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:
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Endowment
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Graduate Students
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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. In 2009-2010 the College will be leasing rooms commerically 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 recently 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 other areas of College life for which we are seeking support, including:
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Outreach Initiatives
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Undergraduates
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College Teaching Officers
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Research Fellowships
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Accommodation
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The Boathouse
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Other (including the Visual Arts Centre)
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 -
- a regular gift by setting up a direct debit -
What it means to me
What Christ's Students think about the support offered to them from the College and its Alumni
Having had the opportunity to represent Cambridge, and race against Oxford, at the Henley Boat Races was an incredible experience. The journey to the boat race was of course hugely testing physically, but was also a substantial burden financially. I am extremely grateful for the financial support I received from College which greatly eased this strain, and without which it certainly would have been more difficult to concentrate on achieving to the highest of my ability.
Penny Thuesen m. 2007
As beneficiary of the Grantchester Bursary, I would like very much to thank the benefactors, without whose kindness my time at
The first two years of my time at
Paul Sutton m. 2006
I was a recipient of a College Travel Grant, which enabled me to participate in a German Language Course at Technische Universität Dresden. It gave me the opportunity to improve my German, meet lots of different people from around the world, and live independently in another country. The various challenges I faced – from taking the bus to the university, to persuading German Border security to let me re-enter
Barinder Banwait m. 2005