THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE

DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2018

Thank you

It has been a wonderful year for development in College. Following the success of the New Library project, we decided to focus our efforts in 2018 on the people of Queen’s – the academics, the students, the staff, and visitors who make our community so special.

As such, we launched Access All Areas, our three-year fundraising programme (2017-2020) which supports our students at every stage of their time here, and beyond. There are four main areas: Access & Outreach, which encourages talented students in underrepresented regions to apply to Oxford; Student Support, which provides funds for current students in their extracurricular activities and supports living costs; Graduate Funding, which provides much-needed support for researchers; and the Tutorial System, which raises funds for Fellowships in specific subject areas.

Some significant gifts have enabled major projects to be established and you can read about these in the following pages. Most notably is the substantial gift of £3.6 million received from the Waverley Fund, which will increase our offering to graduate students and advance our standing in Oxford as a centre for academic research.

At the same time, many of you came together to ensure the four essential stages of Access All Areas can continue to support our community. These areas have seen other exciting developments: the introduction of travel grants for those who live more than 125 miles away from Oxford; an online platform on the College website that allows prospective students to ask our current members questions about life at Oxford; the expansion of subject prizes offered to our students - to name but a few.

Thank you to all who have chosen to support Queen’s this year and who continue to support us. Without your help, none of these exciting changes could have happened.

It gives me great pleasure to be able to share with you the highlights of another fantastic year for fundraising at The Queen’s College, a testament to the continued generosity of our Old Members and friends. Your support for both our current and future students has enabled us to open doors for them that may have otherwise remained closed. It has also helped us sustain the tutorial system and build the learning spaces that make the time spent at Queen’s such a life-changing experience.

We understand that when you give to Queen’s you are placing your trust in us as a charity. In the Old Members’ Office it is our job to ensure that your donation is spent in accordance with your wishes and to deliver it to the people or places in College that mean the most to you. This annual Development Report is one way in which we will continue to be as transparent as possible about the incredibly important role, and impact, your philanthropy continues to play in the daily life and long-term future of our College.

The top-level new funds raised figure of £4.3 million demonstrates clearly that the Queen’s community of Old Members and friends is both committed and willing to support the College’s current members. We are immensely grateful for the financial support we receive.

I joined Queen’s in early February 2019 as the Director of Development and look forward to working closely with my colleagues – Jen and Mirijam – in the Old Members’ Office. I will, of course, also be working hard to get outside of the College on a regular basis: to get to know Queen’s and its Old Members and friends better, to understand your reasons for wanting to get involved, and to work with you to find ways in which we can all be driving this wonderful College forward.

FROM THE PROVOST,

PROFESSOR PAUL MADDEN, FRS FRSE

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT,

DR JUSTIN JACOBS

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This year we received an exceptionally generous donation of £3.6 million to endow The Waverley Fund, the single largest lifetime gift made to Queen’s in modern times.

The size of this gift has enabled us to immediately leverage some matched funding opportunities around the University and elsewhere, with the result that Queen’s has been able to permanently endow five graduate studentships. This not only ensures that we will always be in a strong position to attract and fully support the absolute best and brightest to come to Queen’s and Oxford, but that these students can study here and focus on their research - not on the cost of their education.

This is a truly transformational gift and one which will have an everlasting impact on our mission to provide a world-class education to our students. We are immensely grateful to our anonymous donors for sharing their vision and placing their trust in Queen’s and its students.

THE WAVERLEY FUND

EGLESFIELD AND PHILIPPA BENEFACTORS

We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of the College’s major benefactors, both those listed here and those who have chosen to remain anonymous.

All care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this list. However, if any error has occurred, please accept our apologies and notify the Old Members’ Office so that we can amend our records for future publications.

Eglesfield Benefactors (Lifetime giving of £100,000 or more)

Mr David Allanson (1974)Mr Rowan Atkinson CBE (1975)Mr Adrian Beecroft (1965)Mr Rodger Booth (1962)Mr Michael Boyd (1958)Mr Ernest Chapman (1956)Mr Chris Eskdale (1987)

Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987)Dr Bob Feinberg (1961)Dr Bill Frankland MBE DM FRCP (1930)Mr Peter Harding (1958)Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975)Prof Ioan James (1946)Mr Torquil McAlpine (1973)

Philippa Benefactors (Lifetime giving of £10,000 or more) *From August 2018

Mr Joseph Archie (1982)Mr Fred Arnold (1976)Chief Philip Asiodu (1953)District Judge Chris Beale (1964)Prof Peter Bell (1963)Mr John Betteridge (1977)Mr Alan Bishop (1971)Dr Ray Bowden (1960)Mr Martin Bowley QC (1957)Dr Douglas Bridgewater (1955)*Dr Janaki Brolin (2000)Mr Dave Brownlee (1962)Prof Chandra Chandrasekhar (1949)*Mr Paul Clark (1968)*Mr Steve Crown (1980)Mr Martin Dillon (1961)Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960)Mr Derek Dodds (1949)Mr Nicholas Donald (1972)Mr Tim Evans CBE (1956)Mr John Ford (1980)Mr Richard Geldard (1972)Prof Yash Ghai (1958)Mr Walter Gilges (1956)Mr Jack Giraudo (1975)Mr Ron Glaister (1961)Mr Marcus Grubb (1980)Mr Gerry Hackett (1977)Mr Mike Hawley (1959)

Mr Philip Hetherington (1962)Mr Reg Higginson (1949)Lord Lennie Hoffmann (1954)Mrs Anna Hull (1995)Mr John Hull (1994)Mr Tareq Islam (1991)Mr Andrew Joanes (1952)Mr Raymond Kelly III (1963)Mr Adam Koller* (in memory of Mrs Pippa Koller (1992))Mr Clive Landa (1963)Mr Alan Leigh (1982)Mr Timothy Ling (1967)Mr Frank Logan (1952)Dr John Long CVO (1942)Mr Cameron Marshall (1991)Mrs Sia Marshall (1990)Mr William Marsterson (1963)Dr Juan Mason (1967)Dr Bruce McLucas (1967)Mr Philip Middleton (1974)Mr Alan Mitchell (1968)Dr Ken Morallee (1963)Prof Roger Pain (1949)Mr John Palmer CB (1949)Mr John Parsloe (1959)Mr Andrew Parsons (1962)Dr Maurice Pearton (1947)Lady Sally Peel

Mr Paul Newton (1975)Mr Vadim ShulmanMr Anthony Simon (1963)Dr Mel Stephens (1976)Mr Dick Stewart (1955)Dr Carl StormThe Waverley Fund

Mr David Pitt-Watson (1974)Mr John Poulter (1961)Mr Bob Prentice (1949)Mr Tom Pütter (1977)Mr John Raisman CBE (1947)Mr Geoff Riddell (1974)Mr Michael Roberts (1962)Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968)Mr Barry Saunders (1956)Dr Brian Savory (1951)Prof Stephen Scott (1961)Mr David Seymour CB (1969)Mr John Smith (1980)Mr John Startin (1997)Mr Glenn Stewart (1975)Mr Alan Taylor (1971)Mr Christopher Tootal (1954)Mr Tom Ward (1973)Mr James Watt (1956)Mrs Diana Webster (1980)Mr Jonathan Webster (1981)Mr Stuart White (1975)Mr David Wilkinson (1957)Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973)Mr Jacky Wong (1986)Mr Tim Wong (1987)Mr Mike Woodhouse CVO (1948)Canon Hugh Wybrew (1955)

A full list of named donors can be found in the College Record 2018. Please get in touch with the Old Members’ Office if you have not received a copy.

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962 donors

47 new Queen’s Society members (regular givers)

£51,600 claimed in Gift Aid

£4,312,000 new funds raised

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Stage 2: Student Support

Raised: £108,605, Number of donors: 125 Total spent on bursaries, scholarships, and grants: £354,572

This fund not only provides support for students in financial need, but also supports the wider student body in their extracurricular activities.

We are grateful to Mike Hawley (1959) for his wonderful donation to ease costs for students undertaking internships in the vacations, giving our students greater confidence in the working world for when they leave. Meanwhile, Adam Koller has kindly set up a prize in memory of his late partner Pippa Koller (1992) to support Queen’s sportswomen.

Liz Kent, current student of History and Politics, tells us how academic support and book grants have expanded her studies beyond Oxford:

“The timeless axiom that university broadens your horizons could not be truer for my experience at Queen’s, but little did I know that my horizons would be broadened as far as Central America. Thanks to an Academic Support Grant, I was able to spend a semester studying at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City – learning Spanish and undertaking invaluable research for the completion of my thesis. Many of the archival resources I needed were simply not available from the confines of Oxford, but I had the opportunity to go and visit the archives in Mexico and widen my field of study. Similarly, I have benefitted from the Book Grant Scheme which has allowed me to purchase a number of books, otherwise absent from the libraries of Oxford. As I reach the end of my studies and I reflect upon the last three years of my life, I am grateful to Queen’s for the wonderful memories it has given me both within the beautiful walls in which I sit and write, and the world beyond that its help and support has unlocked.”

Stage 3: Graduate Funding

Raised: £3,792,353

In an ever-growing international world, attracting the best research has become an increasing priority for all Oxford colleges. However, providing the resources needed for graduates is especially expensive.

It has been a phenomenal year for graduate funding at Queen’s, with over £3 million raised for this important area of College life.

This year the College received its largest ever lifetime gift to endow The Waverley Fund, more information on which can be found elsewhere in this report. Significant donations have also allowed us to fund the Ewald Scholarship in Law and the John P. Clay Scholarship in Sanskrit studies – the latter generously funded by the JJC Foundation (founded by the late John P Clay (1954) and his wife Jennifer Coutts Clay).

Adam Waring, our current Ewald Scholar, says “As well as being extremely helpful financially, being awarded the Ewald Scholarship really helped me to settle in and feel like I belonged at the University. Although starting a Master’s at Oxford is exciting, it is also slightly daunting at first. The support that the College provided through the scholarship assuaged some of my anxieties and helped me to feel confident that I am capable of succeeding in my studies here. After the BCL I will start a training contract at Slaughter and May.”

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Stage 4: The Tutorial System and Academic Excellence

Raised: £41,910, Number of donors: 80

We are delighted to offer three new subject prizes this year: the Mander Prize in Law, thanks to the late His Hon Michael Mander (1957); the Chandrasekhar Prize in Physics, thanks to Professor Chandra Chandrasekhar (1949); and the Palmer Prize in French, thanks to John and Catherine Palmer (1949 & 1981, respectively). Subject prizes are instrumental in encouraging our students to push themselves academically and excel beyond the curriculum.

The principal focus for this fund, however, is the funding of Fellowships. While we continue to raise funds for Fellowships in French, History, and Classics, the College also seeks to grow its number of Junior Research Fellowships (JRFs). JRFs do not teach students in College, instead focussing their efforts on research in their field.

Dr Dianne Mitchell, who joined Queen’s as a Junior Research Fellow in English this year, tells us about her experience at the College:

“In the midst of a spirited Anglo-Saxon rendition of ‘Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer’ at our annual English subject dinner, it occurred to me that Queen’s makes some extraordinary things possible. During my five terms at the College as a JRF, I’ve been able to completely reconceive my PhD dissertation into an exciting book project. But a big part of my intellectual growth has come from the interactions with colleagues afforded by college life. I’ve made close friends who study Philosophy and French, learned from senior colleagues how to conduct fair admissions interviews, and, by serving on the Library Committee, gained insight into the ways that the College supports student research. In collaboration with my colleague Dr Katherine Hunt, also at Queen’s, I organized a hugely successful conference in the Shulman Auditorium. Participants ‘networked’ in the Fellows’ Garden on a glorious summer’s day and were thrilled by a pop-up exhibition featuring the College’s copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio. This summer, Katherine and I will collaborate again to curate a Renaissance-themed exhibition in the Upper Library.

Being a JRF at Queen’s has meant that I have begun to carve out a place for myself in my field. I’ve had the opportunity to give invited lectures at nearby universities – talks composed, with lots of College coffee in hand, in a new Wednesday morning writing group organized by one of our Egyptologists. I’ve used my College allowance to travel to archives, leading to some exciting literary discoveries. This time to think, write, and meet fellow scholars has made me competitive in the academic job market. Next year I’ll be taking up a tenure-track position at The University of Colorado. Trading my view of Front Quad for a view of the Rocky Mountains will be exciting, but a little sad: I’m not quite ready to say goodbye to the community that I’ve found here.”

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“On behalf of the JCR, I’d like to extend my warmest thanks to the donors of the College, without whom our activities would not be possible. We are aware of how your generous donations support the extracurricular pursuits of current Queen’s students, as well as College’s highly

successful outreach activity. We remain deeply grateful for your support.”

Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan, JCR President

FROM THE JCR & MCR

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“On behalf of the MCR, I’d like to express the tremendous gratitude of the postgraduate members of the College to our Old Members and friends for your continued financial support. Your generosity is critical in allowing us to maintain our academic excellence in both research and taught programmes by funding books, travel, and more. Thank you for making all of this possible.”

Hamza Alawiye, MCR Vice-President

Stage 1: Access & Outreach

Raised: £8,100, Number of donors: 35, Total spent on Outreach activity: £99,240

Our Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer Orock Nsoatabe works with schools in our link areas (Cumbria, Lancashire, Blackpool, Blackburn, Lewisham, and Sutton) and beyond to raise pupils’ aspirations and bust myths about studying at Oxford. She says:

“This year, Queen’s continued to expand its outreach activity, delivering 56 events and interacting with some 5,200 students. These events include day visits to the College, residential events, UCAS and Higher Education fairs, as well as visits to individual schools to deliver talks and workshops. Aside from this, we also hosted three open days, and had more visitors to these than ever before – 3,500 students in total. Meanwhile, we saw an increase in the number of applications for our Science Residential trip for students from the North West of England. These could be significant factors to the increase in applications received to Queen’s in 2018.

In addition to our usual undertakings, we introduced new initiatives to engage with students like never before. Queen’s was the first Oxford college to use the Access Platform, an online platform which allows prospective applicants to interact with students directly, safely, and remotely online through asking questions, direct messaging, and booking calls. Initial responses from student ambassadors, teachers, and prospective applicants have been very positive, and numbers visiting the platform continues to grow. As well as this, four undergraduates undertook an Access Roadshow in the summer, visiting schools in Cumbria and speaking to pupils about the Oxford application process.

But, of course, there is always more to be done. Thank you to everyone who continues to support Access and Outreach at Queen’s - it is so important to ensure that the brightest and best apply to Oxford, regardless of their background.”

ACCESS ALL AREAS

We welcomed six new Taberdars’ Society members this year and were delighted to receive £1,539,600 from bequests to the College. The Taberdars’ Society recognises and thanks all who have made a gift to Queen’s in their will. It is a personal gift which represents a close affinity with the College. We were particularly grateful to the late Dr Sydney Smith (1947) whose legacy of £975,000 received this year has ensured a Fellowship in Chemistry can be funded in perpetuity.

This year the Society celebrated its 10th anniversary. We were pleased to welcome back 41 legators and their guests who toured the New Library and heard from Librarian Amanda Saville about the Library treasures, before enjoying the annual Society lunch.

THE TABERDARS’ SOCIETY

Five graduate students from across Oxford, led by Queen’s Fellow in Plant Sciences Dr Lindsay Turnbull and DPhil student April Burt, are travelling to the remote Aldabra atoll in the Indian Ocean. They will spend six weeks clearing plastic waste that has washed up on Aldabra’s shores to preserve its precious ecosystem. In May 2018 the team launched the project at the Royal Society, with a funding target of £150,000. Since the end of 2018, they have successfully surpassed this goal, raising some £168,000.

Thank you to all who have supported the project, especially to Gerry Hackett, Chris Stephens, Ivor Timmis (all 1977), and William Audland QC (1985). There will be more news on the expedition in due course – until then, you can keep up with all things Aldabra via the College website.

ALDABR A CLEAN-UP PROJECT

We are grateful to Rowan Atkinson CBE (1975, Honorary Fellow) who officially opened the New Library in November 2017 and described it as ‘the right thing at the right time’ to an audience of students, staff, and Fellows.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti (1993, Honorary Fellow) and First Lady Amy Wakeland (Wadham, 1993) kindly hosted Old Members and the College Choir at Getty House in April. Thank you also to Colin Keith (1962) and Dr Bruce McLucas (1967) for their generous support of US events in 2018, and to Tim Connell (1969) for his support of the City of London Reception at Stationers’ Hall.

The Queenswomen’s committee of Old Members has devoted much time and effort to commemorate the 40th anniversary of co-education at Queen’s. During 2019 and onwards there will be a wealth of events, networking opportunities, and online exhibitions – more information is available on the College website.

Thank you to all others who have dedicated their time and efforts over the year.

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