Project Update – Blackfriars Student Dining and Café
19th March 2025
There is much going on behind the scenes as we develop our project for a joint public café / student dining facility at the Blackfriars Annexe.
Al Fresco Dining
A new pavement extension is currently being built by the local council outside the Blackfriars annexe building as part of plans for making this area of Oxford more attractive for pedestrians.
This will provide a broad expanse of pavement outside of our café, complete with a new flowerbed, and allowing our café potentially to offer more external seating in this lovely spot, looking across to the medieval St Giles church and the tall trees in its churchyard.
Progress of the Project
We are grateful to our donors for their many gifts to the project, which are thankfully still arriving, and for their patience with our progress as it has proven necessary to adjust the architectural designs in order to keep within budget, requiring additional iterations of drawings and costings.
The good news is that we are making progress and will soon have our final set of drawings, full costings, and a contractor ready to undertake the building works. We will announce these – and our chosen name – in due course.
Don’t Miss Out – Donate Today
If you have not yet donated, and are thinking of doing so, we offer these benefits:
- Donors of £500 or more will be offered a 10% discount card for the Café.
- Donors of £2,000 or more will also be invited to an exclusive special benefactors event in the new Café, hosted by the Regent of Blackfriars.
- Key Donors of £10,000 or more can be honoured by inclusion on a donor board within the Café if they so wish; alternatively, donors can remain anonymous, or make in memoriam donations to honour departed friends or family members.
Blackfriars Alumni – Double your money!
Alumni of Blackfriars (and their friends and family) still have the opportunity to have their gift matched, pound for pound, to double the size of their donation! Thanks to a generous benefactor, we can offer this on the next £2,000 of gifts we receive from alumni and their associates – just type ALUMNI in the comment box when you make your gift! Don’t miss out – donate today! US donors – we can offer tax-deductible giving. Follow the link below for instructions.