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368-Donar-Exchange Q7.AW:Layout 1 26/1/09 06:55 Page 2 donor exchange A magazine for supporters, friends and alumni Issue 1 2009 South African schools project Life changing experiences for South African children and Nottingham’s student teachers, thanks to the Annual Fund 368-Donar-Exchange Q7.AW:Layout 1 28/1/09 15:17 Page 3 Contents 01 || News Your support 04 || Thank you for giving to Nottingham 05 || Annual Fund Grant Awards makes a difference 09 || Double Your Impact Professor David Greenaway took up the office of Vice-Chancellor 10 || Donor focus of The University of Nottingham on October 1st 2008, succeeding Professor Sir Colin Campbell. 12 || Donor list “In my close association with Nottingham over the last 20 years I have always greatly admired the part played in the University’s life by the vast numbers of friends, supporters and, of course, our alumni community. “I believe this body of people is fundamentally important to the future development and prosperity of our University. Our friends and supporters here in the UK and all over the world, are helping transform and enrich the lives of our current students on a daily basis. Contact Details As I have said on many occasions, one of The Development Office the markers of a great university is the The University of Nottingham quality of its alumni. We have a very large King’s Meadow Campus community of successful alumni, playing Nottingham leading roles in education, business and the NG7 2NR public sector, and of course, it is a genuinely T: +44 (0) 115 951 3687 multinational community. F: +44 (0) 115 951 3691 W: www.nottingham.ac.uk/development “Our friends, supporters and alumni Rebecca Day contribute a lot to this University. Many Stewardship Officer do so philanthropically and that has helped The University of Nottingham us offer more scholarships, enrich our King’s Meadow Campus infrastructure and environment and support Nottingham world-changing research. They are also an NG7 2NR invaluable source of advice and enthusiastic T: +44 (0) 115 951 3689 advocates for what we stand for. F: +44 (0) 115 951 3691 “We are in a fiercely competitive environment W: www.nottingham.ac.uk/development and, given the rapidly changing economic E: [email protected] University to advance the quality of context, we will have to work hard to teaching, research and internationalisation generate the resources needed to invest in that makes Nottingham such a distinctive Issue 1 copyright our future. We are planning a major Campaign community, is genuinely invigorating and The University of Nottingham for Nottingham as one element of our future I am thoroughly enjoying the challenge. Exchange – a magazine for supporters, strategy and I hope our alumni and friends friends and alumni of The University of will support what we are striving to achieve. “I have already had a chance to meet up Nottingham. The views expressed are not with some of you at recent reunions and “I myself have a great legacy to build on. necessarily those of the editor, supporters, special events around the country and Being appointed to lead this innovative friends and alumni of The University internationally where I have shared with and enterprising institution is a great honour. of Nottingham you my vision for the University. I look Editor: Rebecca Day “The prospect of working with so many forward to meeting up with many more Writing: Simon Harvey talented colleagues from across the of you in the months and years ahead.” 368-Donar-Exchange Q7.AW:Layout 1 26/1/09 06:56 Page 4 NEWS | 01 Thank you The University of Nottingham received a total of £6.1 million in 2008 in support from donors, friends and alumni. Recorded gifts were up by 20% on the previous year – a vital contribution to Nottingham’s ongoing development. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute, it is greatly appreciated. It is only with this support that important projects, such as those featured on these pages, can continue to be realised. Sources of Support Donors FY 2007/08 Alumni 1906 £270,481 Non-Alumni 236 £1,243,459 Bequests (Realised) 7 £73,695 Corporate 104 £711,246 Feeling peaky after climbing challenge Trusts 31 £3,804,831 Richard Bailey took some friends on one of Richard and his wife Susie’s world was the most exhausting climbing challenges in turned upside down when their daughter Total Philanthropic Cash Received £6,103,712 the UK – just to give something back to the Tilly arrived 10 weeks ahead of schedule. people who cared for his newborn daughter. Tilly was 3lb at birth and required respiratory, temperature control and feeding assistance Richard (third from left) and his group raised during the next six weeks before she was Uses of Support £4,629 by attempting and completing The allowed to go home from Nottingham Three Peaks Challenge scaling the highest Academic Posts £579,401 City Hospital. peaks in England, Scotland and Wales in just Capital £906,564 48 hours. The money raised was donated That was a year ago and Tilly is now a Library Resources £698,430 towards The University of Nottingham MRI healthy, 17lbs 12oz. Neonatal Research which enables state-of-the- Research £3,407,730 “I knew we wouldn’t come close to raising art investigation for babies who need it most. Scholarships and the £1.3 million required but I wanted to other student support £390,887 The University has long been at the centre put something back into the system that of development in MRI techniques; Sir Peter gave my daughter help when she required Unfettered £120,701 Mansfield received the Nobel Prize for it,” said Richard. “It was a tough challenge Total Philanthropic Medicine in 2003. but a fantastic experience for a great cause.” Cash Received £6,103,712 Nottingham in top trio for all round excellence If you would like to find out more about Nottingham’s current development The University of Nottingham has once The University is also ranked in the Top 10 priorities or how to make a donation again been ranked by The Sunday Times for sport, and its graduates command some please contact: Good University Guide within British higher of the highest available starting salaries Ian Gardner education's most outstanding teaching and when they begin their careers. research universities. Thirty three academic Deputy Development Director Above all, Nottingham is praised for its two schools and departments at Nottingham are E: [email protected] most distinctive features – an outstanding T: +44 (0) 115 951 3726 rated 'excellent' — an achievement matched campus environment and first class only by Cambridge University and The facilities, and its profile as a truly global University of Manchester. University, with opportunities to study high Nottingham students are also amongst the quality degrees on cosmopolitan campuses most likely to complete their courses, with in the United Kingdom, Malaysia and The one of the lowest 'drop out' rates in the UK. People's Republic of China. 368-Donar-Exchange Q7.AW:Layout 1 26/1/09 06:57 Page 5 02 | NEWS Fight against superbugs intensifies Hospital superbugs such as MRSA and A message from Leslie Ash: Clostridium difficile (C. diff) are killing “Stopping HAI’s, finding treatments thousands of people and destroying for HAI’s and finding funding for the families’ lives. research for the prevention of HAI’s But with your help, a national research are all vital – I can’t stress this enough! centre at The University of Nottingham, “I am proud to be the patron of CHAI. housing some of the UK’s leading experts I was one of the unfortunate ones to contract in the field, is taking the fight against the the MSSA infection, a hospital associated superbugs to the next level. infection and it changed my life. It’s taken The Centre for Healthcare Associated four long years and a lot of support from Infections (CHAI), was launched in 2007 those I love to regain any sort of normality. by the actress Leslie Ash, who was left At CHAI they are working so hard to stop virtually paralysed after contracting MSSA, anyone else’s lives being effected by these a strain related to MRSA, while receiving deadly bugs.” treatment in a London hospital. Her near- death experience has led her to campaign about the illness and the hygiene measures Aspire reaches for sky needed to prevent its spread. Over the past decade, almost 37,000 Nottingham’s skyline has been transformed people have died after contracting one of with the installation of Aspire, Britain’s these two devastating infections. At CHAI, tallest free standing public work of art. leading experts from nine different schools The Aspire tower at The University of at the University are working hard to Nottingham stands 60 metres tall –higher better understand hospital and community than the Angel of the North and taller than superbugs and how we can stop them. Nelson’s Column and the Statue of Liberty. Currently, there is no national charity The cost of design, manufacture and that funds research into these major killers, installation of Aspire, which amounts to so your donations are crucial in helping £800,000, has been funded through the our scientists expand and speed up their great generosity of a philanthropist who vital research. prefers to remain anonymous – but who www.hcai.nottingham.ac.uk wished to create an emblem which will make people think about their ambitions and where they aim to go in life. At the launch, the then Vice-Chancellor, Sir Colin joins ‘a very special community’ Professor Sir Colin Campbell, said: "This is The University has paid tribute to its an Honorary Freeman of the City of a unique addition to the city’s skyline and distinguished former Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham, becoming the city’s 36th it’s intended not just to celebrate the Professor Sir Colin Campbell, with a Honorary Freeman since William Booth, university but to capture the aspirations landmark new building named in his the founder of the Salvation Army, became of Nottingham city itself.