The College aims to ensure all who live and work here can do so in a decent learning environment.

St Anne’s is able to offer affordable accommodation on the College site to all undergraduates who want a room throughout their entire academic course. We can also house half our post-graduate students in near-by, purpose-built accommodation.

That our students can now congregate together in College, living, eating and working together, helps foster a tight-knit academic community.

Improving our Dining Hall

But it also increases wear and tear. The number of student meals served each year, for example, has increased by 112% since the opening of the Ruth Deech Building two years ago.

A crucial project for the coming year is to replace, after 20 years’ resilient service, the tables and chairs in the Dining Hall. To buy 300 chairs and 25 tables robust enough to withstand constant, daily use by hundreds of students will cost the College an estimated £85,000.

Improving our student common rooms and public space

Last year, the College made a number of improvements to the JCR (now housed in the Hartland Room) which were widely welcomed by our undergraduates. 

This year, we aim to improve the MCR - recognising that there are now some 180 post-graduates studying at St Anne’s - by re-locating and expanding their common room facilities. This project will cost an estimated £21,500.

We will also create in the next year a new common room available to all members of College - students, staff and tutors - within Trenaman House. This will be a public space where all who live and work at St Anne’s can rub shoulders with one another. This project will cost an estimated £30,750.

The College is inviting you to make a gift this year to enable us to pay for these essential projects designed to improve the living and working conditions of all our students and tutors.