Making the Exceptional Happen
'Making the Exceptional Happen' is our most ambitious fundraising campaign, aiming to raise £60 million in philanthropic income and 60,000 volunteering hours from 6,000 volunteers by December 2020. Will you help us get there?
The University of Exeter’s fundraising campaign, ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ has exceeded £50 million of philanthropic donations, taking the total to nearly 84% of target with less than two years to go.
£1 million has been donated to create the new role of “Dragon Capital Chair in Biodiversity Economics"
A new, state-of-the-art genome sequencing platform will significantly upgrade Exeter’s research into the genomic basis of health and disease.
Three Mireille Gillings Professorial Fellows in Health Innovation have been funded thanks to a £10 million donation from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation.
Critical research at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR) is to expand thanks to further investment from the John Oldacre Foundation.
University of Exeter alumni have donated 75,000 hours to the institution’s ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign since it began in 2012.