Making a Gift

Thank you very much for considering a gift to Christ’s. We welcome donations towards any area of our activity, from student support, to teaching, research and maintaining and improving the facilities. However, our key fundraising priorities are:

• Endowment

• Graduate Students

• The LIbrary

Endowment

This is key to the College being able to move forward as our endowment gives the College flexibility to respond to opportunities and challenges in a positive way. We estimate that we need an additional £20m to £30m over the medium- to long-term.

Graduate Students

The College has a stated strategic aim to increase the number of graduate students by 50% over the next 5 years. In order to do this we need to make sure that funds are in place to provide additional accommodation for the extra students. We have leased rooms commerically where necessary but this is only a short-term (and expensive) solution. There are three possibilities: to redevelop existing College properties subject to planning permission, to purchase properties near the College and to build a new accommodation block.

The Library

The College has engaged Rick Mather Architects (best known for their recent prize-winning work to redevelop the Ashmolean Musuem in Oxford) to carry out a feasibility study to create a new Library and Study Centre on the existing Bath Court site. The design they have developed will transform that part of College, providing a stunning new building with flexible spaces and a new covered court which will serve as a study space, meeting space, performance space and café. The estimated cost is in the region of £15m. 

There are many other areas of College life for which we are seeking support, including:

• Outreach Initiatives
• Undergraduates
• College Teaching Officers
• Research Fellowships
• Accommodation
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The Development Director, Catherine Twilley, would be very pleased to talk in more detail about any of these initiatives to those considering making a gift.

Below you will find more information about different ways of making a gift to College. If you have any questions please contact the Development Office.

Please follow the links below to make

• a one-off gift using a debit/credit card (please note that Charities Aid Foundation makes a charge of 4.5% on the transaction so we advise those making donations of more than £500 to contact the Development Officer to discuss alternative ways of making a gift) -
  
  
  
• a regular gift by setting up a direct debit -