The Queen's College Record 2023

(Chemistry, 1975) for his many years of involvement with the Association, the 650 th
Anniversary Trust, and the Development Committee.
The 2022-23 academic year also provided further proof of the continued and
significant impact donors are having on Queen’s students, the College’s academic
excellence, and its expanding access and outreach activities.
Over the course of the year the College received £2,010,430 in gifts and pledges
from 658 Old Members and Friends. Our total donor number rose from the previous
year, which increased the cumulative impact of the gifts received, and the median
gift received over the course of the year was £25. Each gift makes a difference to
the College and this year this was especially true.
Old Members’ Activities
In what was an economically challenging year for many, the Queen’s community
nevertheless rallied together, and many were recognised for their support. At the
year’s end the membership in The Queen’s Society (for monthly/annual donors)
increased to 526; membership in the Taberdars’ Society (for those who have left a
gift to the College in their will) increased to 260; and the Governing Body was pleased
to elect three new Eglesfield Benefactors (lifetime giving in excess of £100,000) and
15 new Philippa Benefactors (lifetime giving in excess of £10,000).*
The impact of these gifts on the Queen’s community will be detailed more fully in
the 2022-23 Impact Report.
As a preview, this year’s edition will showcase how our donors strengthened the
College’s academic excellence – primarily through gifts to the Prestwich Fellowship
in History, the newly created Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE, and the
Neumann Fellowship in Maths; how they helped us ensure that our undergraduate
and graduate students had the support they needed when they needed it; and how
others supported – through donations and volunteering – the College’s ongoing
efforts to develop and reinvigorate its historic links to the Northwest as part of its
partnership with The Access Project.
This interest in raising educational aspirations was further matched by those Old
Members who helped take the joy and value of modern language learning to entirely
new groups of students outside of Oxford via the College’s award-winning Translation
Exchange programme.
We look forward to further sharing some of these tremendous stories later this
year, but for now I would like to say thank you again to all of those who supported
Queen’s this year.
*Old Members and Friends interested in their lifetime giving totals can find this out by
contacting development@queens.ox.ac.uk or by writing to the Old Members’ Office.
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