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THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE<br />
DONOR IMPACT<br />
REPORT<br />
1 August 2021 – 31 July 2022<br />
Access All Areas: Phase Two
Thank you for<br />
supporting Queen’s
CONTENTS<br />
From the Provost 2<br />
From the Director of Development 3<br />
Development Committee 3<br />
Access All Areas: Phase Two – 2021 – Ongoing 4<br />
Endowment Overview 6<br />
Income vs. Expenditure: Financial Year, 2021 – 2022 6<br />
Academic Excellence: <strong>The</strong> Tutorial System 7<br />
Endowed Tutorial Fellowships at Queen’s 7<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> in Numbers 8<br />
Giving in Numbers 8<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s Society 9<br />
Student Support 10<br />
Access and Outreach 12<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Translation Exchange 13<br />
Legacy Giving 14<br />
Meet the Team 16<br />
Giving Circles 16<br />
Benefactors 17<br />
Photo: Magda Adamska<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
At Queen’s, students are pushed to<br />
reach our full academic potential,<br />
but we’re also encouraged to enjoy our work and<br />
to appreciate the pleasure of being able to study<br />
in this unique environment surrounded by such<br />
amazing minds.<br />
JCR President Róisín Quinn<br />
(Literae Humaniores, 2020)<br />
Photo: Amanda Sharp<br />
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Photo: David Fisher<br />
FROM THE PROVOST<br />
Dr Claire Craig<br />
It is a pleasure to share our 2021-22 <strong>Donor</strong> <strong>Impact</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong> with you.<br />
As we start communicating with Old Members<br />
and Friends about the second phase of Access All<br />
Areas, we have renamed the annual Development<br />
<strong>Report</strong>. We did this to reflect and highlight more<br />
clearly what each of our donors’ gifts to Queen’s do:<br />
they make a visible and positive impact on the entire<br />
<strong>College</strong> community.<br />
Last academic year was an interesting time in the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s long history but also a time in which<br />
Queen’s was at its best. <strong>The</strong> values and culture<br />
shaped by previous generations were there to draw<br />
on when things were at their most challenging.<br />
Determination, resilience, and kindness – all<br />
recognisable hallmarks of our historic northern roots –<br />
were on full display. As was tenacity: the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
Governing Body decided early on to keep education<br />
front and centre, even if it meant straining every sinew<br />
to keep the magic of the in-person tutorial alive.<br />
It was also a year in which generosity was front and<br />
centre. Queen’s relied on the financial support of<br />
its Old Members and Friends perhaps more than<br />
ever and in this year’s <strong>Impact</strong> <strong>Report</strong> you will see<br />
just that. Because of our values, culture, and our<br />
donors’ willingness to help, the <strong>College</strong> did not just<br />
survive but thrived during this challenging period.<br />
Because of our values,<br />
culture, and our donors’<br />
willingness to help, the<br />
<strong>College</strong> did not just survive<br />
but thrived during this<br />
challenging period.<br />
You will see clear evidence of our donors’ impact<br />
in the Bursar’s report (page 6). Last year the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s combined income from student tuition and<br />
accommodation, research, and conferencing totalled<br />
around £6M. Over that same period, our donors<br />
contributed an additional £2.3M in philanthropic<br />
income through their support of Access All Areas.<br />
This represents 27% of the <strong>College</strong>’s total income;<br />
a significant sum directed towards supporting our<br />
students, tutorial Fellowships, the Chapel and Choir,<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s beautiful buildings and our growing<br />
access and outreach programme in the northwest.<br />
Each year the gifts we receive are placed in the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s endowment and carefully stewarded so<br />
that they will always support Queen’s. <strong>The</strong> gifts<br />
received in 2021-22 have thus joined the original gifts<br />
made to the <strong>College</strong> by Queen Philippa and Robert<br />
Eglesfield and countless others. <strong>The</strong>y will grow<br />
collectively and each one will play a part in securing<br />
the <strong>College</strong> community both now and in the future.<br />
All of us recognise what a privilege it is to be at<br />
Queen’s: we remain a dynamic and enriching<br />
community for our students and researchers. We are<br />
one of the top colleges in the world’s top-ranked<br />
university, and the Queen’s experience is what gives<br />
our students the confidence and ability to go and<br />
make a positive impact on the world after graduation.<br />
Our community is committed and curious<br />
and continues to shine the light of inquiry across<br />
the academic spectrum – from the ancient to the<br />
futuristic, and the sub-atomic to the universal.<br />
Thanks to our donors, the impact of your gifts on the<br />
Queen’s community will continue to be felt for many<br />
years to come.<br />
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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT<br />
Dr Justin B. Jacobs<br />
In 2021-22 Queen’s launched the second phase<br />
of Access All Areas. <strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s Old Members<br />
and Friends continued to build upon the strong<br />
foundations laid during the first phase, contributing<br />
£2.3M to Academic Excellence, Student Support,<br />
and Access and Outreach.<br />
In this second phase, Access All Areas continues to<br />
remain focused on the people who make Queen’s<br />
the inspiring place that it is, and our first set of<br />
fundraising priorities reflects this.<br />
with our PPE students.<br />
<strong>The</strong> academic focus of the<br />
Centenary Visiting Professor<br />
will rotate each year between the<br />
three subjects and between Queen’s and University<br />
<strong>College</strong>, with whom we are partnering.<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
<strong>The</strong> source of our academic excellence has always<br />
been the Tutorial System and this year’s <strong>Impact</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong> details our continued efforts to endow and<br />
secure tutorial Fellowships across some of the key<br />
subject areas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Provost and Andy Connell (Modern History, 1965) at<br />
the TAP launch in October 2022.<br />
In 2021-22, donors supported the public<br />
launch of the Peter Neumann Fellowship<br />
in Mathematics – our first-ever Mathsfocused<br />
fundraising initiative – and they<br />
continue to help us complete the John<br />
Prestwich Fellowship in History, the second<br />
of our two Fellowships in Modern History.<br />
On page eight you can see how these<br />
efforts, when complete, will combine with<br />
earlier fundraising successes to strengthen<br />
our academic excellence.<br />
Our donors also continued to help us<br />
build upon the initial endowment for the<br />
unique Centenary Visiting Professorship<br />
in PPE. This post was publicly unveiled<br />
last November to celebrate the storied<br />
degree’s 100th anniversary. We look<br />
forward to seeing world-class academic<br />
talent coming to Oxford annually to work<br />
Dr Peter Neumann<br />
(Maths, 1959)<br />
Prof. Christina Davis<br />
(incoming<br />
Centenary Visiting<br />
Professor, Politics)<br />
Finally, our donors continued to cultivate<br />
the seeds sown in phase one of Access All<br />
Areas by enhancing the <strong>College</strong>’s access<br />
and outreach work in the northwest. Our<br />
partnership with <strong>The</strong> Access Project (TAP)<br />
launched in October 2022, with over<br />
£500,000 raised to support the initial three<br />
years of the programme in 2021-22. This<br />
partnership embeds Queen’s and Oxford<br />
directly into four secondary schools: two<br />
in Cumbria and two in Blackburn with<br />
Darwen. This is part of the Governing<br />
Body’s commitment to reinvigorate and<br />
enhance the <strong>College</strong>’s historical links to<br />
the north.<br />
None of these exciting steps forward would<br />
be possible without the financial support of<br />
our Old Members and Friends. Thank you<br />
for helping Queen’s take them.<br />
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE<br />
We would like to thank those Old Members who served on the Development Committee in 2021–2022:<br />
Mr Desmond Cecil (PPE, 1961)<br />
Mr Paul Newton (Chemistry, 1975)<br />
Mrs Rachel Lawson (Modern Languages, 1984)<br />
Mr John Turner (PPE, 1984)<br />
Mr John Hull (Chemistry, 1994)<br />
Mrs Anna Hull (Mathematics, 1995)<br />
Ms Maude Tham (Modern Languages, 2009)<br />
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access all areas<br />
Phase Two: 2021 – Ongoing<br />
<strong>Impact</strong> in the financial year 1 August 2021 – 31 July 2022<br />
Academic Excellence<br />
Student Support<br />
In the summer of 2022, the <strong>College</strong> publicly<br />
launched the Peter Neumann Fellowship<br />
in Mathematics, raising, to date, just over<br />
£500,000 in cash and pledges.<br />
We continued to raise support for the Prestwich<br />
Fellowship in History, last year raising an additional<br />
£37,241. <strong>The</strong> value of the endowment at the end<br />
of July 2022 was £2,023,782 of the £3 million<br />
needed for full endowment.<br />
We had the public launch for the endowment of<br />
the Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE, to<br />
date and raised an additional £200,000 towards<br />
this new post (p. 7).<br />
Oxford Acheson-Hill Graduate Scholarship in<br />
Chemistry established – raising £429,714<br />
from 3 Old Members, along with a match from<br />
the University.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tony Honoré Scholarship and the Ewald<br />
Scholarship, both to support graduate students<br />
reading for the BCL or MJur in Law continued to<br />
receive funds. Last year an additional £10,000<br />
was secured for these Scholarships.<br />
Thanks to the legacy gift of Celia Gould, the<br />
Cyril Vysove Scholarship was established to<br />
support graduate students reading for a degree<br />
in modern languages (p. 14).
Access and Outreach<br />
Library<br />
<strong>The</strong> new partnership between Queen’s and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Access Project (p. 12) launched in the<br />
autumn of 2022. To date, just over £508,000,<br />
has been raised from Old Members<br />
towards this programme.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Translation Exchange received £18,588<br />
from a number of Trusts, Foundations, and other<br />
institutions to further the Exchange’s mission and<br />
work with schools (p. 13).<br />
In 2021-22, Queen’s received £78,203 from<br />
a legacy gift to support the Library Special<br />
Collections (p. 15).<br />
<strong>College</strong> also received one legacy gift and one<br />
donation totaling £4,125 to support the Library’s<br />
Digitisation Project (p. 14).
Photo: John Cairns<br />
ENDOWMENT<br />
OVERVIEW<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bursar<br />
Dr Andrew Timms<br />
<strong>The</strong> most recent financial year was notably more<br />
difficult than the previous one: our budgeting<br />
process had to be interrupted twice to take account<br />
of changing inflation expectations, and the general<br />
level of pressure on financial decisions has increased<br />
markedly. Energy costs are a particular concern: they<br />
are expected to more than double if we compare this<br />
year (2022–23) with last year (2021–22), and forecasts<br />
for next year suggest further significant increases.<br />
To put this into context, in more normal times the<br />
<strong>College</strong> would have expected to be spending a<br />
little under £500k on energy in a year; the budget<br />
this year is over £900k and forecasts for next year<br />
have varied wildly, at times reaching numbers well<br />
in excess of £1.5 million. This is a significant fraction<br />
of our core unrestricted educational and operational<br />
expenditure (which is around £10 million per annum).<br />
A notable constraint is that, realistically, we cannot<br />
expect simply to pass these costs on to students,<br />
so the <strong>College</strong> ends up increasing its subsidisation<br />
of accommodation. We can absorb this for a year or<br />
two, but if higher energy costs persist then we will<br />
have to reconsider our charges more fundamentally.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s endowment has also endured some<br />
quite challenging years. As I have outlined previously,<br />
the impact of the pandemic on rent collection from<br />
commercial properties has been considerable, and<br />
in 2022 the difficulties experienced by most stock<br />
markets also took a small toll on the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
wealth. However, the <strong>College</strong> is very underweight<br />
in the US market so we were shielded to a certain<br />
extent from the correction in the technology market,<br />
but most other markets have also seen losses<br />
in light of the more febrile financial climate (and of<br />
course geopolitical events). A bright spot on an<br />
otherwise bleak horizon has been the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
agricultural land, where the painstakingly slow<br />
process of bringing forward farmland for residential<br />
development has moved us much closer to the point<br />
at which we will receive some substantial and longawaited<br />
receipts. <strong>The</strong> overall total investment return<br />
in 2021–22 was around 3.4%, which comprises small<br />
losses on commercial properties and equities, offset<br />
by a significant revaluation of land outside Coventry<br />
which we plan to sell for residential development in<br />
the near future. In more normal times this would be<br />
only a modest return, but given the wider challenges<br />
INCOME VS EXPENDITURE<br />
Financial Year, 2021 – 2022<br />
Total: £8,495 (000s)<br />
£2,319<br />
£451<br />
Teaching and research<br />
£2,690<br />
Residential and catering<br />
£3,014<br />
Excludes investment income<br />
and investment management costs.<br />
£394<br />
£179<br />
INCOME<br />
Philanthropic income<br />
Trading<br />
EXPENDITURE<br />
£667<br />
£1,294<br />
Total: £14,715 (000s)<br />
£1,752<br />
£4,104<br />
Teaching and research<br />
Residential and catering<br />
Maintenance<br />
Fundraising and<br />
Old Member Relations<br />
£6,325<br />
Trading<br />
Other<br />
Student support<br />
Other<br />
(pension deficit<br />
movement)<br />
(and the performance of many benchmarks) we feel<br />
it was a pretty successful year: our performance<br />
was better (indeed much better in some cases) than<br />
that of the US university endowments that many<br />
people admire. <strong>The</strong> challenge is to maintain this<br />
performance in good years as well as bad.<br />
Amidst all of this uncertainty and challenge, the<br />
unstinting level of financial support of Old Members<br />
has been of particular value to the <strong>College</strong>. We are<br />
very grateful to you.<br />
Other<br />
Trading<br />
Philanthropic inc<br />
Residential and c<br />
Teaching and Re<br />
Other<br />
Student support<br />
Trading<br />
Fundraising<br />
Maintenance<br />
Residential and<br />
Teaching and Re<br />
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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tutorial System<br />
<strong>The</strong> tutorial system is the hallmark of an Oxford<br />
education. It’s what famously makes Oxford ‘Oxford’;<br />
it’s the gold standard of teaching that is envied, and<br />
copied, all over the world. While our commitment to<br />
its preservation is steadfast, our ability to protect this<br />
form of learning is constantly under threat. This is why<br />
we ask our Old Members – who know better than<br />
anyone the value of what we are trying to preserve –<br />
for their help to ensure that the tutorial system’s<br />
unique ability to foster the greatest opportunities for<br />
learning remains available to future generations of<br />
Queen’s students.<br />
On behalf of the Governing Body, I would like to thank<br />
those of you who supported Academic Excellence<br />
last year as well as our specific Fellowship appeals.<br />
Your support makes a direct and tangible difference<br />
to the <strong>College</strong>’s ability to plan for the future and<br />
to safeguard the highest standard of teaching<br />
and learning.<br />
Queen’s is committed to endowing all of its tutorial<br />
fellowships, to protect the teaching of those subjects<br />
in perpetuity.<br />
Mathematics<br />
Last summer, we announced the creation of the<br />
Peter Neumann Fellowship in Mathematics, named<br />
to commemorate Dr Neumann’s longstanding<br />
relationship with Queen’s, first as a student, then<br />
tutor, and then Emeritus Fellow. Of the £2 million<br />
needed to permanently endow this Fellowship, we<br />
have now raised over £500,000 in cash and pledges,<br />
for which we are enormously grateful to these early<br />
Old Member supporters.<br />
History<br />
We continue to fundraise for the<br />
Prestwich Fellowship in History and last year received<br />
additional donations towards this endowment. Named<br />
after former History professor and eminent historian,<br />
John Prestwich, the current funding position for the<br />
Fellowship in cash, pledges, and investment income<br />
(as of 31 July 2022) was £2,023,782 of the £3 million<br />
needed for full endowment. Once the Prestwich<br />
Fellowship has been fully endowed, both History<br />
Fellowships at Queen’s will be permanently endowed,<br />
following the creation of the Brittenden Fellowship in<br />
History in 2020, thanks to the Legacy gift of Frederick<br />
(Fred) H. Brittenden (Modern History, 1946).<br />
Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE<br />
Last year the creation of a Centenary Visiting<br />
Professorship in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics<br />
(PPE) was announced, thanks to the generous seed<br />
endowment of £1.5million by an anonymous Old<br />
Member. This new Visiting Professor is shared with<br />
University <strong>College</strong> to celebrate the 100th anniversary<br />
of the establishment of PPE at Oxford. Queen’s<br />
was tasked with raising an additional £500,000 to<br />
enhance the Visiting Fellowship and as of the end<br />
2021–22 we have raised over £200,000 of this total.<br />
We look forward to welcoming the second Centenary<br />
Visiting Professor in PPE, Professor Christina L.<br />
Davis (who will be a Supernumerary Fellow in the<br />
<strong>College</strong>) in 2024‐25. Professor Davis is the Edwin<br />
O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the<br />
Department of Government at Harvard University.<br />
Prof Seth Whidden<br />
Senior Tutor and Roger Pearson Fellow in French<br />
Photo: David Olds<br />
ENDOWED TUTORIAL FELLOWSHIPS AT QUEEN’S<br />
Tutorial Fellowship (current number of Tutorial Fellows)<br />
Key<br />
Fully endowed<br />
Partially endowed<br />
Classics (1) 1<br />
History (2)<br />
1 (Brittenden Fellowship in History)<br />
1 (Prestwich Fellowship in History)<br />
Modern Languages (3)* 1 (Pearson Fellowship in French) 2<br />
Medical Sciences (2)<br />
2 (Kingsland Fellowships)<br />
Chemistry (2)<br />
2 (Linnett Fellowships in Chemistry)<br />
Physics (2) 1 (Moffatt Fellowship) 1<br />
Mathematics Fellowship (2) 1 (Neumann Fellowship in Mathematics)<br />
*<strong>The</strong> Laming Fellowship Trust makes a<br />
significant contribution to the salaries of the<br />
Modern Language Tutorial Fellows<br />
To find out more about the Fellowships,<br />
or if you would like to support one of these<br />
Fellowships or other projects, please<br />
contact development@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
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THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
6,891 Old Members<br />
In the academic year 2021–22 the <strong>College</strong><br />
admitted 106 new undergraduate<br />
students and 75 postgraduate students<br />
(including 5 PGCE students)<br />
Approximately 3,000 people (prospective<br />
students and their families) visited Queen’s<br />
during the two summer 2022 Open Days<br />
In the academic year 2021–22:<br />
39 undergraduates passed final<br />
examinations with first class honours<br />
40 graduates completed doctoral<br />
research degrees<br />
73 choral services were held in Chapel<br />
<strong>The</strong> number of bursaries made to<br />
Queen’s students was 68, the total value<br />
of which was £194,204<br />
85 students were awarded book grants<br />
98 external readers consulted 194<br />
items from the Queen’s Library Special<br />
Collections<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> awarded:<br />
23 Scholarships, each with a value of £450<br />
35 Junior Scholarships, each with a<br />
value of £300,<br />
and<br />
34 Exhibitions, each with a value of £150,<br />
to undergraduates on academic merit<br />
GIVING IN NUMBERS<br />
ACCESS ALL AREAS,<br />
NEW FUNDS RAISED<br />
Phase Two (year one)<br />
(01/08/2021–31/07/2022)<br />
£2,338,400<br />
Phase One (01/08/16–31/07/21)<br />
£23,032,135<br />
ANNUAL GIVING<br />
(01/08/21–31/07/22)<br />
43 donors gave for the first time this year<br />
626 donors supported Queen’s last year<br />
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THE QUEEN’S SOCIETY<br />
How Regular Gifts Make an <strong>Impact</strong><br />
Since its foundation, there has been a culture of<br />
philanthropy and giving back at Queen’s for which<br />
the <strong>College</strong> is very grateful — and very proud! Giving<br />
at all levels makes a tangible difference in the lives of<br />
our students and academics now and in the future.<br />
We are especially grateful to those Old Members<br />
and Friends who give regularly to Queen’s. Regular<br />
gifts via annual, quarterly, or monthly direct debit or<br />
standing order allows the <strong>College</strong> to plan ahead with<br />
confidence. <strong>Donor</strong>s who give in this way become<br />
members of <strong>The</strong> Queen’s Society, and each year<br />
their gifts join together to enhance the Queen’s Fund<br />
in support of <strong>College</strong> priorities.<br />
Last year, the Queen’s Fund (which excludes<br />
legacies and gifts over £25,000) received gifts to a<br />
value of over £194,000 from 521 Queen’s Society<br />
members. <strong>The</strong> impact of the Queen’s Fund is felt<br />
across all aspects of the student experience, from<br />
providing student bursaries and book grants, to<br />
safeguarding the tutorial system, to encouraging<br />
the best and brightest students, regardless of<br />
background or means, to come to Queen’s.<br />
We would be delighted to see more Old Members<br />
join in this collective effort to help fulfil the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
ambitious goals in the second phase of Access<br />
Unendowed<br />
Fellowships<br />
Junior<br />
Research<br />
Fellowships<br />
(JRFs)<br />
Endowed<br />
Fellowships<br />
Queen’s visits<br />
to schools<br />
Teaching<br />
resources<br />
Academic<br />
Excellence<br />
School visits<br />
to Queen’s<br />
Access and<br />
Outreach<br />
Scholarships<br />
Student<br />
Support<br />
<strong>College</strong> Open<br />
Days<br />
Student<br />
Hardship<br />
Bursaries<br />
Residential visits<br />
to Queen’s<br />
Book<br />
Grant<br />
Programme<br />
Long<br />
Distance<br />
Travel<br />
Grants<br />
All Areas. Around 8.5% of Old Members made a<br />
gift last year (and of those Old Members in the US<br />
around 5% made a donation).<br />
As part of this very special giving community,<br />
Queen’s Society members are recognised in the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Record and invited to special <strong>College</strong><br />
events, including the annual drinks reception held<br />
prior to the Old Members’ Garden Party, next on<br />
1 July 2023. We can’t wait to see you there!<br />
Amanda Sharp, Regular Giving Officer<br />
Why I joined the Queen’s Society<br />
“Having my own children, seeing them grow and<br />
imagining them going to university one day, made<br />
me reflect on how lucky I was to attend Queen’s and<br />
my gratitude for all the opportunities and the lifelong<br />
friends that it gave me. It’s a small way of saying<br />
thank you, and also helping others along their way.”<br />
Queen’s Society Member<br />
To join the Queen’s Society by making a regular<br />
gift to Queen’s, please complete the accompanying<br />
donation form, or visit<br />
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/give-online<br />
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STUDENT SUPPORT<br />
Graduate<br />
Scholarship Scheme<br />
for Ukrainian refugees<br />
Ewald Scholarship<br />
in Law<br />
Since 2017-18, an Old<br />
Member has funded a Graduate<br />
Scholarship in conjunction with the Law<br />
Faculty for a Queen’s Law student reading<br />
for a BCL or MJur degree. <strong>The</strong> annual<br />
award for 2021-2022 has been taken up by<br />
Samuel Grimley (2021).<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Ewald Scholarship has<br />
made it possible for me to take<br />
up my place at Oxford, and<br />
Queen’s has provided such<br />
a warm welcome. I cannot<br />
imagine a better environment in<br />
which to pursue my intellectual<br />
growth. Already I have had<br />
the opportunity to study<br />
with the world’s foremost<br />
legal academics, and been<br />
inspired and challenged by my<br />
fellow students.”<br />
A gift from the Waverley Fund has<br />
allowed the <strong>College</strong> to participate in the new<br />
Oxford University Graduate Scholarships for<br />
Ukraine scheme, offering financial support<br />
to graduate applicants displaced by the<br />
war in Ukraine. Thanks to the generosity of<br />
Old Members, we are pleased to welcome<br />
Olena Didenko, who is studying for the MSc<br />
in Neuroscience in 2022-2023.<br />
“I am very thankful to Queen’s<br />
and <strong>The</strong> University of Oxford for<br />
sponsoring my scholarship. This<br />
financial support has allowed<br />
me to continue my education,<br />
and covered all my needs so<br />
I can focus on research. I am<br />
using this opportunity to develop<br />
myself not only professionally,<br />
but personally, and thanks to<br />
Queen’s I have expanded my<br />
network with interesting people of<br />
different backgrounds.”<br />
Olena Didenko (MSc Neuroscience, 2022)<br />
Samuel Grimley (BCL, 2021)<br />
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Student Support,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s Fund<br />
Alongside named<br />
scholarships and bursaries, gifts<br />
to the Student Support area of the Queen’s<br />
Fund enhance the student at experience<br />
Queen’s in numerous ways. Thanks to a<br />
research travel grant, student Charlotte<br />
Forrest (History, 2019) undertook an<br />
archive project in Dublin that proved<br />
invaluable for her undergraduate thesis,<br />
which earned first class marks.<br />
Cyril Vysove<br />
Scholarship in<br />
Modern Languages<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cyril Vysove Scholarship in<br />
Modern Languages was endowed in 2021,<br />
thanks to a legacy gift in memory of Cyril<br />
Vysove (Modern Languages, 1941) whose<br />
life – and study at Queen’s – was cut short<br />
by WWII (see p. 14).<br />
“This generous scholarship has<br />
enabled me to pursue my interest<br />
in medieval French literature and<br />
enriched my studies through the<br />
countless opportunities on offer<br />
at Oxford. Already during my first<br />
year, I have enjoyed exploring<br />
the Bodleian Libraries’ amazing<br />
manuscript collections, attending<br />
Latin palaeography classes,<br />
and presenting my research at<br />
international conferences.”<br />
“My visit to the archives was of<br />
endless value to me academically<br />
and really ignited my love for<br />
historical research. I was able to<br />
access sources that turned out<br />
to be hugely beneficial, such as a<br />
pamphlet that I had never heard<br />
of before, but was directly related<br />
to my topic of research.<br />
Without the funding I received<br />
from Queen’s, this trip simply<br />
would not have been possible.”<br />
Charlotte Forrest (History, 2019)<br />
Ramani Chandramohan (DPhil Medieval<br />
and Modern Languages, 2022)<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
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ACCESS AND OUTREACH<br />
I am delighted to be at Queen’s, having taken over the<br />
role of Schools Liaison Officer from Katharine Wiggell<br />
in September 2022. Coming from a disadvantaged<br />
background in the North West myself, I am excited to<br />
continue developing our support for students from a<br />
similar demographic.<br />
Emerging from the pandemic, our outreach<br />
programmes have finally been able to be delivered<br />
in-person again. Katharine was able to visit parts of<br />
our link regions she hadn’t been to before, including<br />
Burnley and Colne and different parts of Cumbria.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first in-person school<br />
visits to Queen’s began in<br />
September 2021 following<br />
the height of the pandemic,<br />
and it has been non-stop<br />
since.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first in-person school visits to Queen’s began<br />
in September 2021. Multiple schools have visited<br />
us each month, most of whom are just embarking<br />
on their university applications, although our<br />
youngest visitors were just five years old from a local<br />
primary school.<br />
<strong>The</strong> North West Consortium and the Lewisham<br />
Challenge Programme have flourished this year.<br />
We hosted two Visit Days for Year 12 students across<br />
Lewisham, as well as in-reach events for first-year<br />
Our Schools Liaison, Outreach & Recruitment Officer<br />
delivering an in-school presentation<br />
undergraduates from<br />
the North West. We<br />
have also strengthened<br />
links with the Queen’s<br />
Translation Exchange,<br />
supporting their International Book<br />
Clubs (p. 13).<br />
<strong>The</strong> academic year ended with the return of inperson<br />
Open Days, welcoming thousands of<br />
prospective applicants into Queen’s. With this came<br />
our Open Days Plus programme, during which we<br />
welcomed 100 Year 12 students to stay with us. We<br />
are looking forward to the return of the North West<br />
Science Residential in April 2023.<br />
Our new partnership with <strong>The</strong> Access Project<br />
launched in the autumn of 2022, offering targeted<br />
tutoring and mentoring to disadvantaged students<br />
in four North West schools. We cannot thank our<br />
Old Members and Friends who have supported this<br />
partnership enough, and we are excited to show you<br />
the impact the programme is having on the students<br />
next year.<br />
Regular updates on the access work at Queen’s can<br />
be found on Instagram – @queensoxaccess.<br />
Lauren Shields<br />
Schools Liaison, Outreach &<br />
Recruitment Officer<br />
Professor Lindsay Turnbull<br />
Fellow in Plant Sciences<br />
and Michel Fellow; Tutor for<br />
Outreach and Access<br />
I would like to extend heartfelt thanks on behalf<br />
of the Governing Body to those Old Members<br />
who supported, with their time and financially,<br />
the new <strong>College</strong> partnership with <strong>The</strong> Access<br />
Project. We are excited to be working with four<br />
schools in the North West to inspire and prepare<br />
students to apply to universities they might<br />
otherwise not consider, including (we hope) to<br />
Queen’s. It is also wonderful to see the work<br />
undertaken by our Schools Liaison Officer in our<br />
link regions move from strength to strength.<br />
Photo: David Olds<br />
Photo: David Olds<br />
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THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE<br />
TRANSLATION EXCHANGE<br />
Photo: David Fisher<br />
Language learning in schools across the UK has<br />
been in major decline for years, and this is having<br />
a profound impact on applicant numbers here at<br />
Oxford. At Queen’s we believe that this results from<br />
an increasingly limited school curriculum, where<br />
culture and creativity are scarce and the focus rests<br />
on function and exam skills.<br />
In 2018 we set out to address this crisis by founding<br />
the Translation Exchange (QTE), an ambitious<br />
project that inspires young language-learners to<br />
continue with their studies through their schooling<br />
and beyond. We were met with an explosion of<br />
interest and enthusiasm from Modern Languages<br />
teachers and pupils right across the UK. Over 1,000<br />
teachers have registered to involve their pupils in<br />
our programmes, and last year over 14,000 young<br />
people aged 11-18 took part in our new Anthea Bell<br />
Prize for Young Translators, translating poetry and<br />
prose with their teachers.<br />
Teachers report that our initiatives for languagelearners<br />
are making a real difference to motivation<br />
and uptake of languages at their schools. Having<br />
proved the concept<br />
of our work, we are<br />
now building capacity to<br />
meet the growing demand<br />
from young people and to<br />
strengthen Queen’s as the place where<br />
ambitious young linguists thrive.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Translation Exchange ended up being the<br />
main reason why I decided to apply to Queen’s.<br />
After participating in the International Book Club<br />
and the Anthea Bell Prize, I became sure that<br />
the Queen’s community would be for me. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
were incredibly enriching – and yet inclusive and<br />
welcoming – projects, and I would encourage<br />
any potential applicants to get involved.”<br />
— Eva Bailey (French and English, 2021)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Translation Exchange has been a grateful<br />
recipient of seed-funding from the <strong>College</strong>, an<br />
Eglesfield Benefactor, and trusts, foundations, and<br />
language-focused institutions. Over the next three<br />
years we plan to embed our creative programmes<br />
in schools by developing a training programme<br />
for teachers, increasing access to the Anthea Bell<br />
Prize, and founding an advocacy arm to influence<br />
Modern Languages education policy. We look<br />
forward to building on <strong>College</strong>’s strong tradition of<br />
Modern Language teaching and research, and will<br />
be sharing our plans with the wider Old Member<br />
community soon.<br />
“When I joined Queen’s as an undergraduate in<br />
2018 I immediately volunteered as a Translation<br />
Exchange Ambassador, keen to contribute<br />
to ensuring that every state school student<br />
had, as I did, a rich and creative experience of<br />
language-learning. I was convinced by QTE’s<br />
approach, and even exported the model to<br />
the Marseille school in which I taught during<br />
my year abroad. Now, a few months after<br />
graduation, I am back at Queen’s as QTE’s new<br />
Programme Coordinator, ever more determined<br />
to work towards equitable access to education<br />
and to forge a community of creative linguists.”<br />
— Jack Franco (French and Philosophy, 2018)<br />
Dr Charlotte Ryland<br />
Director of the Translation Exchange<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
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LEGACY GIVING<br />
SUPPORTING THE FUTURE IN MEMORY OF<br />
THE PAST<br />
Legacy and planned gifts have transformed<br />
Queen’s over the centuries. Starting with Robert<br />
de Eglesfield and continuing through the following<br />
seven centuries, these deeply personal gifts have<br />
enriched our students’ experience, developed our<br />
excellence in teaching and research, and enhanced<br />
our iconic buildings.<br />
In this financial year, the <strong>College</strong> received over £1.25<br />
million in legacy gifts. Each gift received makes an<br />
important contribution to the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
concerned to further the<br />
teaching of, and research into,<br />
world historical studies. This year we gratefully<br />
received a legacy gift from Anthony which will<br />
support the John Prestwich Fellowship in History.<br />
Each legacy gift has a story to tell and is a tribute<br />
to the life and memory of the person who gave it.<br />
Perhaps the most surprising legacy gift we received<br />
in 2021 was from the late Revd George Clark Vincent<br />
(Lit. Hum), who matriculated in 1904.<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
Every legacy gift is an<br />
investment in the future<br />
of Queen’s and the next<br />
generation of students and<br />
researchers. We all are<br />
most grateful.<br />
George was born in 1884 at Ligonier, state of<br />
Pennsylvania, USA. After gaining a second degree<br />
in theology at Queen’s, he spent his life serving as<br />
a church minister in the States and died in 1971.<br />
It was very moving to receive a legacy gift from an<br />
Old Member who had experienced <strong>College</strong> life at<br />
the beginning of the 20th Century but whose gift will<br />
benefit students 117 years later.<br />
Dr Claire Craig, <strong>The</strong> Provost<br />
Most legacy donors to the <strong>College</strong> give unrestricted<br />
gifts so that they can be used to support the area of<br />
greatest need at Queen’s. Sometimes donors may<br />
wish to support a specific area of <strong>College</strong> life that<br />
is particularly important to them. <strong>The</strong> late Anthony<br />
Gwilliam (Modern History, 1948) was particularly<br />
LEGACY GIVING AT QUEEN’S<br />
(Financial Year, 2021-2022)<br />
£1,250,998 was given as legacy gifts from<br />
twelve Old Members and friends.<br />
256 members of the Taberdars’ Society have<br />
pledged to leave a gift in their wills.<br />
Student Support<br />
Celia Gould and the Cyril<br />
Vysove Scholarships in<br />
Modern Languages<br />
Cyril Vysove (Modern<br />
Languages, 1941) matriculated at the beginning<br />
of WWII. His studies were quickly interrupted<br />
as he left to serve in the Royal Signals. He later<br />
died returning from the War.<br />
His niece, Celia Gould, wanted to honour Cyril's<br />
memory and talents as an Oxford prize-winning<br />
linguist by leaving a legacy gift to support the<br />
study of Modern Languages. When Celia died in<br />
2021, the Cyril Vysove Scholarships in Modern<br />
Languages was endowed and in 2022, Queen’s<br />
welcomed the first Vysove Scholar, Ramani<br />
Chandramohan (p. 11).<br />
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THE TABERDARS’ SOCIETY<br />
<strong>The</strong> Taberdars’ Society honours and recognises<br />
the generosity of those who want to leave a legacy<br />
or planned gift to Queen’s. Over the past year, we<br />
welcomed eight new members and thank every<br />
member for their continued support.<br />
In October 2021, Catherine House joined the Old<br />
Members’ Office at Queen’s, as its first Legacy Giving<br />
Officer. Previously she worked in the University of<br />
Oxford Development Office raising support for<br />
the University’s museums and the Oxford Botanic<br />
Garden and Arboretum. Catherine is responsible<br />
for the Taberdars’ Society and has enjoyed meeting<br />
many members of the society both at <strong>College</strong> and<br />
through visits outside of Oxford.<br />
at <strong>College</strong>. In May 2022, we combined the lunch with<br />
a visit to the Oxford Botanic Garden. Perfect summer<br />
weather meant we could relax in the gardens at<br />
Queen’s and enjoy a private tour of the University’s<br />
historic plant collections. After the difficult years of<br />
the pandemic, we were so pleased to welcome the<br />
Taberdars’ Society back to <strong>College</strong>.<br />
If you are planning on leaving a legacy gift to Queen’s,<br />
we would be delighted to hear from you and to invite<br />
you to join the Taberdars’ Society.<br />
Our annual Taberdars’ Society Luncheon gives<br />
members the opportunity to meet old and new<br />
friends, and to learn about the latest developments<br />
Remembering the Library<br />
Enhancing the impact of Queen’s Library<br />
and Archives<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Library has a special place<br />
in the memory of many Old Members. This year,<br />
two Old Members recognised its importance by<br />
leaving legacy gifts to enhance the work of the<br />
Library and Archives.<br />
<strong>The</strong> late Ian Drummond (English Language and<br />
Literature, 1973) left a legacy gift for the purchase<br />
of books and manuscripts in English Literature<br />
and History. This generous gift is enabling the<br />
<strong>College</strong> to continue to maintain and develop its<br />
rich holdings in these areas, including the recent<br />
acquisition of Thomas Tickell (Fellow, 1710-26),<br />
Oxford, a Poem (1707).<br />
<strong>The</strong> generosity of Old<br />
Members helps us to<br />
develop and make the<br />
most of the extraordinary<br />
collections held by<br />
the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Dr Matthew Shaw, Librarian<br />
Colin Dunn photographing a sixteenth-century<br />
heraldic manuscript.<br />
A legacy gift from the late Brian Wearing (Modern<br />
History, 1956) was given to help support the<br />
Library’s Digitisation Project. <strong>The</strong> purpose of<br />
this project is to make historical material in<br />
the Queen’s Special Collections and Archives<br />
available via the Digital Bodleian online library.<br />
Enabling researchers and historians to access<br />
this material without having to visit the <strong>College</strong> or<br />
handle books in need of careful conservation.<br />
Last summer we were delighted to work with<br />
Colin Dunn to digitise historical material at<br />
Queen’s. Colin specialises in high-resolution<br />
digital photography to produce digital images<br />
of manuscripts, early printed books, and other<br />
artefacts from special collections. As part of this<br />
project, the manuscript of Thomas Hardy’s final<br />
collection of poetry, Winter Words, and Thomas<br />
Crosfield’s diary of seventeenth-century Oxford<br />
life, was digitised.<br />
Photo: Colin Dunn (Scriptura Ltd).<br />
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MEET THE TEAM<br />
Dr Justin B. Jacobs<br />
Director of Development and<br />
Supernumerary Fellow<br />
justin.jacobs@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 289119<br />
Justin oversees the Old Members’ Office and leads on<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s fundraising strategy and activities. Justin<br />
also works with the <strong>College</strong>’s Eglesfield Benefactors.<br />
Dr Christine Baro-Hone<br />
Old Members’ Officer (maternity cover)<br />
christine.baro@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 279226<br />
Christine is responsible for our extensive calendar of<br />
Old Members’ events. You are welcome to contact her<br />
to find out more about events throughout the year.<br />
Jemma Hayward<br />
Old Members’ Assistant<br />
oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 279217<br />
Jemma assists with Old Member events and is the first<br />
port of call for your general Old Member queries.<br />
Heather Weightman<br />
Deputy Director of Development<br />
heather.weightman@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 279215<br />
Heather works with donors and potential donors who<br />
are interested in supporting the <strong>College</strong>’s mission,<br />
vision, and priorities. Heather also stewards Philippa<br />
Benefactors.<br />
If you would like to learn more about our current<br />
initiatives, or are interested in making a gift, please do<br />
not hesitate to get in touch.<br />
Catherine House<br />
Legacy Giving Officer<br />
catherine.house@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 279218<br />
Catherine is our Legacy Giving Officer and is responsible<br />
for <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Taberdars’ Society. If you have<br />
any questions about leaving a gift in your will, please<br />
contact Catherine.<br />
Amanda Sharp<br />
Regular Giving Officer<br />
amanda.sharp@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
+44 (0)1865 279225<br />
Amanda is our Regular Giving Officer and is responsible<br />
for the Queen’s Society, for those who make regular<br />
gifts (monthly, quarterly or annually) to Queen’s. Do get<br />
in touch if you would like to find out more.<br />
GIVING CIRCLES<br />
Eglesfield Benefactors 2 new 31 in total<br />
£100,000 and over lifetime giving<br />
Philippa Benefactors 10 new 102 in total<br />
£10,000 and over lifetime giving<br />
Taberdars’ Society Members 8 new 256 in total<br />
Those who plan to leave a gift to Queen’s in their will<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s Society 23 new 521 in total<br />
Those who give to <strong>College</strong> via a Regular Gift (monthly, quarterly or<br />
annually).<br />
If you are interested in becoming an Eglesfield<br />
Benefactor, please contact Dr Justin B. Jacobs at<br />
justin.jacobs@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
If you are interested in becoming a Philippa<br />
Benefactor, please contact Heather Weightman at<br />
heather.weightman@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
If you would like to learn more about the Taberdars’<br />
Society, please contact Catherine House at<br />
catherine.house@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
If you would like to learn more about the Queen’s<br />
Society, please contact Amanda Sharp at amanda.<br />
sharp@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
If you would like to know your lifetime giving please<br />
contact development@queens.ox.ac.uk<br />
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BENEFACTORS<br />
We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of the <strong>College</strong>’s major benefactors who donated to Queen’s<br />
in the Financial Year 2021-22 (1 August 2021 – 31 July 2022). All care has been taken to ensure the accuracy<br />
of this list. However, if you spot an error please accept our apologies and notify the Old Members’ Office so<br />
that we can amend our records for future publications.<br />
EGLESFIELD BENEFACTORS<br />
Dr Brian Savory (1951)<br />
Mr Michael Boyd (1958)<br />
Mr Rodger Booth (1962)<br />
Mr Andrew Parsons (1962)<br />
Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975) qs<br />
Dr Mel Stephens (1976)<br />
Mr Mark Williamson (1982) qs<br />
Mr Jacky Wong (1986)<br />
Mr Chris Eskdale (1987)<br />
Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987)<br />
Mrs Barbara Stewart<br />
PHILIPPA BENEFACTORS<br />
Anonymous x 2<br />
Mr John Palmer (1949) QS<br />
Mr Andrew Joanes (1952)<br />
Dr Ken Fisher (1955)<br />
Dr Bill Parry (1955) qs<br />
<strong>The</strong> Revd Canon<br />
Hugh Wybrew (1955) qs<br />
Mr Barrie Craythorn (1956)<br />
Mr Tim Evans (1956) qs<br />
Mr Walter Gilges (1956)<br />
Mr Barry Saunders (1956) qs<br />
Mr Martin Bowley (1957) qs<br />
Mr Keith Dawson (1957) qs<br />
Mr Charles Frieze (1957) qs<br />
Dr John Hopton (1957)<br />
Mr David Wilkinson (1957) qs<br />
Professor Yash Ghai (1958)<br />
Dr Roger Lowman (1959) qs<br />
Mr John Parsloe (1959)<br />
Dr Ray Bowden (1960) qs<br />
Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960) qs<br />
Mr Michael Lodge (1960) qs<br />
Mr Martin Dillon (1961)<br />
Mr Ron Glaister (1961) qs<br />
Mr David Brownlee (1962)<br />
Mr Philip Hetherington (1962)<br />
Professor Peter Bell (1963)<br />
Mr Clive Landa (1963)<br />
Mr William Marsterson (1963)<br />
District Judge Chris Beale (1964)<br />
Professor Dr Rod Levick (1964) qs<br />
Professor Lee Saperstein (1964) qs<br />
Mr John Clement (1965) qs<br />
Dr Michael Collop (1966) qs<br />
Dr Juan Mason (1967) qs<br />
Mr Paul Clark (1968) qs<br />
Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) qs<br />
Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) qs<br />
Mr David Seymour (1969) qs<br />
Professor Hugh Arnold (1970)<br />
Mr Alan Taylor (1971)<br />
Mr Richard Geldard (1972) qs<br />
Mr Tom Ward (1973) qs<br />
Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) qs<br />
Mr Philip Middleton (1974)<br />
Mr Stuart White (1975) qs<br />
Mr Fred Arnold (1976)<br />
Mr Mark Neale (1976) qs<br />
Mr John Betteridge (1977)<br />
Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) qs<br />
Dr Chris Ringrose (1979) qs<br />
Mr John Ford (1980) qs<br />
Mrs Diana Webster (1980) qs<br />
Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) qs<br />
Mr Joseph Archie (1982)<br />
Mr Alan Leigh (1982)<br />
Mr Stefan Green (1987)<br />
Mr Bob Burgess (1987) qs<br />
Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) qs<br />
Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) qs<br />
Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) qs<br />
Mr John Hull (1994) qs<br />
Mrs Anna Hull (1995) qs<br />
Mr Chris Woolf (1995) qs<br />
Dr Philippa Tudor<br />
LEGACY GIFTS<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> is grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who gave legacy gifts to Queen’s:<br />
<strong>The</strong> Revd George Vincent (1904)<br />
Mr John Boyes-Watson (1942)<br />
Mr Francis Ogden (1944)<br />
Mr Eric Wetherell (1945)<br />
Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948)<br />
Mr Alan Daniels (1953)<br />
Mr Brian Wearing (1956)<br />
Mr Ian Drummond (1973)<br />
Father Dominic Byrne (1974)<br />
Miss Celia Gould<br />
Mrs Ann Henn<br />
Mrs Daisy Voss<br />
Giving Circles icons designed by Nadja Guggi<br />
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