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Student callers Antoine Boo (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Anthropology), Daliah Haughton (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Development Planning), Maggie Monsell (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Medicine), Jeff Nakamura (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Slade School), and Meera Sivanesan (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Medicine) were awarded the prizes in recognition of the success of their contribution to the fundraising effort.

The campaign in the summer of 2005 was the most successful to date, generating over £165,000 to support much-needed scholarships for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº students, and grants for innovative ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº projects that would otherwise not come to fruition.

Professor Grant also met with student callers participating in the current telephone campaign. He thanked them all and said it was important for alumni to have the chance to discuss ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº with today's students. He attributed the campaign's success to the warmth for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº still felt by alumni and the students' professionalism and friendly manner.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº alumni are on target to once again contribute a large amount in the current student telephone campaign for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Futures. Recent projects funded include the first ever mathematics and physical sciences summer school and a women's VIII rowing boat for the Royal Free & University College Medical School (RUMS) Boat Club.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Futures builds on the success of ten years of the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Friends Programme and a half-century of the Friends' Trust. It is part of Advancing London's Global University - the Campaign for ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, one of the largest fundraising campaigns at a UK university. The campaign aims to raise £300 million over the next decade, to match the £300 million already raised since the early 1990s through philanthropic support from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's alumni, staff and friends and donations from charitable foundations and industry.

Image 1: Professor Grant awarding a prize to Daliah Haughton
Image 2: Student caller Maggie Monsell at work

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