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Alumni and friends invest in Bristol beyond their lifetimes

10 November 2011

PET scan of brain with Alzheimer's

PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer's disease. Legacies are helping advance research into this disease.
Image by US National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center

In 2010/11 the University was honoured to receive an incredible £1,909,663 through gifts in the Wills of alumni and friends. We feel privileged to remember the lives of those donors through the work they chose to support. In the last academic year these gifts supported a wide range of activities across the University, including student hardship bursaries, and special projects in History and in Medicine and Dentistry. In addition, gifts funded research into diseases such as cancer and dementia, for which cures and treatments are being sought by our leading academics, researchers and clinicians.

In particular, the Donald Mills Fund was created last year with his generous bequest to provide pump-priming grants for new research in dementia.

The University of Bristol is very fortunate in the increasing number of friends and alumni who are committing to support the University in this way. Gifts in Wills can be truly transformational, as Cassie Squance's Legacy exemplifies.

To find out more about how you could support the University with a gift in your Will, please visit the Legacy pages of our website.