 The original aim of the Fund, as agreed by the Council, was to "assist the best overseas graduate students who obtain places to study in the University", regardless of financial capability and to remove any barriers between the best prospective graduate students and studying at the University of Oxford.However, in the year of the Clarendon Fund's 10th anniversary, from 1 September 2011, the ambit of the Fund and its scholarships would be expanded to include all nationalities and all fee statuses, as opposed to only candidates with overseas fee status.The Clarendon Fund is sponsored by Oxford University Press, from which it has received more than £37 million.