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Annual Fund
Achieves Record
Income
This year’s annual fund has exceeded
all expectations raising over £90,000 by
the end of the Summer term. This is the
highest total achieved since the inception of
the fund four years ago and is a wonderful
testament to the generosity of the School’s
close-knit community who, even in these
less than certain economic times, have
shown amazing support.
40% of the funds raised were in support
of the Chapel window scheme and we
are now very close to our appeal total.
20% of the funds were donated to the
School to use them where it needs them
most (unrestricted funds) and other
areas supported included boarding, the
archives, biology, bursaries, CCF, Duke
of Edinburgh Award Scheme, ICT, music,
careers, rowing and sport.
The funds donated to specific areas will be
allocated to the appropriate departments
at the end of the School’s financial year
in August and we will report on how
those have been spent at a later date.
Unrestricted funds are now allocated by
a Development Fund Committee, which
considers requests from all areas of the
School based on the criteria that they will
provide exceptional added value to the
boys and that the items cannot be funded
from within existing departmental budgets.
The approved requests included:
• CCF and Duke of Edinburgh Awards
Scheme – a trailer for kit ensuring double
the number of boys can travel on trips
• Chinese – a high-definition multimedia
document camera
• Classics - an Oxford Latin Dictionary and
Greek Lexicon
• Economics – a high definition webcam
• Modern Foreign Languages –
digital video recorders for motivating
boys to develop oral work
• Physics – a high-resolution digital
spectrometer to enhance teaching and
learning about spectroscopy
• Shooting – electronic targets and scopes
allowing more time for activity
• Rugby – a match scoreboard and a
squat rack for training (also benefits
other sports)
• Art – a tabletop potters’ wheel
• English – funding for visiting speakers
and a writer-in-residence
• Grounds – wooden benches for the
Jekyll garden providing quiet areas
for boys.
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