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Priorities

Gifts to Green Templeton have a real impact. The college’s current strategic priorities are in four areas.

Widening opportunity and participation

  • Tackling the full cost of being a student. This includes learning and travel grants, financial assistance schemes, affordable college accommodation and a vibrant, supportive student experience.
  • Growing our portfolio of scholarships to support real costs and expand the diversity of graduate learners. This includes studentships that address under-representation, that provide support for visa and childcare costs, and for ‘writing up’ stages of study.
  • Unlocking opportunities to enhance learning and personal and professional development. This includes academic enhancement activities plus social and cultural enrichment.

Delivering an environment of excellence

  • Creating a student village of purpose-built, energy-efficient accommodation within the former walled garden of Observer’s House.
  • Establishing a multipurpose hub at the heart of the Woodstock Road site with improved teaching and lecture space, meeting rooms, and hospitality and social spaces.
  • Ensuring the Radcliffe Observatory is fit for purpose for a second 250 years through a conservation and decarbonisation project to preserve and maintain it as an integral part of the college’s operations.

Catalysing knowledge exchange

  • Establishing a series of centres of academic excellence engaging with policy and practice on themes related to human welfare.
  • The first proposed centre, the Centre for Global Philanthropy, will focus on the production and use of trusted, high-quality evidence to increase the volume and impact of philanthropy globally.

Achieving financial resilience

  • The collegiate model at the University of Oxford is predicated on subsidising its world-leading education, learning and personal development for students through other sources of income. These range from commercial activities in support of core charitable purposes, successful fundraising and income from an endowment and long-term investments.
  • Green Templeton has made significant strides towards operating with small annual surpluses in recent years, but maximising the future of the college’s potential over the long term will ultimately require larger levels of investment.

For more information about gifts to Green Templeton and how you can support us, please contact Ceri Butcher, Director of Development, at +44 (0)1865 274797 or ceri.butcher@gtc.ox.ac.uk