The Queen's College Development Report 2019-20

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE
Financial Year 2019/20
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Photo: John Cairns

GIVING IN NUMBERS
Financial Year 2019–20: 1 August to 31 July
£5,413,600
in new funds was raised
by 659 donors,
including 33 friends
of Queen’s
ANNUAL GIVING
25% of donors supported
Queen’s with a single gift
67 donors have given for three
consecutive years or more
58 donors gave for the first time
this year
42 donors are under 35
1984 followed jointly by 1977 and
1997 were the matriculation years with
the highest number of donors
578 donors increased their donations
with Gift Aid
Our donors live in 23 countries and span
7 decades
THE QUEEN’S SOCIETY*
• We have welcomed 47 new Queen’s Society
Members
• 15 people converted their standing order to a
Direct Debit
• 20 Queen’s Society members increased their
Direct Debit
• The average monthly donation was £25
• 1984 is the matriculation year with the
highest number of Queen’s Society Members,
followed by 2002
* To join the Queen’s Society please complete the accompanying
donation form.
GIVING CIRCLES
Giving Group New Total number Threshold
Eglesfield Benefactors 3 26 £100,000 lifetime giving*
Philippa Benefactors 6 94 £10,000 lifetime giving*
Taberdars’ Society Members 13 205
Those who plan to leave a gift to Queen’s
in their will
The Queen’s Society 37 523
* If you would like to know your lifetime giving, please contact development@queens.ox.ac.uk
Those who give to College via an active
Direct Debit
THE IMPORTANCE OF
ANNUAL GIFTS
Consecutive Gifts to Queen’s
£7,000,000
TOTAL GIFTS TO
QUEEN’S
Donors who have given for ten
consecutive years
£6,000,000
£5,000,000
Donors who have given for five
consecutive years
Donors who have given for three
consecutive years
£4,000,000
£3,000,000
£2,000,000
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
£1,000,000
£0
2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
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FROM THE PROVOST
Dr Claire Craig
It is a pleasure to present this edition of the College’s
Development Report, covering the financial year
2019-20.
To say this year was unlike anything any of us had
expected would be both an understatement and
a statement of the obvious. Yet despite the many
challenges faced by the College in the last six
months of the year, 2019-20 was also a year in which
we were continually reminded of the important role
philanthropy – your philanthropy – plays in the history
and life of Queen’s. Without it, there is no question
but that the overall outlook for the College’s financial
health, and the range of choices it will face in the
coming years, would be markedly different.
We therefore count ourselves fortunate to study,
work and live in a College that has benefitted from
centuries of Old Members and friends having chosen
to support our students, tutors and historic buildings.
This year, 659 Old Members
and Friends made gifts of
their own to Queen’s
I only need look out of the windows of my study in
the Provost’s Lodgings to see the statues of Queen
Philippa and Robert de Eglesfield and be reminded
of how a single gift can keep on giving. There is
something immensely precious to be found in the
continuity of a College and its enduring community
founded by an act of generosity and foresight, to
be held in trust and passed from one generation to
the next.
This year, 659 Old Members and Friends made
gifts of their own to Queen’s. Two academic posts
were endowed, the Erel Shalit Carlsberg Foundation
Research Fellowship in Behavioural Neuroscience
and the Brittenden Fellowship in Black British History;
Queen’s students were given financial support when
they needed it most; and the College’s ability to reach
out to those for whom studying at Oxford seems an
impossible dream was greatly enhanced.
I recognise that each of these individual signs of
support takes on additional meaning in the current
financial environment. They remind those of us in the
College today of the importance Queen’s holds for
its Old Members and of the cross-generational and
international bonds of our community. Collectively,
we recognise that these gifts are what will enable
us to continue stewarding the College for those that
will come here to study, work and live in the years
to come.
Over the following pages you will be able to see
just some of the impact these donations have had
on the Queen’s community. There are undoubtedly
many more stories to be written and lives that will be
changed for the better in the years to come, and I
look forward to sharing them with you.
Thank you again to all of you who gave to the College
in 2019-20 and thank you in anticipation to those
who choose to give in the future. Queen’s is not, and
will not be, immune from the difficulties created by
the pandemic but, with your support, it will continue
to flourish in all it does.
Photo: David Fisher
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FROM THE SENIOR TUTOR
Prof. Seth Whidden
The College’s ability to withstand external pressures
and press on with its academic and research
programmes, despite unfavourable headwinds,
is thanks in no small part to its Old Members and
friends. Let me illustrate what I mean by this.
When the coronavirus forced the University to
announce a recruitment freeze on 21 April 2020, the
College was able to work with the History faculty
to secure the early replacement of the post held
by retiring History Fellow John Davis. Thanks to a
legacy gift from Old Member Fred H. Brittenden
(M. history, 1946), the Brittenden Fellowship in
Black British History can be funded entirely
by Queen’s for the first five years, after which
it will be jointly funded by Queen’s and the
Faculty of History. Put simply, without this legacy
gift the College’s tutorial fellowship in History would
have joined the queue with so many other frozen
University teaching posts.
Similarly advancing the College’s teaching
and academic profile, was an endowment gift
Queen’s received from the Carlsberg and Pettit
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Dr Justin B. Jacobs
It is a pleasure to be able to share with you here just
some of the impact our donors have had on the
Queen’s community over the past year.
In 2019-20 the College received new financial support
totalling just under £5.5 million and from over 650
Old Members and friends across seven decades
and from 23 countries. This is not only something for
which we are incredibly grateful, but as the Provost
has remarked, also a testament to the enduring and
cross-generational appeal the College continues to
hold for those who have been fortunate enough to live
and study here.
This year, the Queen’s Society, Taberdars’ Society
and our Philippa and Eglesfield Benefactors came
Foundations, for the
purpose of establishing
the Erel Shalit Carlsberg
Foundation Research
Fellowship in Behavioural Neuroscience.
Supporting cutting-edge research in a rapidly
changing field, this Fellowship has a natural home
at Queen’s and will put the College at the forefront
of a discipline that cuts across five departments
in Oxford.
These important posts only came about thanks
to the generosity and foresight of Old Members
and friends of Queen’s. Each post will make an
invaluable contribution to the intellectual life of the
College: one post asks us to consider the past so
that we might envision and create a better future;
the other applies core scientific principles to further
our understanding of ourselves. Together, they
contribute to the relentless pursuit of knowledge
of the human condition, and they are reminders of
the disciplinary breadth that we proudly celebrate
at Queen’s.
together to help the
College, its students and
its researchers. Together,
our donors have enabled us to
create world-leading research and tutorial Fellowships
in two key subjects, helped our students take
advantage of study and professional opportunities
that might not otherwise have been possible, and
raised the College’s profile for aspiring applicants in
the northwest.
Thank you again to those who chose to support
the Queen’s community last year, and on behalf
of the Old Members’ Office we hope to see
everyone back in College again soon.
Photo: David Olds Photo: David Olds
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FOCUS ON:
THE TRANSLATION EXCHANGE
Dr Charlotte Ryland
Photo: John Cairns
The Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE) was
established in 2018 and brings together people of all
ages to discuss and share literature from across the
globe. This kind of personal and creative interaction,
fosters a love of languages and encourages
participants to engage with international culture, learn
new languages and – in the case of our youngest
members – go on to study languages at university.
In 2019-20 the QTE was a recipient of support from
both Old Members and friends of Queen’s – support
which has enabled us to grow as a programme
and deliver on our mission of bringing the love of
languages and translation to a new generation of
potential scholars.
The pandemic posed a clear challenge to our inperson
events, but we were convinced that school
closures should not prevent pupils from engaging
creatively with other languages and cultures. QTE
have now developed a series of rich, creative virtual
encounters and have expanded activities to reach
15 countries.
QTE have now developed
a series of rich, creative
virtual encounters and have
expanded activities to reach
15 countries.
During Michaelmas and Hilary, 15 students from
across the University were trained by Old Member
Gitanjali Patel (Modern Languages – Portuguese and
Spanish, 2008) and literary translator Rahul Berry to
design workshops for primary and secondary pupils.
Six managed to transfer their workshops into virtual
sessions and the chair of our student committee
produced a series of mini video talks on studying
languages at Oxford.
The virtual QTE Book Club allowed participants and
guest translators to join online meetings from across
the globe. The potential to recreate the warmth and
vitality of an in-person discussion led to an additional
book club: one for Sixth Form students studying a
language at A-level. In July, 50 sixth-formers joined
us online to discuss The Island by Ana María Matute,
translated into English by Dr Laura Lonsdale (Fellow
in Spanish). We’re pleased that the international book
club for sixth-formers will now be a regular fixture in
the Queen’s Access & Outreach programme.
The international book club
for sixth-formers will now
be a regular fixture in the
Queen’s Access & Outreach
programme.
295 sixth-formers entered our brand new schools
translation competition named in honour of Anthea
Bell OBE which provided young linguists with a
creative outlet during school closures. The entries
that we received were testament to the excitement
and creativity that translation can bring to languagelearners.
With support from Prof. Seth Whidden (Fellow in
French), we published the first English translations
of an extraordinary blog that began to appear in
Le Monde during the pandemic. Fiamma Luzzati’s
comics-style blog depicts the pandemic from
multiple perspectives, portraying the experiences
and reactions of ordinary people as their lives are
suddenly changed. It is deeply moving and thoughtprovoking,
with plenty of humour, and presents a
real translation challenge. In June a total of 122
participants from across the world began to translate
sections of the blog.
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FOCUS ON:
ACCESS AND OUTREACH AT QUEEN’S
Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer
Katharine Wiggell
Photo: David Olds
This academic year’s Access and Outreach activities
started with our usual visits to schools and colleges
in our link regions, and concluded with a new online
programme of events for students as the country
entered lockdown. Thanks to the support of our
donors, we were fortunate enough to have the
financial freedom to explore new initiatives during
this challenging time, including our four Virtual Little
Open Days (June 2020) where Year 12 pupils from
our North-West link schools were invited to find out
more about the application process and life at Oxford
from the comfort of their own homes.
Our fantastic Student
Ambassadors continued to
give up their time to support
outreach initiatives whilst
studying at home during
Trinity term.
Our fantastic Student Ambassadors continued to
give up their time to support outreach initiatives whilst
studying at home during Trinity term: answering
questions during the July Open Days, creating ‘Meet
the Students’ videos for the College YouTube channel,
and interacting with Oxford hopefuls on our ‘Ask
Queen’s’ page. We supported prospective applicants
in new and exciting ways, and thanks to the monthly
support from the Queen’s Society, we will incorporate
some of these activities into our programme next year.
We are also pleased to be able to announce that,
thanks to the generosity of one of our Old Members,
we will soon be increasing our ability to grow Queen’s
presence and institutional links in the North West of
England with the creation of an additional Access and
Outreach Officer post. When appointed, they will work
with all of the Oxford colleges operating in this region
(through the University’s newly created North West
Consortium) and will increase direct links between
the region and Oxford through a combination of new
and existing local partnerships.
We will soon be increasing
our ability to grow Queen’s
presence and institutional
links in the North West of
England with the creation
of an additional Access and
Outreach Officer post.
Having two Access and Outreach Officers will not
only allow us to double our current Access provision,
supporting students within our link areas of Blackburn
with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumbria, Lancashire,
Lewisham, and Sutton; but it will also put Queen’s at
the forefront of working to support more Universitywide
Access and Outreach initiatives. This will allow
us to continue to make strides towards diversifying the
College’s undergraduate community, while reaching
the University’s goal of increasing participation from
students of under-represented groups.
Photo: John Cairns
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BENEFACTORS
We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of the College’s major benefactors who donated in
the financial year 2019–20. All care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this list. However, if you
spot an error please accept our apologies and notify the Old Members’ Office so that we can amend our
records for future publications.
EGLESFIELD BENEFACTORS
Anonymous × 4
Dr Bill Frankland (1930)
Mr Michael Boyd (1958)
Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975)
Mr Paul Newton (1975)
Mr Chris Eskdale (1987)
Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987)
The Pettit Foundation
The Carlsberg Foundation
PHILIPPA BENEFACTORS
Anonymous × 2
Dr John Long (1942)
Mr Mike Woodhouse (1948)
Prof Roger Pain (1949)
Mr John Palmer (1949)
Dr Brian Savory (1951)
Lord Lennie Hoffmann (1954)
Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew (1955)
Mr Barry Saunders (1956)
Mr Walter Gilges (1956)
Mr Barrie Craythorn (1956)
Mr Tim Evans (1956)
Mr David Wilkinson (1957)
Mr Martin Bowley (1957)
Mr Charles Frieze (1957)
Dr John Hopton (1957)
Mr John Parsloe (1959)
Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960)
Dr Ray Bowden (1960)
Mr Ron Glaister (1961)
Prof Stephen Scott (1961)
Mr Dave Brownlee (1962)
Mr Andrew Parsons (1962)
Mr Philip Hetherington (1962)
Prof Peter Bell (1963)
Mr Clive Landa (1963)
Dr Ken Morallee (1963)
Mr Raymond Kelly (1963)
Em Prof Rod Levick (1964)
Mr John Clement (1965)
Dr Juan Mason (1967)
Mr Alan Mitchell (1968)
Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968)
Mr Paul Clark (1968)
Mr David Seymour (1969)
Mr Richard Geldard (1972)
Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973)
Mr Tom Ward (1973)
Mr Philip Middleton (1974)
Mr Richard Sommers (1975)
Mr Stuart White (1975)
Mr Fred Arnold (1976)
Mr Gerry Hackett (1977)
Mr Tom Pütter (1977)
Mr John Smith (1980)
Mrs Diana Webster (1980)
Mr John Ford (1980)
Mr Jonathan Webster (1981)
Mr Joseph Archie (1982)
Mr Mark Williamson (1982)
Mrs Sia Marshall (1990)
Mr Cameron Marshall (1991)
Mr John Hull (1994)
Mrs Anna Hull (1995)
Mr Chris Woolf (1995)
Mr John Startin (1997)
LEGACIES
Mr Fred Brittenden (1946)
Prof John Merrills (1960)
Mr Anthony Petty (1948)
Mr Timothy Shaw (1950)
& Mrs Anne Shaw
Prof Philip Smith (1964)
A full list of named donors will be published in the 2020 College Record and a copy will be available on the
Queen’s website.
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