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Success for UCL Futures

11 November 2005

Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of UCL, awarded prizes to five students in November for their outstanding work on the most recent UCL Futures telephone campaign, which offers alumni and friends the opportunity to support UCL.

Professor Grant awarding a prize to Daliah Haughton

Student callers Antoine Boo (UCL Anthropology), Daliah Haughton (UCL Development Planning), Maggie Monsell (UCL Medicine), Jeff Nakamura (UCL Slade School), and Meera Sivanesan (UCL 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 UCL students, and grants for innovative UCL 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 UCL with today's students. He attributed the campaign's success to the warmth for UCL still felt by alumni and the students' professionalism and friendly manner.

UCL alumni are on target to once again contribute a large amount in the current student telephone campaign for UCL 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.

UCL Futures builds on the success of ten years of the UCL Friends Programme and a half-century of the Friends' Trust. It is part of Advancing London's Global University - the Campaign for UCL, 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 UCL'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