Oliver Rees is your average third year student. He is also a hopeless romantic. Over the course of Michaelmas term, he and a troupe of volunteers have been making the days of students across Cambridge.

It began last year, when Rees had the inspiration for anonymous pigeon hole notes, nicknamed ‘Anonymous Pigeon’. Next came ‘Library Whispers’, an exam term pick-me-up allowing users to send anonymous messages from the library.

Now, riding on the success of his previous two enterprises, Rees, nicknamed the “anonymous angel”, has embarked on his current mission ‘Beginning, Middle, End’,to inject romance into the city.

In early October, 800 romantic texts, ranging from a simple ‘I love you’ to the rather more racy (and therefore unprintable), were sent to students at random across the University. This was ‘Beginning’.

For the ‘Middle’ stage, 500 students awoke to find roses in their pigeon holes. This, Rees says, was harder than you might think: “One porter was being really difficult, so I threw the roses at him and ran away”.

The idea behind the project is to track the trajectory of a relationship, from flirtatious texting to more serious gestures of love, and finally to the complexities of an individual relationship. These Rees will explore in ‘End’.

For the final chapter, Rees has put together a play, which will be put on next week. In it, he portrays three real relationships. If you are dubious about the authenticity of Rees’ love stories, think again: he has sourced them from 150 ‘relationship moments’ submitted to him online over the summer. As he tells me emphatically, “I like seeing real things - I don’t care about the made up”.

With ‘End’, Rees hopes to make people “feel more optimistic about relationships, especially if they’ve had a tough ending recently”.

Indeed, ‘End’ gets its happily-ever-after: the project will culminate in two people being sent to Paris for free. To be in for a chance of winning the Paris trip, you need to book a ticket to ‘Beginning, Middle, End’.

Rees insists that it is not necessary to have followed the project’s journey from the very start to enjoy or participate in the play. ‘End’, Rees says, will “put the whole thing in context”.

So why is Rees doing all this? To set people up? Not quite: Rees tells me his intention is not to act as a dating agency, but “to create a service that adds some excitement or interest to people’s lives”.

He accepts that the project is “in a way a gimmick”, but insists that it is more than just a publicity stunt: Rees wants to encourage people to “do nice things for each other”, or even “to make those connections which are harder to find”.So here’s to love.

To book a ticket for the ‘End’ show, visit beginningmiddleend.co.uk/end