It’s not the same on Zoom!
Trinity life is about more than just lectures – it’s what goes on as we gather at the chapel each morning, share lunch together, or sit around a campfire after dark. There’s a rhythm to life here that forms a deep community.
This is why we welcome our ‘dispersed’ learners who live elsewhere to come and stay for block weeks on campus, rather than just taking a day trip.
The culture in the campus community sets the tone for everybody’s experience of Trinity College – whether they study here and live out in Bristol, or just visit as a conference guest. It’s worth investing in.
Flexibility for the future
At the moment, our on-site accommodation (the Carter block) is old, dormitory-style and only suitable for single students. We welcome students with spouses and children (we even have our own nursery!), but they currently only have the option to live off-site in one of our houses in Bristol.
There are benefits to this too, but we’d love to have the flexibility to accommodate couples and families on site in the future if they would like to join the resident community. Our new housing will have a flexible layout making it suitable for single students, guests, groups or families of all sizes.
Another thing we’ve been able to do is to offer our accommodation, when it’s standing empty, to people in need in the city. We’ve been working with local partners like Bristol Hospitality Network to house asylum seekers where we can, both off and on site, and have loved welcoming them into this special community.
There is a growing housing crisis in Bristol and our desire is not to buy up more properties to house our students in the city, but to build our own sustainable accommodation that we can share when we have opportunity.