Areas of Support
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Explore the areas of support to learn more about the College’s current priorities, the impact your generosity can have, and the ways in which gifts may be recognised. Whether you wish to support students’ immediate needs, establish a subject-specific named scholarship, or endow a Fellowship, we would be delighted to work with you to create a gift that is both meaningful and enduring. We warmly welcome conversations about bespoke opportunities that reflect your personal interests or academic passions.
A Lasting Legacy: The John Bowers Opportunity Fund
For more than a decade, Principal John Bowers has championed a vision of Brasenose that is ambitious, welcoming, and open to talent in all its forms. During his tenure, the College has strengthened its commitment to ensuring that exceptional young people can see Brasenose as a place where they belong, regardless of circumstances. As John prepares to conclude his leadership of the College, we have a unique opportunity to create a lasting legacy in his name. The John Bowers Opportunity Fund will help ensure that the values he has championed – opportunity, inclusion, aspiration, and excellence – continue to shape Brasenose for generations to come. Will you support this lasting legacy?
Support The Rare Book Collection
For over five centuries, Brasenose College has safeguarded works that shaped intellectual history, from medieval manuscripts to the writings of Thomas Hobbes, Albrecht Dürer, Ben Jonson and John Donne. Numbering more than 2,500 items, including 83 incunabula (books printed before 1501), the College’s collection of rare books represents an important resource for the study of early academic books.
The pre-1640 Collection has been housed in the High Street Tower since it was built. Whilst charming, the Collection is awkward to reach and, despite best efforts, the room has been increasingly affected by climatic changes which risk future damage to the Collection. Keeping them there is no longer sustainable.
The College has therefore embarked upon a project to relocate the Collection to a newly refurbished, ground-floor space at the centre of College life, alongside the Library, designed both as a dedicated reading room for the Collection and as a flexible teaching space.
Help us to bring the Collection into the centre of College life.
1509 Society
Named after the year of the College’s foundation, the 1509 Society reflects Brasenose’s enduring values. Thanks to generous donors giving £1,509 or more each year, the College can continue to uphold excellence, achievement, and a spirit of academic curiosity. Each year, members of the 1509 Society, along with a guest, are invited to a drinks reception to celebrate and recognise the impact of their generosity.
