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DONOR REPORT 2014-20151 THANK YOU from the PRINCIPAL We Also Cannot Afford to Stand Still DONOR REPORT 2014-20151 THANK YOU FROM THE PRINCIPAL We also cannot afford to stand still. International competition for the best students and the best academics continues to grow. If the College and the University are to remain world leading we need to be able to attract the best talent and continue to improve our offer to them. As we start to develop the College’s new five-year strategic plan, there are lots of questions to ask ourselves. How can we bring more innovation to what we do? How can we ensure that we reach out to and then support students of greatest potential, wherever they might be? What facilities will best support our students in the future? How can we prepare our students better for life beyond Oxford? How can we accommodate new subjects and areas of knowledge as they emerge? We want to be able to maintain the best of Jesus College while also striving to make the College a world-leading centre of research and education that is ready for the challenges of the future. We also know that we cannot do this without the continued generosity of the College’s alumni and friends. Arriving this year as the new Principal, I have been The support raised in 2014/15 has had a remarkable heartened and impressed by the level of support that the impact on the College, its Fellows and students, as I hope College receives from its alumni and friends. This donor this report illustrates. report, for 2014/15, is the College’s way of keeping all of our supporters informed about what has been achieved I would like to thank everyone who has contributed in and also a way of showing our appreciation and saying the last financial year, and I look forward to meeting many thank you to those supporters. of you in due course to thank you in person. This support is fundamentally important. In a time Yours of financial uncertainty, cuts and reduced funding for students, it is essential that we take action to ensure that the College is resilient in the face of current and future challenges and is able to protect the values and standards which Jesus College is so proud to enshrine. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Principal 2 COLLEGE PERFORMANCE AND FINANCES IN 2014/15 Activities and Achievements The College continues to Over the last twelve months the achievements of the provide financial support College’s academic staff have been recognised by the to students from low award of a number of prestigious honours: income backgrounds • Professor Patricia Clavin was awarded the British both through the Academy Medal for her book, Securing the World collegiate University’s Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations Bursary Scheme and 1920-1940, and was awarded a Leverhulme Trust through its own Access Major Research Fellowship; Bursaries. In addition, • Professor Marion Turner was awarded a British we continue to support Academy Mid-Career Fellowship; undergraduate and • Professor Tim Palmer was awarded a CBE and elected graduate students in their Stuart Woodward, Estates Bursar to the American Philosophical Society; studies by the provision of grants to cover, inter alia, the purchase of books, travel • Dr Eirik Bjorge (Shaw Foundation JRF in Law) was and research expenses. The College rewards academic awarded the Gold Medal of the King of Norway; excellence by means of scholarships, exhibitions and • Dr Jen Perry (Guy Newton JRF in Biosciences) won prizes. The College is particularly aware of the difficulties the Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding many people aspiring to undertake graduate studies face Contributions by a New Investigator 2015, awarded by obtaining financial support and has therefore increased the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour; its efforts to collaborate with the University to provide • Professor Peter Mirfield was admitted as an Honorary graduate scholarships. Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. The College continues to place great importance on There have been many notable publications authored by attracting applications from potential students from all College Fellows in the past year. For example: backgrounds. We have now had our first Access and • Dr Susan Doran (SRF in History) ‘Elizabeth I and her Career Development Fellow in post for a year. Dr Beth Circle’; Mortimer organised events including a resident event • Dr Dennis Duncan (JRF in English) ‘Theory of the for pupils from Pembrokeshire, a Law Taster Day and Great Game: Writings from Le Jeu’; a Women in Science Taster Day. Excluding Open Days • Professor Pamela Sammons (SRF in Education) ‘The and Taster Days, over 400 pupils visited the College via Routledge International Handbook of Education school visits. Dr Mortimer had contact with just under Effectiveness and Improvement: Research, policy, and 900 pupils via visits away from the College to schools practice’. (excluding Higher Education Fairs), with a particular focus on schools in Wales under the new Seren Hubs set up The College’s students have also received recognition in a by the Welsh Assembly. Via Dr Mortimer, the College number of fields. For example: engaged with 31 schools that had not had contact with • Richard Elliott (DPhil in Politics) won a parliamentary the College in the previous five or more years. constitution preamble competition; 31% of our students were awarded a first-class degree. • Ffion Williams (MSt in Celtic Studies) won the Drama In the 2014 Student Barometer survey, Jesus College was Medal at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Caerphilly; ranked the top Oxford college for overall satisfaction • Joseph Hone (DPhil in English) received press attention over the five-year period from 2010-2014. Three of after finding a manuscript revealing that Sir Isaac our Fellows were awarded Oxford University Student Newton had designed a medal for Queen Anne’s Union Teaching Awards: Professor Edward Anderson coronation in 1702; for Outstanding Tutor in MPLS; Professor Patricia Daley • Anna East (BA in Geography) was awarded a large for Outstanding Supervisor in Social Sciences; Professor travel scholarship by the Royal Geographical Society to Timothy Coulson for Outstanding Supervisor in MPLS. study the role of deep water coral reefs in Honduras. 3 The College continues to invest in the repair and on Ship Street, increasingly popular with our graduate upgrading of its property and infrastructure. Towards students, have been refurbished, with the remaining the end of the year, extensive repairs to, and decoration rooms scheduled to be upgraded next summer. We of, the First Quad and Principal’s Lodging commenced, finally found a cost-effective solution to the problem of including the overhaul of roof coverings and defective providing wheelchair access to the Hall that is compatible stone work. Boilers have been replaced as part of an with the historic buildings. Lifts that are set into the stone ongoing programme of improvements; and doors have paving when not in use have now been installed in both been installed to the staircases in the Second Quad. First and Second Quads. This, combined with creating a ramp outside the main entrance on Turl Street, has The College has continued its recent policy of investing significantly improved access to our main site. significant sums in its infrastructure. Many of the houses Financial Review The Statement of Financial Activities shows net incoming resources of £4.3m after transfers (2014: £4.2m), although INCOME FROM 31/7/15 31/7/14 this figure includes legacies and donations of £4.26m CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES £’000 £’000 (2014: £3.9m) most of which have been designated to Teaching and Research the endowment. The net unrestricted income was £23k Tuition fees – UK and EU students 1,454 1,386 (2014: £555k). Last year’s results include proceeds from Tuition fees – Overseas students 554 547 the sale of one of our properties for £348k. Other HEFCE support 339 322 Income Other academic income 144 172 College residential income 3,325 2,987 Tuition fee income from UK and EU students, £1.45m, is up slightly on last year, £1.39m, reflecting the new tuition Total 5,816 5,414 fee regime. Fee income from overseas students was also Investment Income up marginally at £554k (2014: £547k). Total tuition and Agricultural rent 514 528 research income, excluding residential income, has risen Commercial rent 3,366 3,343 by £64k, or 2.6%. Other property income 58 54 Residential income primarily comprises income received Equity dividends 1,482 1,359 from College members and charitable conferences. Income from fixed interest stocks 74 78 Residential income from College members increased Interest on fixed term deposits and cash 61 42 slightly this year from £2.14m to £2.25m. Conference Total 5,555 5,404 <1% INCOME <1% Voluntary income 5% Non-charitable trading income 546 505 5% Legacies and donations 4,259 3,912 4% 26% Other trading income 3 3 9% 36% Total 4,808 4,420 <1% Miscellaneous Chapel offerings 1 2 4% Bank interest 1 1 Total 2 3 77% 34% Total Income Resource £16,181 £15,241 4 and Function income increased to £1.6m (2014: £1.4m), contributions to College’s ability to support its teaching reflecting the College’s determination to use its assets and research activities and to enhance the opportunities, as fully as possible out of term in support of its core sporting and cultural as well as educational, of its educational activities. members. It is thanks to their generosity that the headline figure on the Statement of Financial Activities looks so Donation income reached a record high of £4.3m this encouraging, but it has to be remembered that most year, representing a 9% increase on last year and a donations go into the College’s endowment funds and compound annual growth rate of 25.5% over the past it is only the income from this which is available to be 5 years.
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