Roma Numismatics Supports

The Roman Provincial Coinage Project is one of the most important research projects in numismatics. It embodies a new conception of Roman coinage and presents for the first time an authoritative account of the coins minted in the provinces of the empire and shows how they can be regarded as an integral part of the coinage minted under the Roman emperors.

Based in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, RPC online is an essential free reference for numismatists, collectors, dealers and all those with an interest in the Roman Empire. The project's website (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk) currently includes more than 400,000 coins from over 50,000 coin types. Information on the website is based on the most important collections in the world and the published material. The website also includes information regularly submitted by scholars, researchers and collectors from all over the world.

Cancer Research UK is the world's largest cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Our vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured, from the most common types to those that affect just a few people.

Cancer poses a huge and growing challenge with the number of people around the world who receive a diagnosis each year expected to rise dramatically, from 15 million in 2015 to 24 million in 2035.

In the 1970's less than a quarter of people in the UK with cancer Survived but over the last 40 years, survival has doubled- today half will survive. Our ambition is to accelerate progress and, by 2034, see three-quarters of people surviving the disease for 10 years or more.

Within the last 40 years Cancer Research UK's research has played a role in developing 8 of the world's top 10 cancer drugs, have helped double breast cancer survival and been a key player in the development of radiotherapy, which now benefits more than 130,000 patients every year in the UK.

We're pioneering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, as well as finding ways to optimise treatment. The intrastate we have created for scientists enables world class research, and we engage and empower patients, policy makers and the public to make sure advances in research have a positive impact.

None of our life-saving work would be possible without the strength of our fundraising and our outstanding people- our supporters, volunteers, staff and people affected by cancer.

Bumblebees are clever and efficient pollinators who play a key role in producing much of the food that we eat. The UK's insect pollinators are estimated to contribute £690 million/year to our food economy (insect pollination of Cox & Gala apples alone contributes £37 million) and means that if we don't support our native bumblebee species, the extremely high cost of pollination by other means could considerably increase the cost of fruit and vegetables.

Bumblebees also pollinate many garden and wild flowers - without which, these plants would not produce seeds. As these plants help form the basis of complex food chains, it is easy to imagine how other wildlife such as other insects, birds and small mammals would all suffer too, if our bumblebees disappeared.

Over the past century, the story of bumblebees is worrying, with two species becoming extinct and of the 24-remaining species, eight (a third of the remaining species) are currently listed on at least one of the English, Welsh and Scottish conservation Priority Species lists due to their large-scale declines in distribution and numbers. These declines have occurred mainly because of large-scale changes agricultural practice, development and to the way our countryside is managed. Since the late 1930's we have lost 97% of our wildflower meadows in the UK, so the Bumblebee Conservation Trust are working hard to support our bumblebees.

In 2010 Dr Peter Jones and Jeannie Cohen, alarmed by the decline in the teaching of classics in state schools, founded Classics for All. The purpose of the charity is to support primary and secondary state schools to offer Latin, Ancient Greek, classical civilisation and ancient history. We raise funds from individuals, trusts and foundations to offer free support to state schools. Ten years on our turnover has grown from £150k to £650k as a result of the demand from state school pupils and teachers who show an unrelenting appetite for classics.

We now support 100 new schools each year and a further 100 schools who require additional help to expand their classics offer. In only 10 years, Classics for All has trained over 2,000 teachers and introduced classics to over 50,000 pupils in 900 primary and secondary schools in the UK. Over 40% of schools we support have above national average numbers of pupils eligible for Free School Meals and Pupil Premium funding. We aim to raise the aspirations and achievements of ALL young people through learning about the classical world. With the help of our donors we aim to make a significant change in the ability of state schools to enrich young people's lives.