Make a donation
Support the UWE Bristol Fund
Your gift, of any size, will make a huge difference. It will enable us to help more students facing financial hardship, provide an excellent student experience, and support the impact of our world-leading research.
Ways to donate
Regular gifts
- Make a regular payment via direct debit.
- Complete a standing order form and return it to us. We will then relay the information to your bank on your behalf.
Singular gifts
If you are doing a sponsored event, you can fundraise for any of the areas outlined in the UWE Bristol Fund from supporting students in financial hardship, to enhancing the student experience or supporting important research.
To discuss your fundraising ideas and find out what support we can offer, please contact the UWE Bristol Fund Team.
Anyone can make a gift in their will, whether large or small and even a modest percentage – after you have provided for your family and friends – can have a life-changing impact.
You can direct your gift to whichever area you are most passionate about supporting, or make an unspecified gift for the University to direct to the area of greatest need at that time.
For an information pack about including UWE Bristol in your will, please get in touch with the UWE Bristol Fund Team.
Payroll giving is an easy and tax-effective way to make a regular donation to charity. It is offered by thousands of employers, including UWE Bristol, throughout the UK.
With payroll giving, your monthly donation is taken from your pay before tax is deducted. This means that the University receives your donation and the tax you would have paid on that amount straight away, enabling your gift to go further at no extra cost to you.
Anyone paid through Pay As You Earn (PAYE) can use payroll giving to donate to us. However, your employer must have a payroll giving scheme in place in order for you to make a donation in this way. Your employer may refer to the scheme by using a payroll-giving agency brand name such as 'Give As You Earn'.
Many employers will also match their employees’ charitable donations made by payroll giving, which means you could make double the difference to us.
Make a donation
To make your donation please download and complete the payroll giving form before sending it to your employer’s payroll department. If you are a UWE Bristol member of staff, please send the form to the UWE Bristol Fund Team.
Benefits of payroll giving
| Amount donated from net pay (basic rate taxpayer) |
Amount donated from net pay (higher rate taxpayer) |
Donation we received |
| £2.40 | £1.80 | £3.00 |
| £4.00 | £3.00 | £5.00 |
| £8.00 | £6.00 | £10.00 |
| £16.00 | £12.00 | £20.00 |
| £40.00 | £30.00 | £50.00 |
How Apak Group are making a difference"Supporting computing students at UWE Bristol is the perfect fit with the business of our main benefactor, Apak Group. I know Tony, the founder of Apak, would have been very proud. Every year we look forward to meeting 'our' students, and we enjoy hearing about how they get on."
Lin Papadopoullos Tony’s widow and Chair of Trustees, Tony Papadopoullos Charitable Trust
Financial systems specialists Apak Group wanted to set up a bursary to celebrate the memory of founder Tony Papadopoullos. So far it’s been a great success.
About Apak Group
Apak was founded in 1979 by Tony Papadopoullos and has grown to become a leading provider of specialist financial systems. The business, which now operates as Apak Group, is based just outside Bristol and supports the global asset finance and banking sectors.
The Tony Papadopoullos Bursary
When the original Apak business merged with the Sword group, two former Apak directors created the Tony Papadopoullos Memorial Trust with a donation from funds created from the merger.
UWE Bristol worked with the Trust to create the Tony Papadopoullos Bursary – financial help awarded to two high performing students studying an undergraduate course involving computing.
Apak Group continue to support the bursary through regular donations to the Memorial Trust. The team sees it as a very suitable memorial for Tony, and everyone at Apak Group appreciates the feel good factor of supporting successful students.
