Alumni and friends
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Donate to the Alumni Fund
Your gifts to the Alumni Fund ensure we can allocate support where it's needed most.
The Alumni Fund is an invaluable source of financial support built by alumni and friends of the University.
Through the power of collective giving, Alumni Fund donors ensure there is a reliable and steady stream of support available to give our students and researchers the opportunities they need to thrive.
We find great value in unrestricted giving – as it allows us to allocate the funding where it is most needed now and in the future – but you can also choose to focus your funding on a specific area including scholarships, academia and research, or student experiences and initiatives.
You can become a regular supporter of the Alumni Fund via monthly or annual donations, or provide a single gift.
Read on to discover the impact of your support.
By donating to the Alumni Fund, you can help the brightest minds fulfil their potential.
The Alumni Fund supports a wide range of scholarships including our Gold Scholarship Programme, Sanctuary Scholarships and arts and sports scholarships.
Our Bath Bursary scheme provides financial support to students with a household income of £30,000 or below.
“I can’t tell you how happy I was to know I was one of the lucky ones to get a Gold Scholarship. I felt that I was looked after, in safe hands to start my degree.” - Gold Scholar and biomedical sciences student, Ghazala.
Each year, a total of £50,000 is distributed from the Alumni Fund to a variety of academic and research projects, as well as student and campus initiatives.
Some of these impactful initiatives include:
- £5,000 to circular-technology company Lab Cycle developed by Bath PhD student Dr Helen Liang
- £5,000 to Bath PhD student Leen Jabban for her research on sensory feedback systems in prostheses
- £7,350 to the Bath Physics Observatory for new campus observatory
“As well as being fun, using the observatory equipment last year gave me a more practical understanding of how astronomy is done." - Physics with astrophysics student, Lucy
Our university is more than a place of learning. It’s where talents are uncovered and lifelong friendships are made.
Additional Alumni Fund grants support a range of student experiences and initiatives, such as placements and the participation and development of clubs and societies, that help build students' skills and confidence.
Some of the many student initiatives supported by the Alumni Fund include:
- the Students' Union
- engineering competition teams
- placement grants
- Vertically Integrated Projects (VIPs)
- free graduation gown hire
'We owe large amounts of our success to the Alumni Fund. It’s extra special that graduates are keeping the team going and enabling current students to excel." - Team Bath Racing Electric, the UK’s best student electric racing team
‘‘’These donations make a huge difference to new clubs or societies ... They allow committees to think bigger and provide incredible new opportunities for our members to do what they love.’’’
— Charlotte Barker 2023/24 Chair, Bath University Student Theatre (BUST)
Unrestricted donations to the Alumni Fund enables the University to allocate your generous gift where the need is greatest, including to the grants, scholarships and initiatives detailed above.
This flexibility is invaluable. It ensures we have a reliable source of funding to provide support – now and in the future – to students and researchers who are most in need at that time, whether that be providing a financial lifeline to a disadvantaged student or boosting a critical fundraising appeal.