Giving to ASE

Dear ASE Alums,

If you've got as far as reading these words, my guess is that you are one of the many students and faculty who have found the ASE experience in some way extraordinary and unforgettable, and that you'd like to help the Programme thrive in future.

By making a financial donation to the ASE Alumni Fund, however modest or substantial, you will be helping us continue to provide the kind of unique, remarkable study abroad programme you enjoyed to as diverse a community of students as possible.

Your money will be used by the ASE Programme here in Bath to help in one or more of the following ways:

  • helping increase diversity and inclusion, through the new Bridgetower Fund and the Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship

  • Need-based scholarships and travel/research grants

  • Renovation and refurbishment of ASE-owned properties (Nelson, Linley and Nunes Houses)

  • Improved resources for the academic and social/cultural programme

Jonathan Hope, Dean and Director

Our Alumni-Supported Funds

It is my sincere wish that the ASE Programme should continue to offer a uniquely enriching experience for many more generations of students. I find it thrilling to think that it won't be long before the first children of ASE graduates are heading to Bath; and - promise not to tell her? - secretly harbour the hope my own daughter will one day walk through the green door of Nelson House as more than just a visitor...

If ASE will always have a special place in your heart, I urge you to give as generously as you are able.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

The ASE Alumni Scholarships

By giving to the Alumni Scholarship fund you’ll be helping us to give needs-based assistance and travel/research grants to current students.

We are happy to receive donations no matter how modest or substantial. A regular donations of as little as $10 per month will soon grow to a substantial sum.

MAKE A DONATION

Funds in support of specific communities of ASE student.

  • Don Nunes

    The Don Nunes Scholarship

    This is a long-standing need-based scholarship, named for ASE’s founder - the late, great Don Nunes - from which countless students of colour have already benefitted.

    As those of us who knew Don personally will testify, he was passionate in his opposition to racism, and wished ASE to be as accessible as possible to students from under-represented populations. The Don Nunes Memorial Scholarship is available to a student from an under-represented population, according to financial need. It is an award of £1000 for a semester's study.

    TO SUPPORT THE DON NUNES SCHOLARSHIP BY MAKING A DONATION THROUGH ASE

    CONTACT US
  • George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860)

    The Bridgetower Fund

    The Bridgetower Fund, is named after George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860), a brilliant Black musician, of African and European heritage, who famously performed in Bath.

    The Fund will provide financial assistance to students of colour, for participation in a broad range of enriching cultural activities and events.

    TO SUPPORT THE BRIDGETOWER FUND

    GIVE HERE
  • Mike Ruiz (Sp98)

    The Mike Ruiz Scholarship

    Mike Ruiz is an alum of the programme, who studied in Bath in Spring 1998. He has generously endowed a needs-based scholarship to help make studying abroad more accessible to the LGBTQ+ community.

    The Mike Ruiz Scholarship is available to a student from the LGBTQ+ community, according to need, and Mike welcomes contributions to help boost its giving power.

    GIVE HERE

  • The Anne Nunes Scholarship for Educators

    This fund is named in honour of Ann Nunes, wife of ASE’s founder Don, the second Dean and Director, and creator of the Education programme.

    The scholarship is available to students apply for ASE’s education programme, according to need.

    GIVE HERE

Tax-efficient giving through the British Schools and Universities Foundation

To make a gift to ASE, and take a U.S. income tax deduction, you may make a single gift by check or regular donations by credit card to the British Schools & Universities Foundation (Federal I.D. Number 13-616-1189), a charitable organization approved by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3) of their Code.

You should express "a preference for Advanced Studies in England" in your transmittal letter (a form for this purpose can be downloaded here), not on your cheque, which is to be drawn to the order of the British Schools & Universities Foundation. Such preferences are respected by the Foundation but all grants are made at its sole discretion, as required by the I.R.S.

Note that neither ASE nor the BSUF will take an administrative charge from your gift.