Account Statements

Most College account statements were emailed out to current students last week. These should include your course fee  (UCF), your termly rent costs, if living in College, and other sundry items.

Please arrange payment promptly.

Please contact the Finance team for queries regarding your bill or if you have not received a College account statement yet:

For all undergraduate account queries

For all postgraduate account queries

From the College Nurse

Are you a new student wondering if your GP registration at Newnham Walk surgery is complete?

Do not wait for an email from Newnham Walk surgery. Instead, if you have yet to do so, send the documents below to nwsregistrations@nhs.net This will allow them to complete your registration.

If you have yet to do so, please send them a:

• copy of photo ID, e.g. passport or driving licence
• copy of proof of address, e.g. proof of College residency or utility bill or bank statement

Proof of College residency can simply be a copy of the email sent from Jo Fisher, Wolfson Accommodation Manager, on receipt of your signed licence agreement. This has been clarified with both the Wolfson Accommodation Manager and the Newnham Walk surgery Office Manager.

Alternatively, you can request a letter from the Wolfson Tutorial Office

Academic Skills Workshops

What's On?

Shut Up and Write session on 19 Oct. at 09.45

WolfWorks Plus: Managing your time to increase productivity on 21 Oct. at 20.00

WolfWorks for new undergraduates: Getting started on a piece of work on 22 Oct at 20.00

More Information

Any Questions?

Please get in touch with Meg or Laura if you’d like to discuss anything to do with using the library or developing your academic skills.

Vacation Project Grant

Applications are now open. 
Deadline to apply: 02 Nov. for projects in December and January

Language Study Grants

Study Grants for Language Courses at the University of Cambridge Language Centre

How it works:

• Students register and pay for the course of their choice, attend weekly classes, complete assignments and sit exams as required.
• After successfully completing the course, students submit the completion certificate and breakdown of marks to the Student Finance Officer.
• A payment for 50% of the total course cost will then be credited to the student's College account. 

Important: Please check College website for terms and conditions 

Click is a Trick, not Treat

Avoid phishing scams this Halloween by staying alert to emails asking for your personal details. If you do click on a link or have opened an attachment in a suspicious email, contact helpdesk@wolfson.cam.ac.uk

For information on a recent tax scam including what to look out for and how to avoid it please click here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/hmrc-urges-universities-to-warn-new-students-of-tax-scams-danger

Please make sure that your anti-virus software is up to date. 
The University offers McAfee Endpoint Security for free, so please take advantage of this and perform a full system scan too.

Moving Office 

As of 22 Oct. the Tutorial Office will move from the Karen Spärck Jones Room to the first floor in Bredon House.

The Tutorial Office will be open for students with pre-booked appointments only (in-person and online). In the first instance contact should be made by email or telephone. Please see contact details at the bottom of this Bulletin.

Tutorial Office opening hours from 22 Oct:
Monday-Friday, 09.00-17.00

Outreach and Student Recruitment Officer, Hannah Elkington, is starting a new volunteer team of Wolfson Ambassadors

Can you be the friendly face of the College at events such as Open Days and Offer Holders days?

Take part in a Q&A panel or give a presentation about your experiences

This is a flexible, low time commitment, volunteer opportunity that fits around your schedule, is good fun, useful for your CV and rewarded with free food (and a warm feeling inside). We need to represent a wide cross section of the Wolfson community – Undergraduate, Postgraduate, international, home student and different subject areas.

The next opportunities are to help with the Virtual Postgraduate Open Days on 05 Nov, and we are also looking for Undergraduates to be mentors in the SU Shadowing scheme.

Apply now or email Hannah if you want more details.

Legionella Water Works

Weekly Works:

The maintenance department undertakes essential works, one of which is to flush the water systems in all unused rooms weekly on Mondays. We are following all current government guidelines on face masks and social distancing. For those in residence this is a polite notice to let you know why we are accessing rooms. Thank you for your co-operation.

Monthly Works:

Wolfson College has employed Jordan Environmental to undertake Legionella water testing and sampling to all buildings, access to rooms ( Not quarantined or self-isolating ) will be needed and you will be emailed when this testing takes place. Jordan Environmental will follow the College risk assessment and the current Government guidelines on social distancing whilst this work takes place.

Door Replacement

Following a fire risk assessment undertaken by Cromwell Fire we have commissioned Bayard Construction to replace doors around College.

Stage 1 took place from 15 Sept-7 Oct. Stage 2 will be decoration of the new doors undertaken by the Wolfson College Decorators (David and Dean) and arranged through David Rivers via email.

Bayard Construction and the College staff will adhere to government guidelines on face masks and social distancing.

Current Heating Times

The current heating times are 07.00-10.00 and 18.00-23.00. The Domestic Bursar, Darren Smith, will update you throughout the year when these times change.