# Queen Mary, University of London joins the thankQ University elite

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/02/19/queen-mary-university-london-joins-thankq-university-elite/
- Published: 2013-02-19T12:35:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Queen Mary delivers world class degree programmes and research across 21 academic
departments and institutes. In recognition of the university’s success to date, 
Queen Mary was recently invited to join the prestigious Russell Group of universities,
cementing its status amongst the higher education elite.

 

To ensure Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) optimises its position within 
the Russell Group, ambitious investment plans have been put in place to further 
develop educational, research and estate capabilities, along with the development
of a sophisticated alumni and stakeholder network, including comprehensive records
and a programme of activities to maintain and nurture contacts, including details
of over 120,000 alumni.

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QMUL has recently established a Development Directorate which will incorporate Alumni
Relations and Fundraising teams. To date there has been no single data-set where
donation and supporter information can be accessed and so the university has also
selected thankQ [CRM and alumni software](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/01/16/top-10-crms-charities-nonprofits/)
to bring coherence to its development operations.

 

thankQ’s ease of use was a major contributing factor to the purchasing decision.
In choosing thankQ, QMUL recognised the urgent need to provide the development team
with easy access to information required to plan, manage and achieve their strategic
objectives, as well as putting a system in place that would keep pace with the ongoing
development and increased sophistication of its  fundraising activities.

 

To this end, Queen Mary took the opportunity to not only purchase a comprehensive
thankQ CRM, fundraising and alumni relations system, but also enhanced features 
and modules that will facilitate and integrate web, telethon, social media, bulk
email and mobile campaigns with the thankQ database.

 

Andy Wood, Director of Development at Queen Mary said of the decision to purchase
thankQ, ‘We are looking forward to joining a number of other UK universities as 
a thankQ client. Their solution, aside from the technical excellence and value of
the product, will quickly allow us to better utilise our data in support of our 
strategic objectives in both fundraising and alumni/stakeholder engagement. I’m 
pleased to say that the decision to select thankQ was a unanimous one.’

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