Thank you

Thanks to you, 350 undergraduate and 51 postgraduate students from low income or underrepresented backgrounds will be supported through university with a scholarship. Scholarships are their lifeline and provide the means for them to fulfil their potential and thrive at Sheffield. 

I feel so lucky to have been chosen among so many deserving applicants to receive a  scholarship. But it’s hard knowing that not everyone will be as lucky as I was. I feel inspired to work hard and become successful in order to give the same opportunity to other students in the future. My uni life today is very different from what it would be without my scholarship.

Mike Azorji, Medicine student

You've helped thousands of students to take part in innovative activities. You've helped clubs and societies to increase and encourage participation from underrepresented groups, fund vital equipment, and support involvement in national and international competitions. 

This year 75 grants were made to clubs and societies ranging from the Horticultural Society and Women’s Cricket to Forge Radio to Pom Cheerleading. 

I would like to say a massive thank you, on behalf of every member of Pom Cheerleading for the funding we have been awarded this year. It has been a great help in increasing equality, diversity and sustainability in our club and we are forever grateful for this. We really would not be the club we are today without your help.

Megan Blackett, Pom Cheerleading

Sheffield is taking a leading role in pioneering new treatments for genetic diseases thanks to you. The GTIMC (Gene Therapy Innovation and Manufacturing Centre) is at the heart of this research, accelerating the manufacture of brand new gene therapies to enter clinical trials. This incredible facility, that our donor community helped to realise, is helping to rewrite the future for people living with life-altering genetic diseases.

Gene therapy is lifesaving, it’s revolutionary! It’s changed our lives. It’s given my son mobility that he’d lost. The possibilities are unknown but exciting. I’m insanely proud that my university is leading this field of research - I may have left the University of Sheffield but it never left me.

Dharmisha Stezaly, Class of 2012 and mother to Sebastian, who received gene therapy for SMA type 1 - a single treatment prevented the disease progressing and his body deteriorating.