6 March 2013
An anonymous donor has awarded the University of Bristol £242,000 for a new project to help improve learning for pupils in disadvantaged rural secondary schools in Tanzania, Africa.
23 March 2012
Over 750,000 people in the UK suffer from some form of dementia, and more than half of them have Alzheimer's disease. The generous support of Bristol alumni is helping to drive forward dementia research, not just at Bristol but across the UK.
29 February 2012
As the UK counts down to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London, here at the University of Bristol we’re preparing by counting down to the 2012 Bristol Festival of School Sport. The Festival would not be possible without generous donations from alumni and friends, and support from volunteers.
10 November 2011
In 2010/11 the University received an incredible £1,909,663 through gifts in Wills.
8 September 2011
Donations from a Bristol alumnus, Geoffrey Lemon (BSc 1960), and from The Bristol Port Company, have helped a team from the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Engineering enter the ‘Racing Aeolus’ international wind-powered vehicle competition.
27 July 2011
Thanks to philanthropic support, we’re able to offer a Hodgkin Scholarship again in 2011/12. This year it will be awarded to a development worker from the new Republic of South Sudan.
27 July 2011
A generous gift of £150,000 from the Oak Foundation will enable Bristol’s Human Rights Implementation Centre to continue its collaboration with the UN and international NGOs to protect those most oppressed in the world.
3 June 2011
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research is to benefit from a $1.1 million donation to further a pioneering bone marrow stem cell trial, which has been shown to have possible benefits for the treatment of the disease.
3 June 2011
The Cabot Project, run by Dr Evan Jones of the Department of History, has been awarded £90,000 funding from Gretchen Bauta, a private Canadian benefactor with a particular interest in Canada's early history.
22 February 2011
A donation from The Moulton Charitable Foundation has enabled Bristol researchers to take their ground-breaking work on preventing brain injury in babies to the next stage.