Successfully Funded Projects

2005-6

History Fellowships Campaign achieves its target

At the end of 2002, Balliol embarked on an ambitious campaign to endow its four Fellowships in History. The goal was to raise £2.5 million – to add to the College's existing endowment funds for History of £1.5 million – thus making a total sum of £4 million. Thanks to the generosity of Old Members and other friends, we passed the target of £2.5 million in 2006. This means that the four History Fellowships are now permanently secure. Read the article in full. [[ All links to FloDo articles except pre-1999; 2000-1 Law and Oliber Smithies]]

Major fund for Fellowships created in honour of Bill Coolidge

The College received a very generous benefaction from Kitty and John Lastavica to endow a major new fund at Balliol in honour of the late W A Coolidge (1924). The income from the Coolidge Tutorial Endowment Fund will be used by the College each year to support individual Fellowships where there is a particular financial need. Read the article in full.

Annual Fund passes £3 million mark

Since its launch at the end of 1999, over £3 million has been raised for the Annual Fund, and over 35% of alumni have contributed at least once. The importance of the Annual Fund at Balliol continues to grow, and donations are warmly received. Read the article in full.

2004-5

Student housing increased at Jowett Walk

Balliol is now able to house over 10% more of its students as a result of an impressive extension to the Jowett Walk complex completed in October 2004. Two new accommodation blocks were added to the existing group of three towers, providing a total of 47 additional study bedrooms. One of the new blocks also includes a specially created suite of rooms for students with mobility impairments. There is a seminar room called the Wolfson Room in honour of a generous benefaction from the Wolfson Foundation. Read the article in full.

Second Marvin Bower Scholarship established

Jon Moynihan (1967), Deepak Ramachandran (1992), David Benello (1973) and other contributors have permanently endowed a second Marvin Bower Scholarship at Balliol. The original Scholarship was for graduate students at Balliol working in the fields of Management Studies, International Economics, or International Relations and – with the advent of this second Scholarship – the subject of Mathematics has now been added to the list. Read the article in full.

2003-4

Major scholarship fund established in memory of John T Hamilton 1933-2002

The College received a most generous bequest from the late Lt Colonel John Thomas Hamilton (1955). This gift is to be used to establish scholarships in his name to be used, as he expressed in his Will, ‘to advance education in mathematics (including applied mathematics) or physics (with an emphasis on theoretical physics)'. Read the article in full.

Student support fund created

The Smart Family Foundation made a further generous grant to Balliol, this time to create an endowment fund providing flexible support for Balliol's graduate and undergraduate students. The Foundation first helped the College in 2000, when it made a grant to establish the David Brink Fund – to support undergraduates and graduates studying Physics, including in combination with other subjects – named in honour of David Brink FRS, Emeritus Fellow of the College, who was a Tutor in Physics from 1958 to 1993. The Foundation's new grant enables Balliol to provide a package of financial help for students in need. The fund is known as the Alfred Douglas Stone Fund. Read the article in full.

Gift in memory of Mark Sadler (1963)

The family of Mark Sadler, who died in 2002, made a generous gift to Balliol from his Estate to establish a permanent fund in his memory, providing support for graduate and undergraduate students. Read the article in full.

2002-3

Eddie Dinshaw Scholarship

In 1999, the Eddie Dinshaw Foundation generously established a permanent scholarship for Indian students to study at Balliol. As the first holder of the scholarship, Asim Mahmood, approached the end of his time studying at Balliol, we looked at the establishment of this important award. Read the article in full.

2001-2

The Foley-Béjar Scholarship Fund

The College is very grateful to Martin Foley (1951) for generously establishing a major endowment fund at Balliol, known as the Foley-Béjar Scholarship Fund. The purpose of the new fund is to help students from Ireland, Spain and Mexico with their studies by providing scholarships and hardship grants to those who are eligible. Read the full article about this new fund.

The Georgina Horlick Childcare Bursaries

Nicola Horlick (1979), one of the City's best-known fund managers, has made a generous gift to create two Childcare Bursaries at Balliol's Nursery for an initial period of four years. These will be named in honour of Georgina Horlick, one of Nicola Horlick's six children and her eldest daughter, who died aged twelve in November 1998. Read the full article about this, and the subsequent article about further support for the Bursaries.

2000-1

The Law Fellowship Appeal reaches its goal

July 2001 saw the fulfilment of a major project, to raise £450,000 to complete the endowment of Balliol's second Law Fellowship, currently held by Dr Grant Lamond. Read the full report about the Law Fellowship Appeal.

New fund helps Physics students at Balliol

A generous contribution from the Smart Family Foundation in the USA has enabled Balliol to establish the David Brink Fund. The income from this permanently endowed fund will be used to make grants to individual Physics students at Balliol, including those reading Physics and Philosophy. The David Brink Fund remains open and anyone wishing to contribute to it should contact the Development Director. Read the full article about this new fund.

Generous gift supports academic visitors from the USA and other countries to Oxford

A generous benefaction from Professor Oliver Smithies (1943) is enabling Balliol to bring a succession of distinguished academic visitors from the USA to Oxford and to the College. Read the full article about this project. For information about those who have given the Oliver Smithies Lectures, click here.

Before 1999

The Jowett Centenary Appeal 1993-1998

In 1993, Barry Blumberg, who was Master at that time, launched the Jowett Centenary Appeal and Development Programme. This was pushed forwards by Colin Lucas as Master, and at the end of 1998, the internal target of £5 million had been raised in gifts, pledges and banker's orders. On top of that figure, £1.5 million had been promised between 1993 and 1998 in the form of bequests. We are grateful to all those who contributed to the Appeal and who helped in numerous ways, including the Old Members who raised money on behalf of the College. Read the full report by Andrew Graham, written in 1999, about the Appeal.