Your support in action
These are just a few examples of how our alumni and other supporters have helped to enrich the lives of students at Essex:
In 2010
- your generosity meant we could give the Students’ Union £15,000 for a new disabled access minibus.
In 2011
- a £10,000 grant to the Student Union Advice Centre established the Essex Fund Hardship Loans for students in financial difficulty.
In 2012
- we marked the year of the Olympics with a £5,000 grant for Sports Scholarships, helping our top athletes with coaching, physiotherapy and the costs of competition and training
In 2013
- we sent a team of Human Rights students to the European Moot Court Competition, where they came 2nd.
In 2014 you helped
- build a state-of-the-art audio drama recording studio in the Lakeside Theatre
- fund vocational study for history students at the Bourne Mill restoration project
- provide £13,000 of new Sports equipment, including a new trampoline, new lacrosse goals and new hockey goalkeeping kit
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