Vet Fund
The Vet Fund
The University of Glasgow's School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine is firmly established as a world renowned centre for education, research and clinical studies.
Our School brings together a wealth of internationally leading researchers, clinicians, educators and facilities to form an international powerhouse for One Health research and discovery science. We address some of the most important global challenges that face our planet including animal health, welfare and disease, biodiversity loss, animal infectious disease and zoonosis, ecosystem deterioration, antimicrobial resistance and food security. A fundamental component of our multidisciplinary work is to understand how environmental change amplifies these global challenges and how they in turn impact health inequalities, human health and socioeconomics.
We are dedicated to delivering educational programmes that foster the next successful generation of scientists and veterinary surgeons. This is achieved successfully through a multidisciplinary clinical veterinary, educational and research body with a key strength of combining methods and insights across a variety of academic disciplines. We are unique in the UK in our ability to link research on animal health, production and welfare with ecological and evolutionary approaches.
Your support will enable us to continue growing and addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our global community, driving innovation and pioneering solutions that benefit both people and animals alike.
The James Herriot Scholarship Fund in Veterinary Medicine
Gifts will enable us to award scholarships to excellent undergraduate and postgraduate veterinary students who, through financial constraints, may otherwise not be able to study at Glasgow. These scholarships will be crucial in providing opportunity to the most promising individuals from home and around the world, helping us to develop the academic leaders of the future and to train a new generation equipped to tackle future global challenges in animal health and welfare.
The University recognises all gifts by printing your name, surname and any professional titles in our annual supporter magazine. If you wish to remain anonymous, please make sure this is indicated.
Full scholarships are particularly prized, helping to bring the very best and brightest to Glasgow. Please contact us if you would like to fund and name a full scholarship.
The Small Animal Hospital Fund
The Hospital Fund enables our donors to support the work of the Small Animal Hospital at the University of Glasgow. Caring for animals has always been at the core of the work of the Vet School.
Your gift to our Hospital Fund will help us continue to provide outstanding care and treatment to your pets by ensuring we can purchase the most advanced equipment meaning better and more advanced treatment. Your gift will also support us in attracting the best staff and the brightest and best students, our vets of tomorrow, who will be training in the most advanced surroundings with access to some of the best specialist vets in their field.
Find out more about the Small Animal Hospital
Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare
The Equine Fund enables our donors to support the work of the Weipers Centre for Equine Welfare at the University of Glasgow. The Weipers Centre offers the highest standards of veterinary care through the expertise of its internationally recognised staff and the most advanced diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical techniques for horses and ponies.
Your gift to our Weipers Equine Fund will help purchase up to date equipment allowing us to provide the best possible care and treatment for the horses, ponies and donkeys that come to us for help. Your gift will also help us support our staff and our students through our commitment to excellence and innovation in equine education.
Veterinary research
Glasgow has a long-held and outstanding international reputation in veterinary research, which continues to this day.
Staff in the School of Veterinary Medicine lead portfolios of clinical veterinary research within the School's small animal and large animal (equine and production animal) practices, which complements our veterinary bioscience research and feeds into the world class teaching provided by the School.
By supporting Veterinary Research at Glasgow, you can help us to remain at the forefront of Veterinary Medicine, help with ground breaking research or even commemorate the life of a much loved pet.
Your gift will help us to support new generations of vets and the animals in their care and to contribute to pioneering future standards in animal treatment and welfare.
The Jimmy Armour Student Support Fund
The Jimmy Armour Student Support Fund will provide vital support to cover the costs associated with Extra Mural Studies (EMS), or ‘Seeing Practice’ as it was known, for our undergraduate Vet students. The fund will benefit Vet students who are facing difficulty and would otherwise struggle to complete their EMS.
Over the course of their degrees, our Vet students must undertake 38 weeks of placement in total. However, students from deprived backgrounds can struggle to take advantage of placement opportunities far from Glasgow as these are usually unpaid, without accommodation and require time away from any part-time jobs they may depend on.