On Monday 17 October 2011 the University launched its biggest ever fundraising campaign — and it wants you to be involved.

Impact: The Nottingham Campaign will raise £150m to support the University’s vision to change lives, tackle global issues and shape the future. Through this fundraising Campaign we will establish an even more diverse student body, provide a richer student experience, transform research programmes and make an even greater contribution to the global communities we serve.

Across the world, universities have only been able to flourish due to the visionary actions of philanthropists over hundreds of years. Such investment has allowed independence of thought and action by scholars and students to tackle society’s most pressing issues.

Two influential Nottingham alumni have agreed to co-chair the Campaign — the award-winning journalist, Jeff Randall, Sky News presenter and editor-at-large for The Daily Telegraph, and businessman and philanthropist David Ross, co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse and founder of the David Ross Foundation.

Our work has already begun. A total of £50m has already been raised through generous donations both large and small.

The Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, Professor David Greenaway, has just completed the Campaign’s hugely successful sponsored cycle ride, Life Cycle. This saw an 11-strong team of staff from our campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia cycle from John O’Groats to Land’s End. The team raised over £211,000 for the University’s Sue Ryder Care Centre for Palliative and End of Life Care, and the money is still coming in.

Professor Greenaway said: “Life Cycle was just the warm-up to the launch of our Campaign to raise £150m. We are proud of what we achieved, but there is a lot more work to do.”

Five Campaign themes will be rolled out across a week-long launch: The Nottingham Experience, Health and Well-being, Nurturing Talent, Ingenuity and Sustainable Futures.

A series of previews took place from Monday 3 October to Friday 7 October, to allow staff and students to find out more about the five themes and how they could get involved in the launch week events.

Further updates will be available on the portals, or email: Impactcampaign@nottingham.ac.uk