The University, academic staff and students personally thanked\u00a084 supporters of the Kent Law School at the inaugural Law Benefactors\u2019 Reception, the largest ever gathering of law donors, held on 12 June, 2014 in The Drawing Room at Fortnum and Mason.<\/p>\n
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent, Dame Julia Goodfellow, who\u00a0hosted the event\u00a0said \u201cIt was an enormous pleasure to welcome our benefactors for a very special celebration.\u00a0 A celebration of how our wider community continues to help build success at the University of Kent.\u00a0 Many of our guests had given gifts of time\u00a0or financial support to the Kent Law School and those who have benefited from\u00a0their generosity are most grateful\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Kent Law School has recently been ranked as the 10th<\/sup> best law school in the UK in The Times 2014 Good University Guide and has also achieved outstanding results in the most recent National Student Survey.<\/p>\n Many students have been awarded scholarships, prizes and hardship funds donated by our supporters and others have given to the Kent Law Campaign which has raised \u00a33.4 million of its \u00a35 million target to date to build new facilities for the Kent Law Clinic and Mooting Programme.\u00a0 In addition, over 100 of our benefactors support the School by advising the Kent Law Clinic, judging internal our mooting competition or offering work experience to our students.<\/p>\n Hilary Edridge, Head of Campaigns, said \u201cI was delighted to see so many people during the evening; alumni who are generous in their support of their alma mater and friends of the University who continue to play a direct role in the School and the Kent Law Campaign for which we are so grateful\u201d.<\/p>\n If you would like to support the Kent Law School financially or by offering your time, please contact us <\/a>to discuss how you can get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University, academic staff and students personally thanked\u00a084 supporters of the Kent Law School at the inaugural Law Benefactors\u2019 Reception, the largest ever gathering of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38579,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117889],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}