Your impact

City’s partnership with Santander Universities was established in 2007 and extended in 2019 to support three key areas - education, entrepreneurship and employability with a donation of nearly £350,000 over three years.

• The funding that City has received from Santander has made a real difference to the lives of our students, supporting their education, providing them with opportunities and helping to fund their aspiring business ideas.

  President Professor Sir Paul Curran

In 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Santander Universities gave an additional £25,000 to provide financial support for students adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

In 1894, the Worshipful Companies of Saddlers provided financial support to enable the founding of the Northampton Institute and that relationship has continued to the present day. We are immensely grateful to the generations of members of the Livery for their generous support.

This has ranged from ensuring all students have the advice they need to tackle a range of issues by providing funding for Student Advisors in our award-winning Saddlers Student Centre, to enabling students to reach their potential by funding scholarships.

City is very proud of its relationships with the institutions of the City of London, in particular the relationships with the Livery Companies of the City of London. Generous donations from Livery companies have provided a range of opportunities to our students, and we are grateful for the many scholarships, prizes and bursaries our students have benefitted from, as well as the research that takes place thanks to Livery Companies

On behalf of current and future City students, we would like to give a huge thanks to the Wolfson Foundation trustees for their generous donation. Having the latest equipment in our radiography skills suite, means we have the opportunity to prepare and fine tune our technique before heading out onto placement and gives us the confidence to showcase our abilities at future interviews.

Dr Sophie Willis, Undergraduate Programme Director Diagnostic Radiography in the Department of Midwifery and Radiography said:

The new equipment has enabled our students to benefit from cutting-edge technology and ensure that they are fully prepared to embrace all learning opportunities and emerge from the programme confident to successfully apply for their first clinical jobs. Facilitating the teaching sessions has become more flexible and seeing the students' confidence increase, has been extremely rewarding.

We are very grateful to the Wolfson Foundation for their support and look forward to extensive equipment usage in the future.

The Olive Tree Scholarship Programme for Israeli and Palestinian undergraduates at City, University of London, ran from 2004 to 2016.

It was a unique initiative that enabled five successive cohorts of talented young Palestinians and Israelis to gain undergraduate degrees in a variety of disciplines, including Psychology, Engineering, International Politics, Law, Business, Sociology and Journalism.

The Programme also enabled the students to better understand the drivers of the conflict that has shaped their lives and prospects in the Middle East, through cross-conflict dialogue, the study of their respective national narratives and narrative mediation.

The Programme’s activities included weekly meetings during term time, residential retreats, and field trips to Northern Ireland to learn from ex-combatants and activists involved in conflict mediation there.

The Olive Tree scholars also attended public debates around London and discussions with visiting experts. Throughout they were encouraged to develop their leadership, decision-making and presentational skills.

58 Palestinian and Israeli students participated in the Olive Tree Programme. Several won further scholarships to undertake postgraduate study, including some at City, others attained graduate placements in business and finance, and many have become skilled professionals and prominent figures in their communities.

A number have become successful journalists with media organisations broadcasting in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

Funding for the programme, which provided students with the funds needed to cover the costs of their fees and accommodation, was provided by the university along with a wide range of supporters including individual donors, corporations, trusts and foundations committed to the ethos and goals of the endeavour.

It was thanks to generosity of he founding patrons Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, MBI Al Jaber Foundation and Mr Derek Tullet, that the programme was able to launch.