From the Principal

Professor Geoffrey Ward

Welcome to the first edition of Homerton’s Annual Review! This new publication is an opportunity to put on record some of the outstanding achievements, stellar events and exciting new departures that characterise a year at Homerton. While as a College we continue to look forward, confident in our future and committed to innovation, in the first month ofa new year, it is wor th a briefpause to look back at where we were and at the ground we have advanced across.

I began this academical year by welcoming alumni to a weekend of reunions and festivity, replete with a performance given by the Charter Choir and an engaging and entertaining talk given by Dr Zoe Jaques, Fellow in English. It is always a delight to meet graduates from different decades, and to hear them share their experience of the same,

Professor Ward reads from Alice in Wonderland.

overlapping or quite different Homertons. One of the tasks our growing Development Office have set themselves is an improved understanding of the different phases in our forever evolving College.

We are also dependent on our alumni for their generous giving. This year’s telethon, led by current undergraduates, raised nearly £80,000, and the two single largest donations that the College has received were both given during the last twelve months. After the long blip of the twentieth century, philanthropy is once more, and will remain, a sine qua non for Collegiate Cambridge, including its newest and largest College. The impor tance ofphilanthrophy is reflected in the launch of the Campaign for the University and Colleges of Cambridge, whose theme – ‘Dear World… Yours, Cambridge’ – focusses on the difference Cambridge can make to the world.

Homerton has been quietly changing the world for almost 250 years. As the leading establishment in the country for training teachers