The Case for Queens' and the Queens' Understanding

	Engage with Queens’ - it is your College
	Benefit from Queens’ – you have unique privileges
	Commit to Queens’ – you can help secure the future

Queens' is now one of the largest Colleges in the University of Cambridge. In spite of limited resources in comparison with the major universities of North America, Cambridge has the distinction of being ranked Number 2 in the world.

Your College is presently "home" to 840 Undergraduate and Graduate Students and the Fellowship. The Collegiate system offers a unique experience of support, community, learning, debate and challenge. We are proud to boast a wider family of almost 10,000 Alumni Members in 95 countries around the globe.

As it has always been since our foundation, our principal objective is to provide, within our historic setting, first class education and research. The intensive support provided by Directors of Studies, Supervisors and Tutors currently costs the College £3.89 million per annum of which only £2.44 million is recouped in academic fee income. The balance of £1.44 million is found from the College's own resources, including our endowment and the generosity of our Members. This means that Queens' currently subsidises each student by almost £1,800 per annum.

All Members of Queens' have in our turn benefited to a greater or lesser extent from this and the wider Collegiate context. We received support from our predecessors and it is now our turn to ensure the future for the next generation. 

As the result of an initiative which has come from our own Alumni I therefore invite you to commit to Queens', to join with Queens' Members of all ages and to subscribe to the Queens' Understanding.

Thank you for your support.

John Eatwell
President

The Queens' Understanding

This understanding records our intention to help support the College as the College has supported us.

To study at Queens' is a privilege. We are very much aware of the advantages and opportunities that an education at Queens' provides and we appreciate that a significant part of that education was only possible as a result of the gifts of past College Members.

We therefore wish to record our understanding, the Queens' Understanding, which we hope will be followed by present and future Members, that, at some point, wherever life takes us, we will endeavour, in so far as we are able, to return to the College, by tax efficient giving and other means, at least the benefit that we received as students so that these monies may be used to fund future generations of Graduates and Undergraduates at Queens'.

Mr C J Abrahams (1976); Mr J E Blake (1972); Sir Peter Cresswell (1962); Sir Andrew Crockett (1962); Mr C J Curling FRSA (1968); Dr W E Duckworth OBE FREng (1943); Mr R A Greene (1970); Mr N C Grimshaw (1971); Mr N J Hamway (1974); Dr R L Hargreaves (1964); Mr M A Heffernan (1982); Mr R P Lester (1936); Miss A E Lovell (1985); Mr M C Maitland (1988);  Dr S N Mentha (1977); Mr A D Pomfret (1979); Mrs V A Prezeau (1989); Mr S P Quadrio Curzio (1984); Dr S S P Slatter (1963); Ms A Stanic (1996); Mr M V Sternberg QC (1970); Dr D F E Thallon (1954); Mr J A Tudor (1987); Mr W R F Urquhart (1952); Mr N K S Wills FRSA (1960).

To add your name to the Queens' Understanding please click here