Home made cakes on sale in aid of Amref, Wolfson's chosen charity, £2 a slice to enjoy with your coffee. Please bring cash!

As we watch with horror the crisis in Ukraine, we are holding a special Giving Day on 11–12 May to allow Wolfson to provide a home to refugee scholars fleeing the catastrophe in Ukraine or other conflict zones around the world.

We will devote any additional funds secured to:

• Scholarships to allow students to pursue research at Oxford, whatever their financial means.
• Research and travel awards, enabling students to share their work at conferences or do essential lab- or field-work.
• Hardship bursaries for students in unexpected financial distress.
• Assistance with nursery fees for students with children at Wolfson Nursery.
• Better sports, welfare, and wellbeing facilities to support students’ physical and mental health, and to foster Wolfson’s special esprit de corps.
• Enhanced library facilities, to ensure Wolfsonians have the latest resources they need.

The Giving Day will be a 36-hour fundraising challenge for the whole Wolfson community – alumni around the world, students, fellows and staff.

There will be special events in College on both days:

Wednesday 11 May

• Row-a-thon: 9am - 9pm
• Bake sale: 10am - until everything is gone
• Lunchtime talk by Dr Jan Feller and Professor Julie Curtis 'Language and Culture in Contemporary Ukraine': 1 - 2pm

Thursday 12 May

• Row-a-thon: 9am - 9pm
• 'The War in Ukraine: a foreign policy perspective': 6 - 7pm
• Last day of online auction: closes at 9pm
   

Learn more about the campaign here.

Come and find out what it is to be a Wolfson Alumnus. The Wolfson Alumni Office will be giving away information and goodies all day in the Café on Thursday 20th June. We look forward to meeting as many leavers as possible.

We hope you can join us for an informal evening of drinks, canapés and speeches from Tim Hitchens, Stephen Wordsworth from CARA and some special guests. The event will take place at 19.00 in the Wolfson Café. The event is to celebrate and culminate the campaign we have been running this term to raise money to place an academic at risk with their family at Wolfson. We are aiming to raise £15,000 towards the first placement which matched by our donor will provide cost of supporting a CARA family for one year.