collegiate Lincoln
Support Welfare
Thanks to our Annual Fund, we have significantly enhanced our welfare support for students. Our welfare coordinator is on hand to provide advice and help students navigate difficult situations. This can range from having a chat, to signposting to an appropriate professional and ensuring they do not get forgotten. We have given a lot of thought to our welfare provision at Lincoln over the last few years, in part prompted by the experiences of the pandemic, but also in response to the many pressures which today's young people have to contend with.
We are extremely lucky to have Lisa Stokes-King as our Student Welfare Coordinator, in a newly-defined role, and Juliet as our College Counsellor. We are also very fortunate to have a strong welfare team to ensure our students have the best experience during their time at Lincoln. We have a warm and caring college community here at Lincoln, where the work of the welfare team is able to build on the kind and supportive atmosphere generated by so many. The Annual Fund also enables us to provide timely additional funding to students in need. As our welfare coordinator Lisa says, "it is a privilege to be able to provide accommodation for those students who have nowhere else to go in the holidays and to be able to say to them this place is your home".
Victor De Oliveira
JCR Welfare Officer, 2024-25
"I’m so glad I applied to this amazing College, which has such a kind and tight-knit community of students from a vast array of different backgrounds.
As one of our two JCR Student Welfare Officers, I make up just a fraction of a system of welfare provisions which the College provides to ensure the wellbeing of our esteemed students is cared for and maintained. Organising fun events, hosting weekly Welfare Teas, communicating with Lincoln’s Welfare Coordinator, Lisa, and being a friendly point of contact for students in the JCR are our main roles and we will fulfil them to the best of our abilities. Large amounts of financial support is also available for undergraduates at Lincoln who qualify for it, which makes a huge difference to the opportunities which can be accessed by all of our students. This is just part of this College's long history and culture of giving back and looking out for the needs of others."
Beau Boka Batesa
"It has been lovely to know that I can be a peer supporter to students, but particularly students of colour and other marginalised backgrounds, to feel that little bit safer in Lincoln. On a College-wide level, we are in the process of enshrining initiatives that empower marginalised students so that they feel more settled in College, rather than left out."
