The Queen's College Record 2023
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Old Members’ Activities<br />
650TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
TRUST FUND AWARD REPORTS<br />
650th Award-winners<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were 27 applications for this year’s awards; 14 were from JCR students and<br />
13 from MCR students. 14 grants were awarded: nine to JCR members and five to<br />
MCR members, as follows:<br />
Elisa Cozzi for her project ‘Inflammable air’: Oxford, Éire, and Air Ballooning, 1784-<br />
1812, investigating the cultural history of air ballooning in Britain and Ireland in the late<br />
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its connections to Oxford, particularly<br />
to <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong>.<br />
David Craven to fund training camps for rowing and gymnastics.<br />
Cormac Diamond to support performing with <strong>The</strong> Oxford Gargoyles jazz a cappella<br />
ensemble at the <strong>2023</strong> Edinburgh Fringe festival.<br />
Alaw Evans to take a recital performed for the EMS and expand it into a theatrical<br />
show fusing art, jazz, and monologues for the Edinburgh Fringe festival.<br />
Matilda Evans to participate in an exchange programme with a Japanese sailing<br />
university.<br />
Philippa Garbutt for her involvement in Women’s Blues Varsity Hockey, including<br />
her mentoring role as Vice-Captain. (Pippa Koller Prize)<br />
Elin Isaac to visit historical and cultural sites in Morocco.<br />
Tal Jeffrey to support his work with OxPods (co-founded by Tal), a new podcast<br />
society that aims to communicate cutting-edge research to the broader public.<br />
Madeleine Ridout to follow the traditional Japanese pilgrimage route of the Kumano<br />
Kodo.<br />
Kathryn Smith to support her blues training for pentathalon and fencing.<br />
Samuel Teague to take a small choir of current and former <strong>College</strong> members to<br />
the Lake District to lead services in churches with a historic connection to Queen’s.<br />
Samuel Troy to attend a Spoken Classical Greek course on Euboea (an island near<br />
Athens), followed by a couple of days visiting museums in Athens.<br />
Olivia Winnifrith to take a play originally performed in Oxford (a modern translation<br />
and feminist interpretation of Molière’s Tartuffe) to the Edinburgh Fringe festival.<br />
One award was returned by the recipient due to safety concerns about the<br />
organisation with which he had been hoping to work.<br />
72 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
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