardship Manager: lindsay.triggs@london.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7863 1340 or visit our website london.ac.uk/legacy-giving

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Celebrating Leading Women Reflecting on 2018’s Leading Women celebrations In 1868, nine women were admitted to the University of London to take a ‘special examination’ – the first time in the UK that women had formally gained access to university education.

Throughout 2018, the University of London marked the 150th anniversary of this moment with its Leading Women campaign. Celebrating the stories of 150 remarkable women associated with the University through blogs, podcasts, an art competition and immersive theatre, staging events from panel discussions to mentoring sessions at the Women of the World Festival, and funding 150 scholarships for the next generation of women students, the campaign aimed to promote and reinforce the role of women in global higher education.

The Leading Women initiative has been recognised with a number of awards, including the 2019 Guardian University Award in the category of ‘Marketing and Communications Campaign’ and the 2019 ContentEd Award for ‘Best Content-led Campaign’, achievements of which we are immensely proud.

The aim of Leading Women was not only to raise awareness of this important anniversary, but also to highlight the incredible work of women around the globe, starting with 150 women affiliated with the University. From authors to crystallographers, presidents to botanists, each of these women made their mark on culture and society and have all been pioneers in different ways. We also highlighted ‘forgotten’ historical women, including England’s first female barrister, Helena Normanton.

The University’s Development Office and central Communications team worked closely with the communications, alumni and development teams at all of the University’s member institutions to identify, approach and profile our Leading Women.

Over the course of the year, we invited alumni, friends and the public to join us for 40 celebratory events including lectures, festivals, workshops, screenings and much more. We spoke with alumnae at the Women of the World festival and Open Garden Squares weekend, we toasted Mary Shelley at the immersive public engagement event ‘Living Frankenstein’, and unveiled a permanent sculpture in Bloomsbury as a memorial dedicated to those first women students. Discussions were started and questions posed at ‘Worldwide Conversations’, the Golden World Award winning series of international events, featuring our alumnae, that spread our message and goals across the globe.

In November, the University hosted our annual Foundation Day, presided over by HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London and one of our Leading Women. At this event, we honoured and highlighted the achievements of our remarkable Leading Women, with all of our five honorary fellows and graduands being women. As the campaign drew to a close in January 2019, Leading Women from across the world were invited to a closing event hosted by HRH The Princess Royal at St James’s Palace.

Early female students at the University of London

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Leading Women celebrations at Senate House

In addition, the University commemorated Leading Women with the installation of a permanent timeline in Senate House focussing on women’s achievements.

The legacy of Leading Women is the renewed commitment of the University to the importance of education and to pursuing access to education for all. 150 years ago we had a vision which was farseeing. We are now renewing our commitment to give opportunities to all groups in society who have been, and continue to be, under-represented (or indeed underachieving) in higher education and employment because of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, In connection with Leading Women, we are delighted to have named our newest student residence Eleanor Rosa House after Eleanor Grove and Rosa Morison, founding Principal and Vice-Principal of College Hall, the University’s first hall of residence for women students. In 1883, Morison became the University of London’s first ‘Lady Superintendent of Women Students’, with responsibility for women studying at University College London and the London School of Medicine for Women, which had been established in 1874 by Leading Woman Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. On their deaths, Eleanor and Rosa established the Grove Morison Fund, which supported students and alumnae through the College Hall Old Students Association (CHOSA). In 2018, CHOSA donated the remainder of the fund (more than £11,000) to the University in support of student hardship funds. Eleanor Rosa House opened in autumn 2019 and we were delighted to give CHOSA

members a preview tour of the building in early September.

gender reassignment, disability, because they are coming out of care, or because of their faith. To all of these groups and individuals, we will re-emphasise our mission and we look forward to reflecting this in our next strategic plan.

See the full list of our Leading Women and watch a video of the year’s celebrations on our website: london.ac.uk/leading-women To find out more about how you can help us achieve our mission, contact development@london.ac.uk

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Eleanor Rosa House © Robert Greshoff

Spotlight on a Volunteer Alex Chan (BSc Management Studies 1996) University of London alumnus Alex Chan is a technology industry veteran, with almost 20 years of experience in the sector. He caught the world’s attention by launching one of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) video search engines through his latest company, Babbobox, which pioneers the use of a multi-modal approach for unified search by combining various AI and cognitive technologies. Through this breakthrough, Alex created the world’s first unified search engine.

In April 2019, we were fortunate to have Alex share his knowledge with UoL students and alumni from Malaysia and Singapore, by delivering a fascinating and lively talk on The Effects of AI and Digital Disruption on the

Workplace. Speaking as part of the University’s Careers Insight event at Amity Global Institute in Singapore, Alex explored the challenges and advantages of integrating unfamiliar technologies and AI in the workplace, giving attendees the chance to learn how to stay ahead of a rapidly-developing digital market. This also included a demonstration during which Alex tracked the emotions of those in the room with the help of live facial examination technology.

Events like these help us to give back to and engage our alumni community the world over, with topical content relevant to their careers. We are hugely grateful to Alex for volunteering his time and expertise in this way. You can view Alex’s talk online at bit.ly/Alex-Chan Alumni were given another opportunity to learn Alex’s insights on AI and its impending impact on the education sector, in the most recent edition of the University’s alumni magazine, WC1E. Here, we are pleased to share an excerpt from the article, in which Alex explains that those who embrace the development of AI are the ones who will benefit most from it. You can read the feature in full at london.ac.uk/wc1e

Alex Chan

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Alex Chan

is the process of acquisition of knowledge. “ Education However, knowledge has been bound by two attributes.

Firstly, knowledge is bound by where it resides and the medium that it is being transmitted through. If the book that contains that piece of knowledge you require is sitting somewhere in a library, then your only option is to go to the library in person and borrow the book. For formal education, knowledge is traditionally facilitated by a human person whom we call teacher, lecturer, instructor, etc.

The internet has broken this physical boundary in many ways, by making knowledge available online in the form of digital books, images, videos and streaming. AI, coupled with other technologies like 5G and virtual/mixed reality, will take education to the next level. It is not inconceivable that, in future, students are taught by an AI-driven avatar to enable personalised learning at his or her own pace.

It would be impossible for a human teacher to do this at scale, in multiple locations and 24/7 on-demand.

Secondly, knowledge is bound by the language that it is in. Even if you are looking at what you need, that piece of information is as good as useless if you don’t understand the language. This is the biggest problem that we are facing today. As of 2015, Google estimated that they scanned, applied OCR (optical character recognition) and digitised 25 million books in the Google Books project. It is estimated

that 18,000 years’ worth of videos are uploaded to YouTube every year. The point is that the amount of information being generated is far outstripping human’s ability to extract, translate, index and make knowledge discoverable.

With AI, we can use ICR (intelligent character recognition) for recognising handwriting; machine transcription to extract speech to text from videos; to translate to any language to make that piece of knowledge searchable and accessible.

Not because humans cannot do all the above, but because we must consider at what cost? AI can do these things at scale, and speed. Granted some of these processes will need human intervention, but AI will reduce the workload tremendously when used wisely.

If your business is education, but you have not explored how AI will transform education, be prepared to be disrupted. That’s because AI is not coming; it’s already here, and the winners will likely be those who use AI.

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Our thanks go to Alex for sharing his insights and for the support he has shown as part of our global volunteer community. To learn more about our volunteering opportunities, please contact development@london.ac.uk

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The Warburg Renaissance:

Transforming the Warburg Institute

The Warburg Institute

The Warburg Institute is embarking on a £14.5million architectural and intellectual transformation of its home in Bloomsbury. As part of this project, the Institute launched a major capital fundraising campaign, seeking to raise £5million towards this visionary redevelopment.

only academic institution saved from Nazi Germany to survive intact in Britain. The Warburg was given in trust to the University of London in 1944 and is now one of the nine research institutes that make up the University’s School of Advanced Study. In 1958, the Institute moved to its permanent home in the heart of Bloomsbury – nestled between the British Museum and the British Library and opening onto Woburn, Gordon and Torrington Squares.

The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It was established in Hamburg as the privatelyfunded library of Aby Warburg (1866-1929), the scholarly scion of one of Germany’s great banking families. When it was created, it attracted Germany’s best scholars, and the Institute continues to inspire some of the world’s most influential academics, curators and artists.

In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, the Institute’s collections and staff were evacuated to London. Thanks to the support of the Warburg family, Samuel Courtauld and others, the Warburg Institute would become the Aby Warburg (far right) and brothers

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The Warburg Renaissance is driven by a complete renovation of the Institute’s much-loved but longneglected building, designed – like most of the University’s Bloomsbury Estate – by Charles Holden, best known for his work on nearby Senate House and dozens of stations across the London Underground. The project provides the opportunity to renew the Institute’s founding mission and apply it to contemporary cultural, political and social understanding. It will bring Aby Warburg’s ambitious vision to life and fill in Holden’s never-completed courtyard, enhancing the Institute’s academic resources, teaching facilities and public offerings, and creating new facilities for special collections, exhibitions, and events. Through creating a more open and accessible building, the Institute will be able to welcome and educate a wider audience.

The new public hub will revive the Institute’s early emphasis on display, nearly double the size of the lecture theatre, and introduce a new digital laboratory in expansive, double-height spaces on the ground floor. A teaching suite with enlarged seminar rooms and improved group study areas will help the Institute meet its ambitious targets for growing its postgraduate programmes and student community. The Library will be expanded to allow for at least 20 years of growth, along with refurbished stacks and improved climate control.

In addition, the Archive and Photographic Collection will be relocated into new, purpose-designed spaces, alongside bespoke labs for conservation and imaging.

Architects' Impression of the courtyard

The total project cost is £14.5million and the University of London has committed the core budget of £9.5million. Thanks to its community of generous supporters, the Institute had raised £1.65million by the end of the financial year 2018-19 (£2.3million at the time of going to print), against the remaining target of £5million. The Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung provided the significant first step for the campaign with a lead donation of £1million in March 2019. This was followed by a gift of £200,000 from the American Friends of the Warburg Institute, a membership group of USbased supporters and alumni who exist to support the strategic aims of the Warburg and promote the Institute in North America. Most recently, the Wolfson Foundation committed a grant of £450,000, the second biggest grant in the Arts & Humanities category for the Foundation’s bi-annual funding round.

The Institute will intensify efforts to secure the support needed to deliver this ambitious programme by working with the University of London Development Office and the Warburg Charitable Trust, an independent charity devoted to the advancement of the Institute, which recently welcomed three new Trustees to the board.

For further information on the Warburg Renaissance, visit warburg.sas.ac.uk/warburg-renaissance To find out more about how you can contribute towards the project, please contact Lewis Jones, Development Manager for the Warburg Institute:

Architects' impression of completed renovation

lewis.jones@sas.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7862 8893

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2018–19: The year in review The Development Office continues to build on the successes of years gone by, in support of the University’s strategic needs. Below, we reflect on some key achievements from 2018–19.

Philanthropy The University raised a total of

£3,577,803 in 2018–19, an increase of more than

35%

Regular giving to the University continues to grow,

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Donations to the University were from a total of donors, exactly double the number of donors in 2017–18.

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Philanthropic support from trusts and foundations remains a vital source of funds for the University, with the first

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£1million

donation from a foundation pledged in 2018–19.

Engagement Globally, more than individuals generously gave their time in support of both the University and our students in 2018–19.

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We continued to expand our programme of professional development activities and events for our

60,000 alumni in Singapore.

Over the course of 2018–19, the Development Office reached out to more than

100,000 alumni and friends over email, which represents an increase of

45%

on 2017–18.

London calling

In March 2019, current and former University of London students made phone calls to alumni and friends of the University, asking them to support our strategic fundraising priorities with a donation.

Our team of student and alumni fundraisers had a wonderful time speaking with alumni, finding out more about what they have been up to since graduating, and getting to know more about the connections the Friends of Senate House Library and Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS) members have with the University.

For many of the students calling, this activity provided a valuable opportunity to build their communication and negotiation skills, as well as giving them a chance to find out more about the different career paths which have been pursued by our alumni.

For many of the alumni we spoke to, it was their first opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the University since they graduated and to hear about what is happening at the University today. The team received some fantastic feedback from alumni who were delighted to reconnect with the University and proud to share their life and career achievements.

We are also pleased that a number of individuals were subsequently inspired to support the University, our students, programmes and facilities, with many choosing to make a regular gift each month.

University of London students and alumni who were part of our calling team

In addition to vital financial gifts to the University, our alumni and friends chose to support our endeavours in a number of other ways. Members of SALS gave valuable feedback on the types of content they would like at SALS events and in Amicus Curiae, the Society’s journal, and 13 of them indicated that they were willing to mentor students. In addition, the Friends of Senate House Library gained 11 new members from the campaign.

In total, the team raised £20,665 and 66 of our alumni and friends became donors to the University. This included an alumnus who, following his phone call from a student, was moved to make a generous gift of £1,000 through our website. To all those who took the time to speak with the team and have supported the University in this way, thank you. We look forward to speaking with more alumni in future calling campaigns.

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Supporting the next generation of experts The University of London was the first institution to give students the opportunity to study wherever they are in the world, pioneering global access to education. For almost 200 years, this unique approach to education has improved the lives of millions of people around the world.

Our distance and flexible learning programmes are supported with academic direction from our worldclass member institutions and, through their delivery, are open to all, regardless of their geographic location.

They give students from all walks of life the opportunity to undertake their studies with a world leader in higher education.

However, for many students cost can still be a substantial barrier to pursuing their dreams of higher education. Scholarships are vital in providing access for these students, who otherwise would be unable to further their education and careers.

In 2018–19, 11 students benefitted from fully funded scholarships, thanks to donations from people like you.

Dr Mark McHale and Sally McHale generously established the McHale Scholarship as they understand the impact that education has on social mobility, and they have a shared passion to support the next generation of professionals working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Both Mark and Sally are graduates of the University, having studied and met at Queen Mary, University of London in the 1980s. Sally studied English Literature and Mark studied Genetics and Microbiology, before going on to complete his PhD in Molecular Sally McHale and Dr Mark McHale Biology at the University of East Anglia. He is now the Chief Development Officer and Head of Research and Development with Aslan Pharmaceuticals, based in Singapore.

The first McHale Scholarship was awarded to Monica, a student who applied to study an MSc in Clinical Trials with academic direction from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

I really appreciate this opportunity as it has made me gain so much information concerning clinical trials as a whole.

I deeply appreciate the support my sponsor has given me.

Monica – McHale Scholarship recipient

Monica (MSc Clinical Trials student)

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Afterword from Bill Abraham, Director of Development

I am sincerely grateful to all of you who have supported the University in the past year – thank you! To those of you who made a donation, supported us with your time, or helped us via your organisation – and whether this was here in the UK or overseas – your contributions during 2018–19 had an enormous impact on the University and helped us continue our mission to enable access to education around the world. It is immensely encouraging that philanthropic support to the University continues to grow year on year. We have enjoyed a truly fantastic 12 months, where we have seen significant growth in our donor numbers and made substantial progress in our global volunteering opportunities.

Our engagement with the University's alumni and friends continues to go from strength to strength. In 2018–19, we directly interacted with more than 2,000 friends and alumni, as well as communicating with a further 100,000 through regular email communications and social media. I am also humbled by the continuing increase in donor numbers – last year there were 232 donors to the University – which apart from the immense impact that this has on our work, shows a growing understanding and confidence in the role of philanthropy in supporting our mission to provide access to education. In total, we saw £3,577,803 in 'new funds raised', which represents a 35% increase on the previous year – with a significant legacy gift to the University in addition to a lead donation of £1million to the visionary Warburg Renaissance from the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung.

I was especially proud to see the Development Office undertake our first telephone campaign this year, which sought to reengage alumni and friends of the University.

It proved to be an incredibly rewarding experience for our student callers, who were able to build their communication skills, as well as have the opportunity to find out about the various career paths our alumni have taken. We received invaluable feedback from alumni who were genuinely pleased to reconnect with us after many years and were proud to share their achievements, with many of them attributing their career and life successes to their University of London education.

We are eager to build on this success with future campaigns and look forward to engaging in dialogues with alumni and friends from across our global network.

As part of our ongoing efforts to fundraise in a global capacity, we have now achieved tax efficient giving status in Hong Kong and the USA. For more information on the many ways you can give to the University, please visit: london.ac.uk/how-to-give

As we look ahead, we aim to continue to grow our support from alumni and other stakeholders, who share our values and our passion to make education open and accessible to all. It is this support that enables us to build on our reputation for excellence in world-class education, to support innovative research, and further enhance our students' experience.

On behalf of the University and all those who have benefitted from your support, thank you! It is impossible to put a value on the relationships we are building with our alumni and supporters, and I am immensely proud of what we do and the impact we are having around the world. Thank you so much for your continued support.

Bill Abraham, Director of Development

Stay in touch Wherever you are in the world, and whenever or whatever you studied, we invite you to stay connected and be an active part of the University of London community.

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If you would like more information or wish to discuss how you could support the University of London, please visit london.ac.uk/support or contact us.

Bill Abraham Director of Development Email: bill.abraham@london.ac.uk Holly Peterson Head of Constituency Engagement Email: holly.peterson@london.ac.uk Maja Vukicevic Head of Development Email: maja.vukicevic@london.ac.uk Lindsay Triggs Regular Giving and Stewardship Manager Email: lindsay.triggs@london.ac.uk Telephone +44 (0) 20 7863 1340 Š University of London 2019

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