Celebrating philanthropy and volunteering at the University of Exeter
2018 was a truly exceptional year for Exeter.
Thanks to your commitment and generosity we have made great strides in our ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign.
In February we passed our target for volunteering hours two and a half years early – a staggering 60,000 hours given by you to support our students, our staff and our alumni. In the last year alone, nearly 1,000 of you donated more than 11,000 hours of your time to help us do even more.
Over 3,200 of you chose to support the University financially, resulting in the most successful year for philanthropy in the University’s history with more than £15 million in contributions.
Your support is vital for Exeter’s continuing success, and we appreciate every single one of you and what you bring to our community.
A £10 million donation from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation will fund a brand new imaging centre at the University to transform dementia research and diagnosis.
Thank you to each and every one of our wonderful volunteers who generously offered their time, skills and experience since the start of our Making the Exceptional Happen Campaign.
In celebration of all of our amazing volunteers, and to say thank you to those exceptional individuals who do so much to support us all, we launched our inaugural ‘University of Exeter Alumni Volunteer Awards’.
Thanks to funding from the Halpin Trust, research at the University will improve early diagnosis of dementia and reduce pressure on health services.
When local resident Anne Van Geyzel passed away in February 2017, she left a gift of £1,000 to support the maintenance of the University grounds. Thanks to this legacy, 25 new trees have now been planted at Birks Grange.
The University is the custodian of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, the UK’s foremost museum of moving image history. During the year Exeter benefited from a further donation of £180,000 from one of its founders, Peter Jewell.
A seminar room has been named after alumnus Steve Edge (Law, 1972) honouring his commitment and generosity to Exeter.
The Exeter experience goes beyond studying and our Alumni Annual Fund supports the extra-curricular activities that make our University such a fantastic place to be.
Thanks to support from alumnus Phil Drury (Politics, 1994) and his wife Megan, three top rugby players have been able to attend Exeter with sports scholarships to develop their skills.
The Exeter Scholars programme gives academically able students from under represented groups the opportunity to progress to higher education.