St Catharine’s College JCR

Welcome!

Welcome to the St. Catharine’s College JCR!

At Catz we have one of the largest JCR committees of all Oxbridge colleges! And with an officer elected specially to deal with a variety of concerns that may effect students; from Welfare to BAME to Environmental to LGBTQ+ to Catering, we hope that there is always someone on the JCR you can go to if you have any problems. If you do have any questions, do head over to the ‘Meet the Committee’ page and message the relevant Officer or leave us a comment on the anonymous tracker.

Our main goal is to represent the student body as best as possible and we love chatting with our members to improve their uni experience. Through the Meeting Suggestions form you can send in any question, concern, or query anonymously, and we will get our updated responses to you (if appropriate) on the JCR Tracker. 

The JCR runs meetings, led by myself, the President, every week or every other week on Sundays in term time. The meetings are open for anyone in Catz to attend and you can find the agenda and minutes from the meetings in your email. We especially encourage those thinking of serving on the next JCR committee to participate. Meetings take place in Old House (Chads), and will move to JCR common room after the committee elections in February. 

We want our community to have an enjoyable, relaxing and fulfilled time at Catz, being able to take advantage of all opportunities on offer so never hesitate to reach out and let us can do to make Catz feel like a home for all students, staff and fellows alike

Catz love, 

Poppy Jo Lee, JCR President (2023-2024) 

A Bit About Catz

St. Catharine’s College is a mid-sized College right in the heart of Cambridge, founded in 1473. Our JCR usually comprises about 450 individual undergraduate students, from first year to fourth years.

Catz is, first and foremost, a community, and there is no other College quite like us. Having our reputation established in Cambridge lore as “the Friendly College” is no coincidence!

We, the JCR Committee, work with the College staff - from accommodation to academic, catering to cleaning - to create and maintain an atmosphere of friendship and caring around our wonderful little College.

Catz carves out history and strives for inclusion: from being the first College to fly the Pride Flag from its flagpole, to being one of the 5 to spearhead “CARE+” policies for LGBT+ student and staff welfare, we are proud of our history and identity as a small but pioneering College!

What Do We Offer?

Sports and Societies are nuclei in the heart of the Catz community, and offer fantastic experiences and no small measure of excuses to meet up with new people and have a fantastic time. Whether you might like to try your hand at rowing, or if you’re already a veteran Channel swimmer, or you played hockey in school - there are clubs at Catz that are keen to get you along. (Usually, you don’t even need to be good - enthusiasm is more than enough!)

The array of Societies we have housed in the hallowed halls of Catz is similarly vast. If you’re keen on smoothies every now and then, or you’re a connoisseur of fine wine and cheeseboards, then there are societies for you! We’ve got everything from the green-fingered Gardening Society to the sonorous Shirley Society.

If you’re looking for careers advice, why not check out our Catz Careers Society and their termly events meeting, greeting, and hearing from alumni? If you’re a Natural Scientist (or you’re just a bit keen on science), head over to the John Ray Society. Geographers can join the Steer Society, and Medics CatzMedSoc, and other subject-specific societies exist too.

Where are we?

JCR Room, E staircase
St Catharine’s College
Trumpington Street
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
CB2 1RL

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