University of Nottingham campaign over halfway to £150m target in one year
Howard Lake | 1 November 2012 | News
The University of Nottingham’s largest fundraising campaign has already passed the halfway mark just one year from its launch.
The public phase of the five-year The Nottingham Campaign was launched in October 2011 with the aim of raising £150 million. This would support ‘The Nottingham Experience’, health and well-being, nurturing talent, ingenuity and sustainable futures. So far the campaign was raised £81 million.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, said: “This is an incredible start and I want to thank everyone who continues to support us either financially or in-kind. We have reached this point with some very significant corporate commitments, such as the recent gift from GlaxoSmithKline as well as major gifts from alumni like Campaign Co-Chair, David Ross (Law 1987).
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“But I am also very grateful to the many alumni who make a financial commitment to the University every month. Regular gifts from our alumni and friends maintain a long-standing tradition which goes way back to the time when we relocated from the city to our wonderful University Park Campus back in 1928.”
University staff have contributed, with more than 400 signing up to donate via payroll giving. More than 130 of the University’s student telephone fundraisers have also donated an hour of their pay to help provide scholarships and bursaries for future Nottingham students.
The campaign is expanding globally, with the University establishing two charitable foundations to support the work of the China and Malaysia campuses.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/impactcampaign
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.