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Providing the best experience for our students today, and for the future
Gifts from alumni and friends of Churchill College help us support students and safeguard the future of the College as a place to learn and thrive.
While we manage our finances prudently (and you can read more about our accounts if you wish), we rely on your generosity to provide the additional funds and opportunities that benefit so many of our students.
You can give us a gift to use in the area of most need, or you can select a particular project or fund you want to support.
Registered Charity Number: 1137476
While the education provided by College is funded partly by government fees, the funding gap must be funded by the College from its endowment or other income streams. Gifts from donors help us offer bursaries and studentships, support for students, and develop facilities.
Student Support Funds
Donating to our Student Support funds benefits students who are in need. Churchill College prides itself on the support it provides to its students, but with demand ever increasing we rely on your help to make sure our standards and provision remain high.
Students can apply for or be recommended by tutors to receive funding.
The Student Wellbeing & Mental Health Fund
This dedicated fund is to support and maintain the wellbeing and mental health of our students.
The Black Students’ Support Fund
Supporting UK students of Black African and African-Caribbean heritage by providing means-tested bursaries for undergraduates, as part of the Cambridge Bursary scheme, or an MPhil Studentship. Together with the work of our widening participation team, this supports our work to redress the historic under-representation of Black British students at the University of Cambridge and Churchill College.
Student Support Fund
Hardship bursaries are awarded to both undergraduates and graduates where unexpected and urgent financial need has suddenly emerged.
Winston Churchill Top-Up Bursary Fund
Ensuring students in the greatest financial need continue to flourish.
Snehal Sidhu Patrick Memorial Fund
A fund expanding opportunities for international disabled students.
Studentships and bursaries
Studentships and bursaries help postgraduate and undergraduate students benefit from a university experience that may not otherwise be possible for them.
Class Gift Bursaries
Class Gift Bursaries are named after particular alumni year groups. The aim for each Class Gift is to raise £100,000 which will endow a full Cambridge Bursary for one student. The Cambridge Bursaries are means-tested and for UK registered students.
The Stuart Warren Studentship Fund
Fund a postgraduate student from the Southern African development region.
Tizard Fund
Facilitating scholarship, bursaries and grants to enable students to investigate, research and implement new and radical ideas.
Palestinian Studentship Fund
Supporting a one year postgraduate course to develop an individual’s expertise in helping improve future governance and economic development in Palestine.
Subject-Specific and Extra-Curricular Support Funds
Studentships and bursaries help postgraduate and undergraduate students benefit from a university experience that may not otherwise be possible for them.
Alex Hopkins Fund (Chemistry)
Supporting the award of one or more prizes for outstanding overall achievement in the final Tripos examination in Chemistry and the annual ‘Alex Hopkins Lecture’.
The Alison Finch and Andrew Webber Fund for Modern Languages
Funding a Vacation Study Fund for MML students to take a course at a language school.
John Antcliffe Memorial Fund
Sponsored By-fellowship for a project concerned with the political, economic or social history.
David Stokes Memorial Fund
The Stokes Bursary Fund is used to provide financial support to current and future Churchill law students.
Medical and Veterinary Fund
Supporting the study of medicine and veterinary medicine in Churchill College and the welfare of students studying these subjects.
Syred Music Fund
Financial assistance for recent alumni and current students of the College seeking further musical training, development, or other musical opportunities
Frank Hahn Fellowship in Economics
The Hahn Junior Research Fellowship aims to support the brightest and best in their study and teaching of Economics.
The Barnaby Levy Memorial Travel Grant Fund
The Barnaby Levy Memorial Travel Grant will award a student travel grant of up to £500 for travel to be undertaken during the long vacation. Preference will be given to applicants who would not otherwise have the financial means to take the proposed trip.
Endowment and facilities
The essence of our mission is to bring the best students here and the best researchers, to make a difference to people’s lives and to go from Cambridge to help to transform the world. Our endowment helps make our future more secure, and our facilities funds make sure we are reading for that future.
Think Forward Campaign
Think Forward Fund is an unrestricted fund where surplus income is invested to add to the endowment of the College, making our future more secure and less subject to circumstance, which as we have seen with Covid-19 can greatly affect our income streams in other areas.
Graduate Studentship Endowment Fund
Building a Graduate Studentship Endowment Fund that will help bridge the growing funding gap and enable more talented students to take up their postgraduate studies.
Annual Fund
An unrestricted fund that directly helps Churchill students. It has been used to provide additional academic support, to fund clubs and societies, to support refurbishing accommodation and improving IT facilities.
Take a Seat
For a donation of £500, you can help the College fund the replacement of a chair and incorporate a dedication of your choice.
The Bill Brown Creative Workshops
A platform geared towards bridging academic disciplines and forging new collaborations, bringing students of all disciplines, undergraduates and postgraduates, together.
Chapel Conservation appeal
Funding essential conservation repairs, including maintaining the historically significant John Piper stained glass.
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Legacies need not be large to make a difference.
We appreciate each and every donation from our supporters.
There are many ways to give, from a one-off donation, to recurring gifts or legacies