In January 2013 a generous alumnus donation enabled the appointment of a designated part-time Outreach Assistant with the aim of expanding the scope of the outreach work on offer across our Faculty. Since then we have been able to substantially increase our level of outreach, making visits to schools and other events, or hosting visits in our teaching labs, more than once a week. We estimate over 2,000 students and members of the public have accessed the resources and activities on offer since January 2013. Previous contacts and practices have also been maintained, including use of the Mobile Teaching Unit (MTU), a specially-equipped lorry that expands into a classroom (1)which has been used more than once a month for the past year. The MTU enables scientific equipment to be taken to schools, for example a vitalograph to measure lung function, ECG monitors and pulse oximeters to demonstrate the diving reflex, and reaction timers to compare the speed of visual and auditory reactions. Recently-developed sessions include an exploration of hearing and deafness and a practical session on size exclusion chromatography in the context of blood. The scope of visits to the University has also been widened to include topics such as electrophoresis. A number of visits have also covered more general issues such as ethics and careers.Our outreach work has involved school students and members of the public in a wide range of contexts including primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, a Brownies Group, public events, themed days such as Skirting Science (http://skirtingscience.wordpress.com/), Nailsworth Festival, Gloucestershire and University Open Days. It has been possible to provide free or reduced cost visits to a selected proportion of these groups through the receipt of Widening Participation (WP) funding from the University; eligibility for cost reduction is considered according to WP criteria and on the basis of the number of students claiming free school meals. This has allowed the widest range of students possible to access our resources and information.In order to disseminate information about the scope of activity on offer, the webpages for the outreach work in the Faculty (www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/outreach) have been updated and linked to the Faculty homepage for ease of access. Consideration is also being given to the role of these pages in providing information and advice across the broader context of outreach, including informing potential outreach practitioners (often undergraduate and postgraduate students).Similarly, a more rigorous evaluation and monitoring strategy has been developed in order to link our work to Widening Participation impact, to provide formative assessment to continually improve our work and to provide a record of its impact. This has included the use of audience response devices in outreach sessions.