UCL launches £600m philanthropy campaign  

UCL is aiming to raise £600m for cutting-edge research, transformative capital projects and expanded student support in a new fundraising and engagement campaign, It's All Academic - The Campaign for UCL , launched today in London. The target is one of the biggest ever seen in the UK's higher education sector, with only Oxford and Cambridge raising larger levels of philanthropic funding through their campaigns. The Campaign is launching with £253m already raised, which represents 20,707 donations by 10,287 donors from 76 countries since 2011. The Campaign will focus on four main themes that represent the university's long-term priorities - students, health, London, and disruptive thinking - and the funding will support the university to achieve some of its biggest strategic ambitions, including: a new Dementia Research Institute in Queen's Square, providing a state of the art home for its world-leading dementia research community, which includes two Nobel Laureates and the UK's first winner of the Breakthrough Prize.