Welcome to the Balliol MCR.

Our MCR (or Middle Common Room) is Balliol's graduate student body, life in which centres around Holywell Manor. Some 10 minutes walk from the main College, our Manor complex houses most of Balliol's current graduates and boasts perhaps the University's best graduate experience.

Living together offers us the chance to inhabit the kind of community most Colleges dream of. We do our bit to help this along with organised social events, sporting fixtures etc., but there is usually some sort of spontaneous group activity happening somewhere. The MCR provides a perpetual source of friendship, amusement and good conversation, featuring the sort of abundant opportunities for intellectual stimulation and growth that one would expect of a community of scholars – and especially of Balliol.

The Manor itself is a special place. It's not everyday most of us can hope to walk around a building which has appeared on maps since the 16 th Century. As is the case anywhere, however, it is the people that make a place what it is. Here we are quite spoilt. The MCR is really a community of friends. If you are planning on joining us we look forward very much to welcoming you soon.

Best Wishes,

Matt
MCR President
matthew.penfold@balliol.ox.ac.uk