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The impact of your support
Recognising your kind legacy support: now and forever
Legacy Garden
‘To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow’, so said Audrey Hepburn. Mansfield’s new Legacy Garden is a celebration of the generosity of the legacies left by generations before us, and will become a flourishing, permanent reminder of how legacy gifts can help our future.
The Legacy Garden, designed and planted
by the College’s gardener, Thomas Edgar, is situated in the Fellows’ Garden at Mansfield. Planting began in earnest in October 2020 and the aim is to create a garden that will look beautiful now, but also evolve and develop over time. It will be a place of reflection
and memory, for quiet contemplation: somewhere to gather, remember and pay tribute to the generosity of those who have made Mansfield what it is today.
Members of our Sarah Glover Society,
the group established to recognise those who have pledged to support Mansfield through a legacy gift, have been offered the opportunity to have their name, or that of someone they wish to honour, listed on a wall plaque in the Legacy Garden. It will become a beautiful place at College where we publicly acknowledge and thank our legators for this very special pledge of support.
A gift in your will is one of the most powerful and vital ways you can support your College. Legacy gifts will help ensure that future generations of students can also have access to the best that higher education can offer, so that they – like
you – can use the opportunities Mansfield has given them to contribute to the lives of those who come after them.
If you would like to discuss leaving a gift
to College in your will, please contact Gemma McPhail in the Development Team at gemma.mcphail@mansfield.ox.ac.uk and she would be delighted to give you a call.
If you have already included Mansfield in your will but haven’t yet told us, please let us know so we can include you in Sarah Glover Society activities and recognise your pledged support in the Legacy Garden if you wish.
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