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The impact of your support
‘ Mansfield took a naïve 18 year-old under its wing and nurtured me through my three student years. I have extremely happy memories of those years, which have been profoundly influential on my life. I feel very strongly that its Nonconformist tradition, combined with its deep regard for the strength of social co- operation and action, is its defining characteristic.
It is the abiding imprint of this ethos which has led
to my active and lasting involvement in community politics and community education, and has underpinned my 50+ years working in education – not least as Headteacher of an East End community/comprehensive school, and subsequently as Deputy Director of a national education charity.’
‘ Mansfield is such a cool college. I definitely applied [here] because I knew that it has lots of diversity relative to other colleges in Oxford, and I knew that it has one of,
if not the, highest state school intakes out of Oxford and Cambridge. Coming here was honestly one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’ve met so many people that I wouldn’t normally meet, from different places. Coming from London I hadn’t had any Northern friends before so it’s been really great to meet those people and find out about their lives and interact and share things about myself as well. It’s been
a really great experience.’
Yolanda Ameny
(MEng Engineering, 2019)
Mike Walton
(English, 1956)
and click past £60,000. The exhausted rowers and runners punch the air as the Principal sounds the klaxon to end what has been a marathon effort. Exhausted, elated, we toast the Mansfield community.
I am beyond delighted with our total raised (over £70,000), particularly in this year when our students need our support more than ever.
But what was achieved in coming together and celebrating Mansfield as a community was just as valuable and demonstrates a generosity of spirit that not even the strictest physical distancing or Covid restrictions can repress.
Prof Chris Martin, Professorial Research Fellow in Civil Engineering, and his daughter Olivia
Head Porter Tom holding a Community Week Brownie
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