Trinity students may apply for funding to support special activities over the summer. Their activities have ranged from undertaking a placement with Communauté Abel in Africa, directing a short film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and attending the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge 2024. We highlight some others below.
Amy Freeman, History, Third Year
I spent a month volunteering with Eurorelief in Mavrovouni refugee camp on Lesbos. Playing UNO, sorting out second-hand Dutch shoes and checking off the daily food list allowed an insight into the human cost of displacement and the multinational efforts to alleviate it. I picked up bits of Farsi as I taught children English, and enjoyed getting to know the people living there. Most were from Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen and had arrived in Lesbos via Turkey, visible across the sea. The experience solidified my ambitions to go into development or international relations, but primarily it was good to learn about and be part of efforts to love a particularly vulnerable section of humanity.
Sydney Heintz, English, Second Year
The Projects Fund enabled me to participate in the T.S. Eliot Summer School at Merton College, Oxford, a week-long course on the works and life of the poet. The group of academics running the School showed a fierce dedication to cutting-edge research, honest intellectual debate and discussion. It forced me think, read, and talk about poetry in new and innovative ways. It also taught me how to exchange with people of all walks of life: academics and students, but also enthusiasts, retirees and people who had never read any Eliot before. It was a great week.
Dido Coley, Classics, Second Year and Lily Kearney, Maths, Fourth Year
Lily and I were able to compete in Bridge Championships over the course of the summer, travelling from Poland to Sweden and then Norway because of the generosity of the Projects Fund. Bridge is a complex 4-player card game where two players form a partnership to bid accurately to the best contract, competing against the other two players. We snagged the bronze medal in the World Youth Transnational Pairs Championship and won a number of events that took place in the Swedish and Norwegian Bridge Festivals. Due to the grant, we were able to access competitions of a higher standard and interact with many different players and styles of the game; none of this would have been possible without it!
Nick Richardson-Waldin, Music, graduated 2024
Over the summer, Cadenza (Cambridge’s premiere student A cappella group) performed six shows to sell-out audiences for our fourth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. With our show ‘A Day in the Life of a Cambridge Student’, we depicted the joys, milestones and pressures experienced by Cambridge students on a daily basis through our set of chart-topping numbers, spanning from pop hits to choral evensong classics. In preparation, a two-day ‘Boot-Camp’ rehearsal was held at Queen Margaret University to hone our choreography. None of this would have been possible, however, without the grants provided by Trinity College to fund accommodation, rehearsal spaces and concert venue hire that made this trip so special.
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