PARTICIPATION | Donor Report
STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
Promoting the Trinity Experience
Student activities play an important role in university life at Trinity. A wide range of these activities including societies, sports clubs and volunteering initiatives are supported each year by the TCD Association & Trust and the alumni community.
One of the many clubs that received
support in 2009 was the DUAFC (pictured above). The funds allocated enabled the club to purchase capital equipment – specifically four sets of protective kit for use by the club’s players, consisting of helmets, shoulder pads, soft pads, as well as practice jerseys and pants. This equipment is an invaluable asset to the club.
Through extensive fundraising efforts and grants, the club is attempting to build up a stock of kit which they rent out to players at a reasonable cost thus opening up the sport of American football to all.
www.ducac.tcdlife.ie www.trinitysocieties.ie
VOLUNTARY TUITION PROGRAMME
Providing tuition to students in the local community
The Voluntary Tuition Programme (VTP) is a partnership between Trinity students, parents and volunteers from the local communities of Pearse Street and Ringsend. Each year VTP matches Trinity students, graduates and staff members as tutors with children and teenagers studying in nearby schools. In 2008/09 a grant from the TCD Association & Trust to the VTP was used to support a variety of areas within the programme. Funds were used to support a successful recruitment drive for volunteers and orientation meeting for tutors, to purchase educational games for primary schools and to produce a monthly newsletter for parents and tutors involved in the programme.
Over 300 children and 300 Trinity
students enrolled in the Voluntary Tuition Programme with a committee of 20 people running the programme.
www.tcd.ie/vtp
Student2Student (S2S) Peer Mentor Programme began in 2008/09 in the faculty of Natural Science and to visiting International students, empowering Trinity students to support incoming first year students. The programme harnesses the drive and abilities of students to enrich the College experience of their peers. The programme is core to Trinity’s strategic objective of increasing retention rates, creating greater student involvement in the Trinity experience and developing a sense of community. The programme has successfully expanded to the Faculties of Science, and Two-Subject Moderatorship, dividing 1,000 freshers between 68 volunteers. It is envisioned all incoming students to Trinity will have a Peer Mentor by 2012.
The S2S Peer Mentor Programme
is hosted by the Senior Tutor’s Office and Student Counselling Service, and to date has received grants from the Provost by way of the Visual Arts Fund and the Equality Fund. The Trinity Annual Fund have also allocated funds to facilitate the staffing levels required for the continued expansion of the programme.
http://student2student.tcd.ie/
STUDENT2STUDENT
Peer Mentor Programme
I donate to Trinity to pay back in some small way for the best six years of my life, for a degree that earned me a decent living and for life long friendships. If it wasn’t for the exams I’d do it
all again.” Michael Reid, TCD alumnus
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Supporting active citizenship Participation
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