Cascade Funding transformative student projects

1. CascadeFunding transformative student projects Nottingham Experience Launch

2. Since 2007 donations from thousands of alumni and close friends of the University have allowed us to fund over 100 student-led projects with grants totalling over £1million. Nottingham Experience Launch

3. Cascade was formerly the Annual Fund. It supports projects which enhance the skills, confidence, social awareness and employability of students while making a significant impact on communities, both locally and globally. Nottingham Experience Launch

4. Here are just some of the projects which have been funded through the generosity of our donors. Nottingham Experience Launch

5. Thanks to a Cascade grant of £18,000, the School of Biology’s irreplaceable collection of animals, plants and microscope slides – featuring endangered and extinct species – has been catalogued and made accessible to students across the University and beyond.

6. With support from Cascade, 25 Nottingham medical students travelled to under-resourced communities in Honduras for a ten-day brigade, providing free consultations and medications via mobile medical clinics.

7. £8,000 supported the Sri Lankan Society to travel with 30 students to Sri Lanka to renovate a rural hospital near Kandy, and help in ‘The Blue Rose School’ for children with special needs.

8. 40 students from The University of Nottingham benefited from bursaries of £750 to attend Summer School programmes at Nottingham’s two overseas campuses in China and Malaysia in Summer 2011.

9. With support from Cascade, alumni and friends, architecture students have gained valuable hands on experience of designing and building much needed early learning nursery facilities in South Africa as part of Project Jouberton in 2009, and Project Limpopo in 2011.

10. £4,000 enabled Nottingham’s New Theatre to attend the National Student Drama Festival 2011 in Scarborough to perform an unprecedented four shows selected for inclusion.

11. Thanks to Cascade, Creative and Professional Writing and Fine Art students have been supported to continue publishing an anthology of their work until 2014 and beyond, gaining recognition within the local and national arts community.

12. Funding from Cascade has enabled more PGCE students from the School of Education to benefit from the School’s links with townships in Pretoria, South Africa, by experiencing a two-week teaching placement there.

13. £17,500 from Cascade has enabled entrepreneurial students to help hundreds of people in Ghana with the establishment of a micro-credit project offering small business loans to some of the poorest communities.

14. Thanks to a Cascade grant students are holding a monthly farmers market at the Sutton Bonington Campus, with the aim of making fresh, local and seasonal produce more easily available to students, university staff and the community, while supporting local producers.

15. We’d love to support even more student projects like these. With your help, we can. Nottingham Experience Launch