Donor Impact Report 2023-24

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE
DONOR AND
OLD MEMBER
IMPACT REPORT
1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024
Access All Areas: Phase Two

As JCR
Treasurer, I have
seen first-hand the
role that donations from
Old Members play in making
the Queen’s experience such a
rewarding one. The generosity
from Old Members touches
every aspect of life at College –
from academic grants covering
conference fees and subjectspecific
training, to the Arts
Fund, which has energised the
College’s growing arts scene.
Thank you.
Aditya Sinha (PPE, 2023)
2024-25 Treasurer of the
Junior Common Room

CONTENTS
From the Provost 2
From the Director of Development 3
Development Committee 3
QTE – Languages at Queen’s 4
Endowment Overview 6
From the Senior Tutor 7
The Waverley Music and Choir Gifts 8
Access and Outreach 9
Student Support 10
Old Member Engagement & Events 12
Benefactorships 16
Queen’s Fund and Society 18
Legacy Giving 19
Meet the Team 20
Benefactors 21
Photo: Edmund Blok Photo: David Fisher
GIVING CIRCLES
Photo: David Fisher
Eglesfield Benefactors 2 new 34 in total
£100,000 and over lifetime giving
Philippa Benefactors 7 new 120 in total
£10,000 and over lifetime giving
Taberdars’ Society 11 new 266 in total
Those who plan to leave a gift to Queen’s in their will
The Queen’s Society 14 new 540 in total
Those who give to College via a Regular Gift
(monthly, quarterly or annually).
Giving Circles icons designed by Nadja Guggi
If you are interested in becoming an Eglesfield
Benefactor, please contact Dr Justin B. Jacobs at
justin.jacobs@queens.ox.ac.uk
If you are interested in becoming a Philippa
Benefactor, please contact Heather Weightman at
heather.weightman@queens.ox.ac.uk
If you would like to learn more about the Taberdars’
Society, please contact Heather Weightman at
legacies@queens.ox.ac.uk
If you would like to learn more about the Queen’s
Society, please contact Sophie Elliott at
sophie.elliott@queens.ox.ac.uk
If you would like to know your lifetime giving please
contact development@queens.ox.ac.uk
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FROM THE PROVOST
Dr Claire Craig
Photo: David Fisher
It is my pleasure to present the 2023-24 Donor Impact
and Old Member Report, celebrating the incredible
contributions our Old Members and Friends have
made to Queen’s. Your generosity—both financial
and non-financial—has helped advance our mission
and enrich our community.
This record-breaking fundraising year has significantly
strengthened the three pillars of Access All
Areas: student support, academic excellence, and
access and outreach. Highlights include the success
of Queen’s Gives, our inaugural Giving Day;
continued progress in endowing Tutorial Fellowships
in Maths and History; and a transformational gift
that will ensure the future of both the teaching and
research of Music and the Queen’s College Choir.
Along the way the College has been able to recognise
and celebrate your support and impact on our
community by welcoming more Old Members and
Friends into the Queen’s and Taberdars’ Societies.
Governing Body also elected a number of donors to
Philippa and Eglesfield Benefactorships in recognition
of significant lifetime giving milestones.
and generosity have bolstered Queen’s enduring tradition
of excellence and innovation.
In the face of the social, political and economic
challenges over the past six years, your support
has helped to unite and strengthen us, while ensuring
the College remains a top college in the world’s
top university. I was grateful to have inherited such
a strong College community when I joined Queen’s
in 2019 and I am confident that there are strong
foundations upon which the incoming Provost can
continue to build.
Thank you again for affirming that a Queen’s education
is worth protecting for future generations.
Your belief in our mission inspires all of us to aim
higher and to continue shaping lives and advancing
knowledge.
I hope to see you back in College again soon.
As I prepare to step down at the end of this current
academic year, I reflect with pride on how your trust
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Planned Gift
Recurring Gift
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Dr Justin B. Jacobs
Photo: John Cairns
This was a record-breaking year for philanthropy
with Old Members and Friends donating just over
£8.9M in new funds raised across each of the three
strands of Access All Areas: access and outreach,
student support and academic excellence.
In addition, we were delighted to receive a significant
number of donations to support our historic buildings
and Library - ensuring that these architectural
treasures remain a tangible part of the Queen’s
experience for our students now and in the future.
We were also grateful to see donors continue to
place their trust in us by supporting the College’s
Area of Greatest Need, ensuring that the College’s
endowment will continue to grow so that it can
be carefully stewarded and applied whenever and
wherever necessary.
To make a year such as this possible, the
Queen’s community came together to support the
College in a number of ways. Perhaps this was most
recognisable as part of the Queen’s Gives Giving
Day over 29-30 May - one of Oxford’s most successful
ever in terms of funds raised (£300,000) and
total participants (400 donors).
As a result, Queen’s was able to recognise this
tremendous generosity throughout the year, with
fourteen new members of the Queen’s Society joining
eleven new members of the Taberdars’ Society.
Governing Body was also pleased to recognise key
lifetime giving milestones with the election of seven
new Philippa and two new Eglesfield Benefactors.
Thank you again to everyone who made this such a
special year for this special place.
PHILANTHROPIC INCOME
Single Gift < 5k
5k ≥ Gift Single
GIFT TYPE
58
£1,137,721
£347,009
Academic Excellence
Access and Outreach
556
12
£1,977,562
£5,432,371
General
Library and Buildings
4,151
£28,188
Student Support
Academic Excellence
General
Student Support
Library and Buildings
Access & Outreach
Single Gift ≥ £5k
Single Gift < £5k
Legacy (Planned) Gift
Recurring Gift
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
We are grateful to those Old Members who served
on the Development Committee in 2023–2024:
Richard Donner (PPE, 1980)
Ahmet Feridun (PPE, 2003)
Chris Finch (Modern History, 1975)
Anna Hull (Mathematics, 1995)
John Hull (Chemistry, 1994)
Elizabeth Pilkington (Mathematics, 2000)
John Turner † (PPE, 1984)
Thanks also to those Old Members who served
on the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund Committee in
2023–2024:
James Dinsdale (History, 2010)
Rachel Drapper (Egyptology, 2012)
Chris Finch (History, 1975)
Helen Geary (Literae Humaniores, 1996)
Mary-Eve Mcnerney (History & Politics, 2000)
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Dr Charlotte Ryland
Supernumerary Fellow and Founding Director
Photo: John Cairns
When I look back over the past year at the Queen’s
College Translation Exchange (QTE), the image
that immediately springs to mind is of the Shulman
Auditorium packed with smiling Old Members,
huddled together in small groups as they translated
a Mexican poem into English. This was the highlight
of the year for me at QTE: the opportunity to present
our work to Queen’s Old Members as part of the
Medieval and Modern Languages (MML) reunion
dinner, to see our enthusiasm reflected back to us,
and to thank all those who have supported QTE in
these early years.
The real stars of the show were three of our ‘Creative
Translation Ambassadors’: Queen’s undergraduates
trained by QTE to design and deliver translation
workshops in schools. Bryony, Éilis, and Teddy
orchestrated a collaborative translation activity in the
Shulman, followed by a multilingual poetry reading
after dinner in the Hall. The excitement, pride, and
creative and intellectual engagement in the room
were palpable, and this is exactly the atmosphere
that our ambassadors create when they visit schools.
While the picture for language learning across the
UK is looking increasingly dismal (I write this just
as a campaign is launching
to prevent the loss of Modern
Languages degrees at Cardiff University), at Queen’s
that picture is increasingly vibrant, innovative, and
connected: a result of the primacy of content, culture,
and community in all that we do.
Content
At QTE we believe that content matters. The texts
and contexts that young language learners meet
from primary school onwards need to speak to
those learners, to inspire and stretch them. Young
people are being turned off languages in droves by
the current content, which limits itself to what pupils
can do. They can talk about their pets, their weekend
activities, their views on recycling. The question that
is asked less often is: do they want to? Through
the Creative Translation activities that we develop,
the content encountered by young linguists knows
no limit.
The best example of that focus on rich and relevant
content comes from our Think Like a Linguist (TLAL)
project. This ran for a second year in Rochdale, while
Photo: David Fisher
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we also laid the groundwork to expand to Blackpool,
in partnership with Queen’s Access and Outreach
work. TLAL aims to support young people to make
informed decisions about their GCSE options, by
showing them what it really means to be a linguist –
taking in creativity, critical thinking, resilience,
problem-solving, collaboration, and innovation.
“I greatly enjoyed the programme, as it gave me
an infinitely wider knowledge of language and
what it means to be a linguist. I now know what
career paths it can take you on; I now have the
motivation to pursue it as a career.”
– Year 8 pupil, Rochdale
“I learnt that there is more to languages than
speaking and listening. It is also about thinking in
your own way.” – Year 8 pupil, Rochdale
Culture
Our Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators
develops content for the languages classroom
that is cultural, with teaching resources for ages
11-18 that introduce learners to texts ranging from
Baudelaire’s poetry to South American comics,
and everything in between. Last year over 16,000
young people and their teachers from schools right
across the UK took part, and expanded the project
by designing a new Russian-language strand,
made possible by a generous donation from an
Old Member. There are relatively small, decreasing
numbers learning Russian in UK schools, and at
the same time there is a need to raise awareness
amongst young people and their parents that
language learning does not stop when you leave
school. Indeed, as the rising number of ‘ab initio’
language degrees here at Oxford shows, it can
start after you’ve left school. In response to this
situation, our Russian resources include some for
pupils who have no knowledge of Russian, which
can be delivered by teachers with no knowledge
of Russian, alongside inspiring videos of Russian
students and translators speaking about the
pleasure and value of being a linguist.
“A large percentage of our pupils come from
some of the most deprived areas of central
Scotland. Engaging with this competition
has been an inspirational, motivational and
confidence-boosting experience for many
of them, and we thank you for running this
every year.” – Languages Teacher at Airdrie
Academy, Scotland
Community
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, at QTE we
seek to forge and expand communities of linguists,
to show young language learners that they are
joining a community that spans generations and
continents. Our event for Old Members exemplified
this community perfectly, and gave us the ideal
opportunity to document and share it: throughout
the afternoon, Queen’s MML graduates from every
decade agreed to step in front of the camera to
speak about what a languages education had
brought them, both professionally and personally.
These videos are now part of our resources for
schools, showing in classrooms across the country.
Since the QTE was founded at Queen’s in 2018, we are
thrilled that over the past year we have expanded the
QTE community to include, amongst others: Oxford
Admissions and Outreach, by designing resources
for the University’s central ‘Oxplore’ outreach
project; the University of Cambridge, now hosting
our Creative Translation Ambassadors programme;
and the policy community, through a project with
the Cross-Government Languages Group on raising
the profile of languages. These partnerships will
enrich our work as we move out of our ‘start-up’
phase and into one of more secure and sustainable
development, supported by investment from the
Laming Fund and from our growing community of
Old Member benefactors. We are in a position now
to make real and lasting change to language learning
and its profile. If you’d like to hear more, to find out
about how to get involved, or even to try your hand
at our Beginners Russian activities, please do get in
touch: charlotte.ryland@queens.ox.ac.uk.
Photo: David Fisher
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Photo: John Cairns
ENDOWMENT
OVERVIEW
The Bursar
Dr Andrew Timms
The College’s endowment is a pool of investment
assets that generates income to support a wide range
of activity. These assets represent the accumulated
wealth of the College over seven centuries—
essentially, charitable benefactions that have been
carefully stewarded by the College. The result in
2024-25 is an endowment that is responsible for
funding a substantial proportion of our activity and
underpinning the financial strength of the institution.
Teaching and Research
Residential and catering
Trading
INCOME VS EXPENDITURE
Financial Year, 2023 – 2024
INCOME
Total: £16,436 (000s)
£9,286
£3,315
£3,041
From a financial perspective the past year was very
positive. The endowment performed well, with a
total return of around 11%. In addition to decent
growth in the equity portfolio, the College completed
the sale of around 63 acres of agricultural land for
residential development at Keresley on the outskirts
of Coventry, which generated a net receipt of almost
£25 million. The sale was achieved in the aftermath of
considerable disruption to the market for residential
development, a consequence of the previous
government’s unwise mini-budgetary experiments,
and we were fortunate to be able to complete it at
all. As some Old Members will know, this land had
been in the College’s ownership since around 1520
and is part of a wider landholding at Keresley, much
of which falls within an area earmarked for suburban
development by the local authority. At least two
further disposals of land for separate residential
schemes are expected in the next few years at this
location (and at least one other scheme is planned in
another location near to Southampton). For the first
time in its history the College’s closing net assets for
the year exceeded £500 million.
In terms of its operational finances the College also
performed well. Tuition income was high (reflecting
the current size and home/overseas mix of the
undergraduate student body) and our commercial
summer trading had a good year. Income from
donations totalled £9.3 million, which is an excellent
result, driven by the exceptional generosity of the
Old Membership. Support at this level, combined
with regular and legacy gifts, significantly helps the
College to secure its future, and we are very grateful
for it.
Philanthropic income
Teaching and research
Residential and catering
Trading
Excludes investment income
and investment management costs.
Total: £16,306 (000s)
Philanthropic and
Legacy income
EXPENDITURE
£13,641 (000s)
(minus pension deficit movement of –£2,665):
£539
£258
£1,363
£5,892
Teaching and research
Residential and catering
Maintenance
£831
£794
£7,423
Fundraising
Trading
Student support
Student
Trading
Fundrais
Mainten
Residen
Teaching
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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Prof Seth Whidden
Roger Pearson Fellow in French and Senior Tutor
Photo: David Fisher
The Academic Excellence strand of Access All Areas
directly addresses the College’s founding mission:
providing our students with a world-class education
to challenge and change the world.
We deliver this mission through our ongoing
commitment to the intensive, personalised, and
intellectually challenging Tutorial System. As Tutors,
we recognise the value of this unique teaching style
and the ongoing need to promote and protect it.
Thanks to the support we receive from Old Members
and Friends we have continued to make critical
progress in doing just this.
In 2023-24, the College received regular, major,
and legacy gifts to the Peter Neumann Fellowship
in Mathematics and the John Prestwich Fellowship
in History. Each of these gifts brings these critical
Fellowships closer to full endowment; once complete,
they will join those in Chemistry, Medical Sciences,
Modern Languages, and the just endowed Waverley
Fellowship in Music (see p. 8). They enjoy a permanence
that no external pressures can threaten.
Fundraising for subject endowments secures both
academic and financial freedom. When a Tutorial
Fellowship’s endowment meets its goal, Queen’s is
able to redirect funds to other priorities, ensuring we
can meet the challenges of the future with the same
vigour we bring to our tutorial teaching.
Here is our progress to date in endowing Tutorial
Fellowships at Queen’s:
FELLOWSHIPS ENDOWMENT CHART
NON-ENDOWED
Biology
2
Mathematics
1
Biochemistry
2
Materials
2
Psychology
1
Philosophy
1
Economics
1
Politics
1
Classics &
Ancient History
1
Law
1 1
English
1 1
PARTIALLY
ENDOWED
Peter Neumann
Mathematics
1
Physics
1
John Prestwich*
History
1
FULLY ENDOWED
Jack Linnett
Chemistry
2
Kingsland
Medical
Sciences
1
John Moffatt
Physics
1
Medical
Sciences
1
Roger Pearson
French
1
Fred Brittenden
History
1
Centenary
Visiting
Professorship in
PPE
1
Laming
Modern
Languages
2
Waverley Music
1
Waverley
Director of Choir
Music
1
£3.6M required for full endowment.
£2.5M required for full endowment.
£44.4M = full endowment of nonendowed
posts (based on 3.5%
endowment draw down rate)
*We are delighted to announce that as of
March 2025 the Prestwich Fellowship has been
endowed. We will report on this in the 2024-25
Donor Impact and Old Member Report.
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THE WAVERLEY MUSIC
AND CHOIR GIFTS
Prof Owen Rees
Waverley Fellow in Music and College Organist
Photo: John Cairns
Members of The Queen’s College Choir
Photo: John Cairns
The exceptional Waverley gift for music at Queen’s
provides enduring support for musical education,
training, and performance within the College and
abundant opportunities for development. Within
the academic sphere, the College’s post in music
is now fully endowed as the Waverley Fellowship in
Music, and I am proud to be the first holder of that
named position.
The second major element of the gift is directed
toward the future of the College choir. The creation
of a new Waverley Director of Choral Music post at
Queen’s will ensure that the choir’s work – including
through concerts in the UK and abroad, recordings,
broadcasts, and commissioning of new works – will
be able to develop strongly. This dedicated post will
come into being upon my retirement in some nine
years’ time, and it constitutes a cumulating and
extremely important stage in the endowing of the
choir (such as the choral scholarships awarded to
singers) over recent years.
With the establishment of these two discrete posts –
one focused on teaching and research in music,
the other on choral direction and performance –
the successful efforts of the College in both of these
areas is ensured in the long term. Such support for
both academic music and choral performance and
training is particularly welcome within a broader climate
of declining provision of and opportunities for
music education, witnessed both at school level
and also, for example, in the closure of university
music departments.
The Waverley gift
will enhance musical
opportunities for the
College’s undergraduate and
graduate students
Thanks to the vision and generosity of the Waverley
Fund, undergraduate and graduate members of the
Choir will have opportunities to undertake the kinds
of projects that they will remember for the rest of
their lives.
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ACCESS AND OUTREACH
Schools Liaison, Outreach & Recruitment Officer
Molly Lockwood
In 2023-24, we have worked hard to reach as
many students as possible whilst also maintaining
impactful, engaging outreach activity. We worked
with a total of over 3,500 students from 89 state
schools across the country, primarily from our North
West link areas. Our partnership with The Access
Project, now in its third academic year, continues to
go from strength to strength.
To support our furthest link schools in being able to
visit Queen’s, we have offered a partial travel reimbursement
scheme. A return coach from Lancashire
can cost upwards of £1,800 which, if not able to be
covered by a school’s already limited budget, has to
be passed on to students and parents. In response,
and facilitated by gifts from Old Members, we have
been delighted to contribute to travel costs to allow
schools to visit us in person. One school in Carlisle
brought 15 pupils to stay with us overnight and experience
life and learning as a university student, a
journey of around five hours each way!
It has been really exciting to expand our portfolio
of outreach work this academic year. We have
collaborated with our neighbours at Corpus Christi
College to launch the Ancient Worlds Network; a
pilot residential in 2024 welcomed 14 students from
across the North West to Oxford to take part in a
range of classics-related academic activities. Our
North West Science Residential goes from strength
to strength, with 140 applications in 2024 for only 26
places on the programme. It is clear that the taste
of undergraduate life, through tutorials and living in
College, can be transformational.
Our regular programme of outbound visits to our
link schools has been particularly rewarding this
Student Ambassadors at Summer Open Day 2024
Photo: Edmund Blok
year. In 2023-24, I visited 38
schools, delivering a range
of talks and workshops to
students from Barrow to Blackburn
(and everywhere in between!).
Prof Lindsay Turnbull
Fellow in Plant Sciences and
Michel Fellow
Tutor for Outreach and
Access
Photo:
David Olds
Access and outreach is not a new concept at
Queen’s; the generous and continued support
of Old Members and Friends was clear from the
donations we received from the College’s first Giving
Day. An incredible £14,785 was pledged to access
and outreach, and we are grateful that we can run
an extensive programme of widening participation
initiatives with your support.
Looking ahead to the 2024-25 academic year, there
is much to look forward to. We are working closely
with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange to
bring their successful Think Like a Linguist model to
our link schools in Blackpool, as well as continuing
our programme of taster days, outbound visits, and
residentials.
We are thrilled to continue our
partnership with The Access Project for a
further three years from September 2025. We
have already supported 263 students from
under resourced backgrounds in West Cumbria
and Darwen to consider higher education, and
we will support TAP to expand and reach more
students in Lancashire, including a new KS5
setting in Darwen. Highlights from the 2023-24
academic year include an overnight residential
for Year 12 students from Workington and
Whitehaven, focusing on making a competitive
application for a selective university. We also
welcomed Year 10 students from Darwen Vale
High School to experience taster sessions
with Queen’s academics and meet current
undergraduate students. This renewal provides
further opportunities for Old Members to
support our outreach work in the North West.
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STUDENT SUPPORT
Wendell Herbruck
Scholarship
The scholarship
provides annual support to
a student from the United States, helping
to cover course fees. The annual award
for 2023-24 was taken up by Olakunle
Atanda (2023).
“I am grateful for the Wendell
Herbruck Scholarship, which
allowed me to pursue the Master
of Public Policy at Oxford and
immerse myself in the wider
life of the University. With this
support, I was able to engage
in programmes like the Oxford
SDG Impact Lab, the MCR, and
Queen’s outreach efforts. It gave
me the freedom to contribute
meaningfully to the community,
build networks beyond my
studies, and take full advantage
of everything Oxford has to offer.”
Olakunle (Kay) Atanda
(Master of Public Policy, 2023)
The JCR Arts Fund
This recently
established fund
provides support to
undergraduate students to put on plays,
musical productions, and other similar
performances in College. We are grateful
for Old Member contributions which have
been crucial for the fund’s success to
date. Thanks to their generosity, students
can regularly access arts funding, helping
to foster a thriving arts environment
in College.
“It has been a privilege to sit on
the Arts Funding Committee,
having been a recipient of the
funding myself. The fund has
made such a difference to
the College’s arts scene, from
supporting the recent student
opera, to journalism, to various
art projects, including an
upcoming Finalists’ exhibition in
London. It is so important that
students can express themselves
creatively and we have managed
to carve out a creative space
because of the generous funding
we have received so far.”
Rachael Naylor
JCR Arts Representative
(Ancient and Modern History, 2022)
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Photo:
John Cairns

The Amalgamated
Sports Fund
The Queen’s Fund
Gifts to The Queen’s
Fund support the
College wherever the
need is greatest, funding core initiatives
such as the tutorial system, financial
hardship assistance, and extracurricular
activities. Additionally, it helps remove
financial barriers to opportunities like
internships, as Elyse Airey (Biology, 2021)
shares below.
“I am very grateful for The
Queen’s Fund: as a Biology
student, I wouldn’t have been
able to engage with the course
in the same way without the
financial support I have received.
I was able to attend a field
course in the Canary Islands
to collect botanical data for
my degree, and to complete
two internships abroad - one
at the Max Planck Institute in
Germany and another at a lab
in Vienna. These experiences
have been amazing for my career
development and personal
growth, allowing me to live
abroad and engage with life
beyond Oxford. Thank you to
the generous donors who have
made this possible.”
This fund provides support
to cover students’ essential
sports costs, including membership fees,
personal equipment, mandatory kit, and other
activity expenses.
Last year, we were delighted to receive
additional Sports donations from a small
group of Old Members celebrating their
matriculation anniversary at Queen’s.
From 2024, the new senior member of the
Amalgamated Sports Fund is Prof Paolo
Tammaro, Fellow in Pharmacology and
Michel Fellow.
“The support from the Amalgamated
Sports Fund has been invaluable to
Queen’s football. The funding has
allowed us to purchase essential
equipment, ensuring that everyone
can play, and contributing to greater
participation in the women’s team.
It has also enabled us to hire pitches
for training, helping us reach the 2s
Cuppers final last year and secure
second place in the 1s league going
into the run-in. We’re incredibly
grateful for the generosity of Old
Members, which continues to drive
our success on and off the pitch.”
Max Seagger,
Football Treasurer
(Chinese, 2021)
Elyse Airey
(Biology, 2021)
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OLD MEMBER ENGAGEMENT
& EVENTS
Dr Christine Baro-Hone & Jen Stedman
Old Members’ Officers
With 18 events our calendar was busy again this year,
and attracted 1,043 Old Members to come back to
College or our venues in London, Hong Kong, Miami,
Los Angeles, and Toronto. 1,300 former Queen’s
students are members of our LinkedIn group, and
over 6,000 receive our termly e-newsletter. We
have particularly enjoyed getting to know our recent
leavers – at the University’s Leavers’ Fair and back
in College. Our “New Old Members”
accounted for 19% of attendees at
our events, after the introduction of
discounted tickets.
Read more about some of our
engagement highlights below!
Finding our Voices: Student-Old Member Networking event
In celebration of the 45th anniversary of co-education,
the Queen’s Women’s Network collaborated with
the JCR and MCR Women’s Officers to organise
“Finding our Voices” – a student and Old Member
networking event and dinner in 7th week of Hilary
Term (Saturday 2 March 2024). The alcoves in
the Upper Library were transformed into speed
networking booths where Old Members shared
career and life insights from Queen’s until now.
Special thanks go to the following Old Members,
students, and Fellows who gave up their time to
share their stories for the evening:
Photos: David Olds
Dr Rina Ariga (Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow
in Pathology), Susan Diab (Modern Languages,
1982), Sara Hall (Modern Languages, 1981), Janet
Hayes (Modern Languages, 1981), Claudine Heron
(Engineering and Materials, 1994), Martin Horwood
(Modern History, 1981), Elsita Jungkurth (DPhil
Oncology, 2021), Isobel Morland (Modern History,
1979), Anushka Osborne (PPE, 2002), Francine
Raveney (English and Modern Languages, 1992),
Rhian Screen (Mathematics, 2002), Karen Spiller
(Modern Languages, 1982), Jane Welsh (PPE, 1979),
Chloe Wolff (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,
2002), and Fiona Yardley (Modern History, 1992).
Photo: Edmund Blok
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We were also grateful to Kate Jones (Modern
Languages, 1988), who gave good advice to
students after dinner in her keynote speech: “Five
‘provisional conclusions’ about the great questions
of life and work” (https://shorturl.at/fNuBU), and to
the JCR and MCR Reps Faith, Melody, and Xinyue,
who reflected on the making and experience of this
event in this blog post: https://shorturl.at/JFMdk.
A day of Cricket in memory of Dr Martin Edwards (Mathematics, 1960)
On Saturday 29 June 2024, Old Members, Fellows
and staff across the generations gathered to
celebrate the life of Emeritus Fellow and Old Member
Dr C. Martin Edwards (1941-2021) in a fitting sports
tribute at the Queen’s Sports Ground. We were
graced with beautiful weather, delicious food,
fond memories, and great company. Alongside
the match, the memorial included speeches from
the Provost, former Provost and Honorary Fellow
Paul Madden and Honorary Fellow Claire Taylor
(Mathematics, 1994) as well as the unveiling of a
beautifully worded plaque to affix to the Pavilion in
memory of Dr Edwards. Special thanks to Jervis
Smith (Jurisprudence, 1978) who arranged and
umpired the cricket, and to all the players too!
Read the match report by Jervis here:
https://shorturl.at/c6tU7.
Photo: Edmund Blok
Flying the Crest: Engaging with our New Old Members
At the University-wide Leavers’ Fair in
June 2024, the Queen’s Old Members’
Office team welcomed recent
graduates into the Queen’s
alumni community. In exchange
for a favourite memory of their
time in College, blue-tacked to
our vintage ‘suitcase of memories’, they
received an exclusive Queen’s-branded
luggage tag to accompany them on their
future journeys, as well as pens, stickers,
mints, bookmarks, and postcards. It was fantastic
to hear all the exciting things they have planned, and
we look forward to welcoming them back at one of
our events soon.
Our discounts aimed at Old Members
within 10 years since matriculation have
been successful in enticing a younger
demographic to give our events programme
a go, and it has been lovely to see the
generations mingle over tea, drinks, or dinner.
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“The New Old Member ticket is a great
scheme… It’s great value for our stage of life
and a wonderful opportunity to visit Queen’s
again after graduating.” (Michael Mortimer,
Mathematics and Philosophy, 2018)
“We found ourselves sitting opposite three
very new Old Members (matric 2018 and 2019)
and, as ever, they were excellent company –
interesting and interested in us, willing to repeat
themselves as many times as we much older
Old Members needed.” (Mark Evans, Modern
Languages – French and German, 1977)
Photo: Christine Baro-Hone
Queen’s on tour ... with a little help from our friends
In December 2023, Old Members had a great time
at a dinner hosted just off the coast of Miami on
Fisher Island by Andrew (Modern History, 1962) and
Carol Parsons.
Terence Keyes (Mathematics, 1977) hosted a reunion
dinner at The Hong Kong Club with Sedleian
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Fellow,
Professor Jon Keating on 27 May 2024.
An interdisciplinary panel in London, featuring Sara
Habib (Mathematics and Philosophy, 1997), Matthew
Bilson (MSc Energy Systems, 2020), Xinyue Liu (DPhil
Fine Art, 2022), and Professor Steven Kelly (Fellow
in Biology), gave great insights into sustainability
solutions at our Old Members’ Drinks Reception at
the Arboretum on 14 May 2024.
Closer to home, during the Modern Languages
Subject Dinner on 16 March 2024, we marked the
100th anniversary of the death of Henry Laming
(Modern Languages, 1869), whose 1916 gift to
modern language teaching and research at Queen’s
continues to sustain the subject to this day.
The event was also an opportunity for Old Members
to learn about our ground-breaking and prize-winning
programme: The Queen’s Translation Exchange (see
pp. 4-5). Thank you to all the Old Members who
were happy being filmed for our ‘Where can learning
a language take you?’, which is used by the QTE
to promote language learning to school-aged pupils
(https://youtu.be/1m3zl7WtgGE).
Toronto
London
Los Angeles
Miami
Hong Kong
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EVENTS MEMORIES
Old Members’ Dinner –
16 September 2023
Queen’s at Meeting Minds –
23 September 2023
Jubilee Matriculation Lunch
for the year groups of
1953, 1963 and 1973 –
14 October 2023
Taberdars’ Society Event
in London –
19 October 2023
Queen’s Women’s
Network (QWN) Drinks
in London –
22 November 2023
Queen’s in North America
events (Miami, LA, Toronto)
–
4-7 December 2023
Boar’s Head Gaudy –
16 December 2023
Needle and Thread Gaudy –
6 January 2024
Taberdars’ Society
Luncheon –
17 February 2024
Maths Reception and Book
Launch in London –
21 February 2024
“Finding our Voices” QWN
Student-Old Member
Networking Event –
2 March 2024
Modern Languages
Subject Dinner –
16 March 2024
London Reception
at the Arboretum –
14 May 2024
Queen’s in Hong Kong –
27 May 2024
Benefactors’ Dinner –
15 June 2024
Martin Edwards
Memorial Cricket Match –
29 June 2024
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BENEFACTORS
This year, we spoke to Old Member and newlyelected
Eglesfield Benefactor Nishi Somaiya Grose
(PPE, 1998) about her love of Queen’s, and she has
chosen to support the College over the years.
What is your favourite memory about your
time at Queen’s?
Summer sunshine in the quad which was aweinspiringly
beautiful and architecturally impressive
but yet had an ease about it that made it feel like
home.
There are many charities Old Members
can choose to support. Why do you think
education and The Queen’s College should be
one of them?
My parents were immigrants to the UK who worked
tirelessly so that my sister and I could have access
to great education. This, above all, explains why
education has always held a very important and
I am inspired by exceptional
organisations that are
committed and passionate
about providing world class
training or teaching … I am
proud that Queen’s is one of
these places!
pivotal place in my life. I know how grateful I am for
the opportunities I was afforded because of this, and
so it’s naturally an area I feel very energised by.
I currently support several educational organsiations
and underpinning my belief in the value of education
is a focus on the provision and creation of more and
equal access to it. Queen’s, for example, has worked
hard to grow its access and outreach programmes,
Eglesfield Benefactor Nishi Somaiya Grose (PPE, 1998)
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largely thanks to the support it has received from Old
Members. I am inspired by exceptional organisations
that are committed and passionate about providing
world class training or teaching to able students
from all walks of life, and I am proud that Queen’s is
one of these places!
What inspired you to become a regular
donor to the College and then an Eglesfield
Benefactor — how do you see philanthropy
making an impact at all levels?
I often get asked about my own personal and
professional journey, and in reflecting on that you
really start to think about who and what has had
a meaningful impact on your life. For me, Queen’s
was definitely one of those incredibly special places
that played a very formative part in who I am and so I
started to give back early in my career as a member
of the Queen’s Society. As I grew in my career I
found myself beginning to reflect more on what my
time at Queen’s had given me: the formation of lifelong
friendships, debates with tutors regarding the
right ‘next step’ post-university life, the building of
a work ethic, access to the most brilliant minds to
develop my own critical thinking skills. I felt strongly
that I wanted to make these things available to the
students who followed me and so to be able to
give back at a more significant level was incredibly
rewarding.
How do you see Queen’s nurturing and
developing the talent of tomorrow?
Queen’s is unique and something only those who
have been privileged enough to experience can
fully appreciate. The unparalleled access to world
renowned teaching, commitment to academic
excellence, exposure to provocative thinking, and
endless clubs and societies is something that is
difficult, if not impossible, to find once you leave
Oxford. That all of it takes place within a tight-knit
community and in the most beautiful buildings and
grounds is an amazing recipe for both intellectual
and personal growth.
Queen’s is one of those
incredibly special places
that played a formative part
in who I am, so I started to
give back.
I was so pleased to be able
to support the endowment
of the Centenary Visiting
Professorship in PPE –
something which recognises
the long history of this iconic
degree in Oxford but has
opened it up to new voices
beyond Oxford.
What excites you most about the future
of Queen’s?
Queen’s is on a very exciting journey and since I’ve
graduated the College continues to develop in new
and positive ways. I see the College working hard
to adapt to and embrace modern ideas in line with
the needs of a rapidly evolving world, while at same
time doing its best to stay true to its rich history, core
values, and traditions. This is why, for example, I was
so pleased to be able to support the endowment of the
Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE – something
which recognises the long history of this iconic degree
in Oxford but has opened it up to new voices beyond
Oxford. For me, this blend of tradition and change is
what makes our College inimitable and unique!
Nishi is Global Head of Private Banking, Lending and
Deposits in the Goldman Sachs Wealth Management team.
In March 2025 Nishi was named one of Barron’s 100 Most
Influential Women in US Finance.
The College recognises Old Members and friends
in various ways, including the acknowledgment
of lifetime giving by electing Old Members to
Benefactorships. Currently, there are two types
of Benefactorship:
Eglesfield Benefactors: Those who
have given over £100,000 in their lifetime.
Philippa Benefactors: Those who have
given over £10,000 in their lifetime.
Donors who achieve these significant milestones
contribute through major giving, regular gifts, and
sustained donations over many years. Queen’s is
delighted that so many Old Members maintain a
lifelong connection and takes great pride in their
ongoing relationship with the College.
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THE QUEEN’S FUND AND
THE QUEEN’S SOCIETY
Sophie Elliott, Regular Giving Officer
Photo: David Olds
36 Hours of Giving
For two days at the end of May, Queen’s held its
first ever Giving Day, Queen’s Gives. Over 400
members of the global Queen’s community came
together and raised over £300,000 to help ensure
that current and future students have the best possible
College experience.
What drives our donors to give? The messages
on the Giving Day donor wall said it best. Many
shared personal stories of the College’s life-changing
impact and gave to ensure today’s students
have the same opportunities. Others championed
our access work in the North West, Lewisham, and
Sutton, united in breaking down barriers to education.
Above all, donors saw the Giving Day as a
chance to pay their experience forward, to enhance
it for today’s students, and to make it open to all,
regardless of financial circumstances.
Why Regular Giving
Matters
We are grateful to everyone
who supports Queen’s with a regular donation. Your
generosity continues to strengthen the College’s
ability to do more and help more students each year.
All areas of College life – teaching, research, student
activities and welfare, facilities and more – benefit
from the consistent support given by Old Members.
Last year, the College awarded 231 grants to support
students with course-related activities, books,
travel, and other areas of hardship. This level of support
is made possible by the gifts we receive on an
annual, quarterly and monthly basis.
In 2023-24, these gifts raised £214,015 – equivalent
to the income available from an additional
£6.1 million permanent endowment. This comprises
a sig nificant and reliable stream of income
which allows the College to plan with confidence and
invest in the future of our students and academics.
We are excited to build on this success and continue
to enhance the services and provisions that benefit
our students and academics.
A record-breaking year in fundraising
was made possible by the enthusiasm
and generosity of so many Old Members.
Over 11% of our contactable Old Members
supported the College last year.
Given the difficult financial circumstances
faced by so many, it is reassuring that
Queen’s remains an important cause for Old
Members all over the world.
A message on the Giving Day donor wall
Queen’s welcomed
118 first-time donors
903 donors
supported the College
Gifts came in from
Old Members in
28 different countries
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LEGACY GIVING
SUPPORTING THE FUTURE IN MEMORY OF THE PAST
Catherine House, Legacy Giving Officer
The College is so grateful for all the legacy gifts
received this year. Each gift is a tribute to the life of
the person who so generously decided to remember
the College in this way.
This year, we received a unique gift from the late Janet
Lancaster for the Library as a tribute to Dr William
Lancaster, who served as Provost from 1704 to
1730. Janet’s family felt that supporting the Historic
Collections would be a meaningful way to honour
both Janet’s life and Dr Lancaster’s contribution to
Queen’s in the eighteenth century.
We are deeply grateful to the partners of Old
Members who include the College in their wills.
This year we received two of these special gifts,
including a very generous gift from the late Daphne
Badcock. Daphne was married to Fred Badcock
(Modern Languages, 1952) and left a gift to set up a
scholarship for students studying modern languages
or classics at Queen’s.
The Enduring Impact of Legacy Gifts
Legacy gifts to Queen’s are carefully managed
to create lasting impact; supporting current and
future members of the Queen’s community.
In 1940, James Granville (Classics, 1880) left
£1K to help students take part in activities
beyond their academic studies. Today the
Legge Fund provides much-needed help with
the costs of taking part in University sports.
David Craven (Materials Sciences, 2021) was
one of the ten students to receive a Legge
support grant in 2023/24. It is remarkable to
think that an Old Member who matriculated
in 1880 is still supporting students today, 145
years later, through the enduring impact of his
legacy gift.
Legacy Giving At Queen’s
(Financial Year, 2023-2024)
£1,219,477 was given in legacy gifts from 10 Old
Members and Friends. 270 Old Members and
Friends have pledged to leave a gift in their wills.
David Craven captaining the University Men’s Blues
Gymnastics Team to Varsity success.
General
£1,014,982
Student support
£20,000
Scholarships
£164,495
Library
£20,000
“The main reason I donate regularly to Queen’s
and have made a bequest is because of
the value I place on education and how my
experience at Queen’s has helped me in my
career and life.”
— Martin Riley
(Modern History & Economics, 1985)
The Taberdars’ Society
Anyone intending to leave a gift in their will,
whatever the size, is invited to join the
Taberdars’ Society.
This past year, we held our second evening
event at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. The
Strange Survival of Liberal Britain talk by Sir
Vernon Bogdanor (PPE, 1961) was followed
by a lively discussion with the Provost and a
drinks reception.
Our Annual Luncheon took place in February
and this included an outstanding performance
by the Oxford University’s jazz vocal
ensemble, The Oxford Gargoyles.
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MEET THE TEAM
Dr Justin B. Jacobs
Director of Development and
Supernumerary Fellow
justin.jacobs@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 289119
Justin oversees the Old Members’ Office and leads on
the College’s fundraising strategy and activities. Justin
also works with the College’s Eglesfield Benefactors.
Dr Christine Baro-Hone
& Jen Stedman
Old Members’ Officers (job share)
christine.baro@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279226
jen.stedman@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279150
Together Jen and Christine are responsible
for our extensive calendar
of Old Members’ events as well as
our termly e-newsletter.
You are welcome to contact them to find out more
about our events or communications.
Heather Weightman
Deputy Director of Development
heather.weightman@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279215
Heather works with donors and
potential donors who are interested in supporting
the College’s mission, vision, and priorities. Heather
also works with Philippa Benefactors.
If you would like to learn more about our current initiatives,
or are interested in making a gift, please do
not hesitate to get in touch.
Catherine House
Legacy Giving Officer
legacies@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279217
If you have already included a gift in your will, would
like more information about making a legacy gift, or
would like to join the Taberdars’ Society, we would be
delighted to hear from you.
Daniel Kupiec-Ashton
Old Members’ Assistant
oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279217
Daniel assists with Old Member events and is the first
port of call for any general queries.
Sophie Elliott
Regular Giving Officer
sophie.elliott@queens.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 279225
Sophie is our Regular Giving Officer and is responsible
for the Queen’s Society, for those who make regular
gifts (monthly, quarterly or annually) to Queen’s. Do get
in touch if you would like to find out more.
Photo: Edmund Blok
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BENEFACTORS
We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of the College’s major benefactors who donated to Queen’s
in the Financial Year 2023-24 (1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024). 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 × 3
Mr Michael Boyd (1958) qs
Mr Mike Hawley (1959)
Dr Ray Bowden (1960) qs
Dr Robert Feinberg (1961) and
Mrs Betsy Feinberg
Mr Andrew Parsons (1962)
Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975) qs
Mr Paul Newton (1975)
Dr Mel Stephens (1976)
Mr Mark Williamson (1982) qs
Mr Jacky Wong (1986) qs
Mr Chris Eskdale (1987) and
Mrs Julia Eskdale
Mrs Nishi Grose (1998) qs
PHILIPPA BENEFACTORS
Anonymous × 2
Mr John Palmer (1949) qs
Dr Bill Parry (1955) qs
The Revd Canon
Hugh Wybrew (1955) qs
Mr Tim Evans (1956) qs
Mr Walter Gilges (1956)
Mr Barry Saunders (1956) qs
Mr Martin Bowley (1957) qs
Mr Keith Dawson (1957) qs
Mr Gordon Dilworth (1957) qs
Mr Charles Frieze (1957) qs
Dr Roger Lowman (1959) qs
Mr John Parsloe (1959)
Mr John Rix (1959) qs
Mr Michael Lodge (1960) qs
Mr John Price (1960)
Mr Martin Dillon (1961) qs
Mr Ron Glaister (1961) qs
Mr David Brownlee (1962)
Mr Philip Hetherington (1962)
Professor Peter Bell (1963)
Mr Raymond Kelly (1963)
Dr Clive Landa (1963)
Dr Dennis Luck (1963)
Mr William Marsterson (1963)
Dr Ken Morallee (1963)
Professor John Baines (1964) qs
District Judge Chris Beale (1964) qs
Professor Dr Rod Levick (1964) qs
Professor Lee Saperstein (1964) qs
Mr John Clement (1965) qs
Mr Derek Marsh (1965)
Dr Michael Collop (1966) qs
Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) qs
Mr Gregory Stone (1966)
Dr Juan Mason (1967) qs
Dr Bruce McLucas (1967)
Mr Paul Clark (1968)
Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) qs
Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) qs
Mr Jim Gibson (1969)
Mr David Seymour (1969) qs
Professor Hugh Arnold (1970) qs
Mr Richard Geldard (1972) qs
Mr Tom Ward (1973) qs
Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) qs
Mr Philip Middleton (1974)
Mr Stuart White (1975) qs
Mr Fred Arnold (1976) qs
Mr Mark Neale (1976) qs
Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) qs
Mr Terence Keyes (1977)
Mr Charlie Anderson (1978) qs
Mr Nick Beecroft (1978) qs
Dr Chris Ringrose (1979) qs
Mr Steve Crown (1980) qs
Mr John Ford (1980)
Mrs Diana Webster (1980) qs
Mr Donald Pepper (1981) qs
Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) qs
Mr Joseph Archie (1982)
Mr Alan Leigh (1982) qs
Mr John Turner (1984)
Mr Mark Ashton-Rigby (1986)
Mr Krispen Culbertson (1986)
Mr Bob Burgess (1987) qs
Mr John Stansfield (1987) qs
Mr Tim Wong (1987)
Mr John Bigham (1988) qs
Ms Sia Applin (1990) qs
Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) qs
Dr Christoph Rojahn (1991)
Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) qs
Mr Ian Brown (1993) qs
Mr Marc Kish (1993)
Mr Matthew Lawrence (1993) qs
Mrs Claudine Heron (1994)
Mr John Hull (1994) qs
Mr Nick Stebbing (1994) qs
Mrs Anna Hull (1995) qs
Mr Chris Woolf (1995) qs
Mr John Startin (1997)
Mr Dan Lynn (1999) qs
Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) qs
Dr Bernhard Langwallner (2007)
Mrs Jayne Saberton-Haynes qs
LEGACY GIFTS
The College is grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who gave legacy gifts to Queen’s:
Mr Harold Searle (1950)
Mr Trevor Beeforth (1956)
Mr Barrie Craythorn (1956)
Professor Bob Faulkner (1956)
Mr David Wilkinson (1957)
Mr Donald Rutherford (1962)
Mr Richard Shaw (1968)
Mrs Daphne Badcock
Ms Janet Lancaster
Mrs Maria Morris
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