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In 1972 the Warwick Student Union published a cookbook called Simple Scoff. It consisted of recipes submitted by students, along with a few contributions from academic staff and members of the university administration. The wife of the then-Vice Chancellor, Doris Butterworth, wrote a prologue and also contributed a recipe for paella. Other notable recipes include ‘Spaghetti a la Stoneleigh’, ‘Vegetable Splodge’ and a flow-chart explaining how to cook potatoes in a pressure cooker.

Warwick’s 50th anniversary is a perfect occasion to publish a new edition. To do this, we need recipes! These can be extremely simple, or as complex as you like—the cookbook should reflect what today’s Warwick community actually cooks.

Students from the University of Warwick have taken part in 1202 hours of voluntary work for Student Volunteering Week to complete their biggest challenge yet in this special 50th Anniversary year.

The ‘Every Hour Counts’ themed series of events were completed by 521 students, in addition to their regular weekly volunteering activities.

The voluntary work included ‘The Big Canal Clean Up’, where students assisted the Canal and River Trust and the Inland Waterways Association to clean out rubbish from the Grand Union Canal in Leamington Spa. In addition to regular litter students removed shopping trolleys, bicycles and even a motorbike.

Warwick Volunteers Manager Helen Blunt said, “Student Volunteering Week is the perfect opportunity to highlight the great work that our students do as volunteers, alongside their academic studies.

‘Our student members volunteer in more than 50 local schools, and with a wide range of community partners. Our students can – and do add real value to our local community.”

Volunteers held an activity day at Kenilworth Phab Club, and transformed the After School Club room at Grangehurst Primary School in Coventry. They also hosted a party where they socialised with people living at the Willowbrook Residential Home in Canley.

Warwick Volunteers Student Executive Committee member Daisy-Ann Afrifa added, ‘Volunteering has many benefits; the activities that we partake in and the relationships that we form have been inspiring as well as humbling.’

On Friday 13th March and Saturday 14th March over 60 people attended the planting of the new Jam Grove outside the Centre of Lifelong Learning in Westwood. The Vice Chancellor planted the first tree then staff, students and local residents helped to plant various edible trees and shrubs including quince, plum, gooseberry and rhubarb.

Throughout 2015, the Institute of Advanced Study is co-ordinating the ‘Voices of the University’ oral history project. This ambitious project marks the fiftieth anniversary of the university by interviewing those who have studied, worked or lived near to the university since 1965.

In this ‘Voices of the University’ interview with Dr Andrew Hammond, Councillor Michael Coker describes growing up on the farmland where the University of Warwick was later built. Michael describes the famous Shire horse farm at Tocil Farm and being evacuated into the countryside during the Second World War and the bombing of Coventry in 1940.

Listen to the full interview here.

Drop by the Centre for Lifelong Learning on 13 and 14 March to help change the face of our campus in the first of a series of garden projects; planting a jam grove.

The idea came from within Warwick, after a range of workshops, events and consultations identified a strong desire among our community to make our campus more inviting, engaging, sustainable and productive. From this, the idea of a series of garden projects has developed starting with an accessible garden of fruit trees and berries outside the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Westwood.

Everyone is welcome to join the Vice-Chancellor and Lady Thrift on Friday 13 March, 3.30-5.30pm, to plant the trees, enjoy some tea and cake and share your ideas for future projects. There will be another chance to get involved at the planting session of the shrubs on Saturday 14 March at 10.30-12pm.

The garden will have seating and be accessible to all. The area can be used for informal and formal meetings and teaching as well as being a place to relax, to help out with maintaining the space and, in the years to come, to help yourselves to fruit.

Please RSVP to J.Kilgallon@warwick.ac.uk or call 02476 524529 to help her anticipate numbers.