The Centre for Philanthropy, based in SSPSSR, is researching the history of donations to our University since it was founded in 1965.

Some are recorded in official documents but many are not. Centre researchers are looking for any accounts of philanthropic acts or donations within your department, either to or from the University. If you know of any examples, then it would be great to hear from you.

These could be:

• cash donations
• equipment
• trees/benches/anything that changes the University landscape
• books
• working with charities off-campus
• anything else!

The results will be published in a Beacon Project-funded book (draft title: “Kent: The Philanthropy Story”), to be launched at an event on ‘Understanding Philanthropy on 29/30 June 2015.

Please contact Dr Triona Fitton (T.Fitton@kent.ac.uk), with any suggestions, examples, stories and accounts of gifts, volunteering or donations (no matter how big or small) that you are aware of, that may not have been widely documented and that you think deserve a place in the history of philanthropy at the University of Kent. The Centre would be glad to give you a free copy and/or an invitation to the conference in return.