Thank you to the amazing supporters taking action on causes they believe in We are so grateful and proud when we can share news of a life-changing donation or partnership. Below are a few highlights of funding and collaboration announcements from our amazing supporters, throughout the Birmingham In Action campaign. Supporters from the Jain community visit campus to celebrate a gift of $1.5 million to establish research and teaching in Jainism at the University of Birmingham Birmingham graduate Andrew Fisher is supporting critical research into how households are affected by the cost-of-living crisis and coming recession Care Fertility are supporting miscarriage research by Professor Arri Coomarasamy and his team through a gift of £202,800 to fund two PhDs Goldman Sachs have joined forces with Birmingham to deliver the Pathways to Birmingham programme, through financial support, ongoing mentorship and upskilling opportunities for students After donating some of their daughter's cells to use in Dr Frank Mussai's research into childhood cancer, Ashley and Safiyya of The Azaylia Foundation donated £120,000 to fund a cell sorting machine, which could speed up the development of new cancer treatments Childhood cancer charity Alice’s Arc donated £220,000 in 2021 to improve treatment for a rare type of children’s cancer The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made a $10.9 million grant in 2020 for a ground-breaking trial aiming to stop women dying in childbirth in Africa and Asia Gowling WLG (UK) Charitable Trust has partnered with the University to launch the Black Talent in Law Bursary scheme, to support better access to the legal profession for black students HSBC UK has joined forces with the University and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital to take action on childhood bullying, a preventable root cause of mental ill health Research to help patients' own immune systems fight cancer in their blood and/or lymph systems has been funded by the Michael Marsh Charitable Trust and by a charitable bequest from former patients at the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust The SPIE Endowment Matching Program’s $400,000 gift made possible the SPIE Optics and Photonics Champion Academy, to support and train students in light-based technologies, key for everything from biomedical treatments to high speed internet Our impact page shows the difference made by donors whose gifts are already delivering key research breakthroughs and making it possible for more young people to study at Birmingham.