With two years to spare, former Exeter University students have spent more than 60,000 hours volunteering at the University of Exeter.
The Making The Exceptional Happen campaign, launched in 2012, aimed to encourage 60,000 alumni volunteering hours by 2020.
Since the start of the campaign, alumni volunteers have given more than 700 careers talks (benefiting more than 21,000 students), answered more than 1,200 student careers questions by email and provided more than 1,500 one-on-one mentoring partnerships lasting 6-12 months each.
“60,000 volunteering hours in six-and-a-half years is an incredible gift,” said Sir Steve Smith, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter.
“It equates to one of our alumni volunteering for the university every hour of every day of every year since the start of the campaign.”
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