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TCD ASSOCIATION & TRUST
Report 2007/08

OVER €530,000 ALLOCATED TO 25 PROJECTS

Trinity College Dublin Association and Trust1 provides grant support for a wide variety of College projects where funding is not available from mainstream resources. Its committee, with administrative support from Trinity Foundation, is made up of Trinity graduates who operate on a volunteer basis.

One of the main sources of funding for the TCD Association and Trust comes from the TCD Affinity Credit Card (see ad). With over 10,000 cardholders to date, a percentage of the annual turnover on these cards is donated back to College by Bank of Ireland.

In the year ending September 2008, the TCD Association & Trust allocated €531,525 to the following 25 projects:


ALLOCATION BY PROJECT THEME

COLLEGE LIFE AND SPORT €96,800
• Dental Overseas Voluntary Electives (see Page 9 for further details)
• DU Boat Club & DU Ladies Boat Club VIII Boats
• DU Boxing Club Competition Ring
• DU Sailing Club New Boat
• DU Visual Arts Society bringing production to New York
• Medical Overseas Voluntary Electives
• Samuel Beckett Centre international exchange to Berlin
• Student Participation in Student Theatre Festival Arezzo Italy
• Students Union Childcare Funding (see Page 21 for further details)
• Undergraduate Travel Fund (see Page 21 for further details)
• University of Dublin Choral Society Brahms Requiem Performance


OTHER THEMES €250,000
• Save the Treasures of the Long Room (see Page 12 for further details)


RESEARCH €94,425
• Anomalous Relaxation Processes in Dipolar Systems
• Dielectric Phenomena and its applications to Materials Science and Engineering
• Macroscopic quantum tunnelling in superconducting junctions
• Perspectives on Design & Bioengineering: a symposium in honour of C.G. Lyons
• Postgraduate & Postdoctoral study (see Page 17 for further details)
• Public Bodies and Institutional Separation: The Separation of Powers Theory Going Forward
• Trinity Trench – Archaeological Dig
• Profiling of the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice 2008-11


PUBLICATIONS €90,300
• Platonism and Forms of Intelligence
• The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution and History
• The Politics of Expansion: a study of Irish educational policy 1957-72
• The Trinity Year book
• Trinity Today – A publication for alumni and friends Issue 13, Vol. 1


1 The Trinity Annual Fund (TAF) works closely with the TCD Association & Trust to fund small and medium size projects which are not funded by mainstream College resources.