Forging the Future
The Queens' 575 Campaign - Forging the Future
| In the year 2023 Queens’ celebrates the 575th Anniversary of our foundation. To mark this major milestone in our history we are launching The Queens’ 575 Campaign, to forge the future of the College, to build on our long and distinguished record and to address the special challenges of the 21st century. | |
| Our priorities are • Teaching and Research • Students • General Funds and the Endowment | |
| Our aim is to raise £30 million from donations by the year 2023 and, with generous gifts from a number of our Members, we have already made a significant start. You too can make a difference and we invite your support for The Queens’ 575 Campaign. | |
| The Background to Change - Why Queens’ raises funds and what your donations are used for | |
Our mission is:
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| Changes in the structure of the funding of universities, the consequent impact on the Colleges in Cambridge and the considerable costs to all students who now strive to gain their degrees at undergraduate and graduate level have all ensured that our priorities as a College are clear. The College is determined to achieve its ambitions however tough. In order to do so we need to raise a total of £45 million by 2023; £30 million from donated income and £15 million from the College’s own efforts based on management of the Endowment. Queens' College "If we didn't have Colleges in Cambridge we would wish to invent them" Cambridge University is regularly identified as one of only two European universities in the global top ten. It is no coincidence that these same two universities share collegiate structure, of which Queens’ College is a part. While Faculties foster their own subjects, Colleges, such as Queens’, provide a unique interdisciplinary environment. Our academic Members work in different subjects at all levels, from undergraduate to professor, and the enduring qualities of independence and diversity, together with the competition between Colleges, fosters intellectual advance in both teaching and research. Queens’ College is a community of 490 Undergraduates, 350 Graduate Students, 75 Fellows and 120 Staff. Founded on benefaction, Queens’ has thrived for over 560 years as a result of numerous generous donations. We provide an unrivalled academic environment and top quality teaching. We recruit students with enormous potential wherever they come from and we are committed to encouraging applications from all sources. We aim to maintain and improve our standards and to do that we have established clear priorities to take us forward to the year 2023, and beyond. | |
The Queens’ 575 Campaign – Strands and Programmes for Forging the Future | |
You can make a significant difference by committing to a gift to Queens' and joining our list of donors. Over the past ten years we have raised £12 million for the College from hundreds of gifts and legacies, large and small. Every donation you make contributes directly to the work of the College and every donation, however large or small, is important to us. If you would like to discuss a specific gift or legacy please contact Dr Diana Henderson. The strands of the Campaign are: | |
| Queens' Calling From the day that you matriculate you become a Member of Queens’. The Annual Telephone Fundraising programme is an important way for the College to foster that life-long relationship. Calls from students are not only intended to encourage you to make or renew a gift to Queens’, but also to update you about what the College is doing and to invite you to events. In addition, a call can be an opportunity for you as a Member to offer your thoughts and ask questions about Queens’. | |
| 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 (1985); Mr N P Backhouse (1982); Mr N J Barsley (2002); Mr J E Blake (1972); Mr G C R Bonner (1948); Mr T B Bradley (1989); Dr J N Bulmer FRCA (1970); Mr D P G Cade FCA (1961); Mr R J Campbell OBE JP (1960); Mr D J Cashman (1993); Dr A H Chalmers (1963); Mrs R J Claase (1999); Ms L K Cogswell (1991); Mr J M Collinson (1948); Mr N J Cooksley QC (1971); Sir Peter Cresswell (1962); Sir Andrew Crockett (1962); Mr C J Curling FRSA (1968); Mr J M Duck (1979); Dr W E Duckworth OBE, FR Eng (1943); Mr C W Dyment (1958); Dr J V Earle MBE (1943); Dr R M Ellice (1966); Mr D R Gooderson (1959); Mr R A Greene (1970); Mr N C Grimshaw (1971); Mr N J Hamway (1974); Mr G A Hardy (1947); Dr R L Hargreaves (1964); Mr J C W Hart (1941); Mr W J T Heard (1970); Mr M A Heffernan (1982); Mrs S A Hobbs (1980); The Revd L A Hubbard (1957); Mr R P Joscelyne (1955); Dr A J Kent FRGS (1998); Mr J P Kent (1982); Mr C J Kirwin (1961); Mrs A E Koerling (1985); Miss A V Lawson (1994); Professor Emeritus J H Lazarus FRCP, FRCOG, FACE (1960); Mr R P Lester MBE (1936); Dr A D Macnair (1964); Mr M C Maitland (1988); Mr K A Maxwell (1978); Dr S N Mentha (1977); Dr F C Millard FRCS, FRCR (1976); Professor V M Oh (1966); Mr J R Pike (1964); Mr G E Pipe (1964); Mr A D Pomfret (1979); Mrs V A Prezeau (1989); Mr S P Quadrio Curzio (1984); Mr J Redfern (1953); Mrs C J S Robertson (1990); Dr M B Rose (1959); Dr J C Sargent (1980); Dr S S P Slatter (1963); Mr H K Smith (1983); Ms A Stanic (1996); Mr M V Sternberg QC (1970); Dr D F E Thallon (1954); Mr W A Thallon (1981); Dr Y Tsukamoto (1990); Mr J A Tudor (1987); Mr W R F Urquhart (1952); Mr R W Vaughan-Williams (1954); Dr S D Vincent (1990); Mr N K S Wills FCA, FCT, FRSA (1960) To add your name to the Queens' Understanding please click here | |
| The Queens’ College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard in the University of Cambridge is registered with The Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 1137495. Dr Diana M Henderson, Fellow and Director of Development, Queens’ College Alumni & Development Office, Queens’ College, Cambridge CB3 9ET 01223 331944 alumni@queens.cam.ac.uk www.queens.cam.ac.uk | |
