25th Anniversary of the Corporate Partnership Programme

In 2021, the Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Programme celebrated its 25th anniversary. We marked our milestone year with a series of activities that recognised this achievement, celebrated the successes we had along the way, and demonstrated the impact of the programme in bringing academia and industry together for the benefit of all. 

The focus of our activities was on climate rescue, and in particular on how organisations can respond to the climate crisis. Throughout the year we asked our partners and collaborators to contribute to a monthly blog series, sharing their thought-leadership on climate rescue initiatives. We developed bespoke workshops tailored to their own climate-related challenges, and over the summer we brought all of our partners together for the first time in an inaugural virtual round table. Our regular annual events – the Parmee Prize, the William Pitt Seminar and the BT-Pembroke Lecture all had a climate rescue theme.

The Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Programme has provided demonstrable benefit to our partners and the College over the past 25 years. By choosing to theme our activities on climate rescue we hoped to showcase the climate-related initiatives in the College and University to our partners, exemplify the unique multi-disciplinary role a College can play in bringing people together around a challenge, and contribute to mitigating a global problem that affects us all.  

Our Development Director, Matthew Mellor, conducted an interview with Howard Raingold and Sir Mark Richmond asking about the early days of the Corporate Partnership Programme. The programme was the brainchild of Howard when he was Development Director, and early industry champion Mark helped expand the network and get it off to a flying start. Read the full interview here.