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THANK YOU DONOR REPORT 2016-17 DONOR REPORT 2016-17 03 CONTENTS So Much More 4 A Job Worth Doing 5 Development and Alumni Relations 6 Giving Forward: Fairbairn Family Scholarships Programme 8 Regular Giving and Student Opportunities Fund 10 Jon Davidson Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement 12 A 21st-Century Learning Space in a Century-Old College 13 Opening of the New Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics 14 Alumnus Gives Record £5m for College 16 The Sweeting Fellowship: From Nuns on the Run to Monks in Motion 18 From History to Legend: Mary Thoits 19 Women In Tech: Scholarships for Women in Computer Science 20 Vann Fellowship 22 Choosing Where to Give 24 Zurbarán Centre For Spanish and Latin American Art 26 Zeno Karl Schindler and Barker Priory Library Fellows 27 Gifts of Enduring Significance 28 Chancellor’s Circle Members’ Dinner 30 For a full list of donors in 2016-17 visit www.dunelm.org.uk/donorroll DONOR REPORT 2016-17 SO MUCH MORE Durham is one of the world’s • Our wider student experience, I believe that the accrued great universities and one of the which will help to develop future investment from both the University most distinctive. The University generations of leaders and and donors will transform our is strong academically in both citizens. University and be on a scale that Durham has not seen before. research and education, but we Sustained investment in our people are so much more than a standard and in our estate and infrastructure As we prepare for the challenges Top 100 University. Through our is critical, to ensure that we keep and opportunities of the 21st colleges, Durham Students’ Union pace with the growing number of century, we are appreciative of the and Experience Durham, we offer well-funded universities around momentum that we are generating a wider student experience as the world. We are therefore in philanthropic support and I good as any in the world. And committing several hundred thank all of our benefactors most million pounds in the next decade sincerely. Your support will enable there is So Much More that we towards our goals from our own us to continue to celebrate our can still do. funds and with investment from unique heritage and build on To achieve everything we are commercial partners. To augment our reputation for excellence in capable of, we need to make this investment, we are seeking to teaching, research and the wider substantial investments in all combine this with gifts and pledges student experience – making new from alumni and other stakeholders, scientific discoveries, contributing three of our Strategic Goals: including foundations and trusts to the cultural life of our region • Our research, so that we can who share our values and our and nurturing a generation of change the world for the better; passion to make a difference in the exceptional student leaders so they world. It is immensely encouraging can enter the highest levels of their • Our education, so that an that philanthropy to the University chosen professions. ever- wider range of students is growing and I am sincerely can study at Durham and grateful for the support and Professor Stuart Corbridge transform their future; contributions we have achieved. Vice-Chancellor and Warden 05 A JOB WORTH DOING Ample evidence suggests that we are making great strides in increasing our engagement with our alumni and other stakeholders and in attracting philanthropy to Durham. This is borne out by the steady progress that we have made over the last few years in the Development and Alumni Relations Office here at our wonderful University. In particular, we are enormously grateful to our benefactors, large and small, organisations and individuals, local and international, who have made this year our best fundraising year ever, both in attracting our largest single gift and in the £10m ceiling for cash receipted in any year. This is the first time that we have passed these two milestones and it augurs well for the future. with limited means; dreams of ways in which you have changed providing facilities to enhance the Durham for the better, but we Fundraising has been described by wider student experience; dreams hope it will give you a sense of the one Vice-Chancellor as the hardest of rewarding those who have done range and scope of activity. work he had ever done, but, equally, the best they can, while pursuing some of the most rewarding. There significant research; and dreams I end by thanking the Vice- is no doubt that the art and science of expanding our international Chancellor for his committed of fundraising keeps one thinking reputation. support to philanthropy (both on one’s toes, constantly adapting by his own generous giving and to the circumstances and remaining Mercifully, my office has the task his leadership in this area of especially resilient. By the same of making these dreams come endeavour) and all the other senior token, however, the rewards are true and we are truly blessed to colleagues who have helped to palpable, in that the proceeds of be given this assignment. How make this year so successful. one’s efforts are all directed to cheering to do both well and to do Finally, to my own immediate helping others achieve their dreams. good. It is a job worth doing. We staff, sincere appreciation for your couldn’t have done this without sterling contributions in helping Universities have dreams too. your support, and this Donor make success of a job worth doing. Dreams of enhancing opportunities Report is a tribute to all of you to discover solutions to global who have supported us over the Bruno van Dyk challenges; dreams of improving year. Perforce it can only provide Director, Development and access for those with talent, but a summary of all of the many Alumni Relations DONOR REPORT 2016-17 DEVELOPMENT OFFICES AND CONTACTS AND ALUMNI Development forms an integral and essential part of the RELATIONS Development and Alumni Relations Office at Durham. The two components, development and alumni relations, complement, AT DURHAM aid and encourage each other in achieving Durham University’s UNIVERSITY strategic development objectives. DARO is assisted in its activities by the development and alumni VISION relations endeavours in the 16 colleges of the University and To lead alumni engagement and philanthropic by Experience Durham, the office that coordinates University giving in support of Durham University sport, staff and student volunteering and outreach, and – in becoming world-leading in research, education partnership with Durham Students Union – student theatre and and the wider student experience. music. In addition, there are three volunteer boards based in London, the United States and Hong Kong, which support and MISSION assist DARO activities, and over 80 volunteers across the world Our mission is to engage with and harness who work with us to realise our mission. the goodwill of our alumni, volunteers, friends and partners in order to advance the development aspirations of the University. HEAD OFFICE DUNELM USA We achieve this by securing bequests, endowments, philanthropic grants and gifts Bruno van Dyk, Director Smiti Kumar, President that further the University’s goals, satisfy the Development and Alumni Relations E: [email protected] objectives of our partners and benefactors, The Palatine Centre, Stockton Road and respond to societal, economic and Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom ASIA-PACIFIC technological challenges. In so doing, the T: +44 (0) 191 334 6239 DEVELOPMENT BOARD Development and Alumni Relations Office E: [email protected] James Riley, Chairman (DARO) strives towards making Durham E: [email protected] world-leading in research, education and COLLEGES the wider student experience. For contacts in colleges, DUNELM SOCIETY (LONDON) please get in touch via CORE PURPOSE Graham Barker, Chairman David Williams, E: [email protected] DARO is the official development and Head of Alumni and Supporter alumni relations office of Durham Engagement NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT University, dedicated to advancing the Development and Alumni Relations BOARD goals of Durham by garnering philanthropic The Palatine Centre, Stockton Road grants, donations and legacy gifts from Zoe Scheinman, Chair Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom alumni, stakeholders and other partners E: [email protected] T: +44 (0) 191 334 6319 from within the United Kingdom and E: [email protected] abroad. The core task of DARO is to engage with alumni, friends and partners on the EXPERIENCE DURHAM one hand and to promote and seek external resources for the development of the Quentin Sloper, University, on the other. This may be for the Director of Experience Durham establishment of new research centres, new Experience Durham physical infrastructure, new chairs, new or Graham Sports Centre existing scholarship and bursary schemes, Maiden Castle new or existing curricula and academic Durham DH1 3SE United Kingdom programmes, new or existing internal and T: +44 (0) 191 334 2178 external service provision, and any other E: [email protected] initiatives that serve to build and strengthen the University and assist it to make its alumni proud and meet its strategic goals. 07 DEVELOPMENT AND INCOME AND ALUMNI RELATIONS PLEDGES OFFICE STAFF 2016-17 2016-17 Bruno van Dyk, Director TOTAL GIFTS AND PLEDGES: Lyndsey McCormick, Personal Assistant to the Director ALUMNI AND SUPPORTER ENGAGEMENT £14,607,985 David Williams, Head of Alumni and Supporter Engagement Charlotte Kerr, Alumni Relations Officer Deborah
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