Our Aims

• The immediate aim in the 2009/10 academic year was to raise £250k. In the event over £500k was donated.
• In 5 years, by 2013/14, we aim to have raised £4.25m
• It is the School’s longer term aim to establish a Bursary Fund of £13 million in the next 10 years and to be able to offer the equivalent of 3 fully funded places per year group at the School.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Background

• The 2009/10 academic year marks the 125th Anniversary of the founding of St Swithun’s School.
• The Bramston Bursary Fund, created to honour Miss Anna Bramston, was launched on Speech Day 2009 to provide an accessible education for the wider community and to secure the future for St Swithun’s School
• The School Council has already established a bursary fund of £1m and is committed to continue to build on this each year, whilst also continuing to invest in inspiring teaching staff and major building projects from fee income alone, without asking for additional support from former pupils, past or current parents.
• We remain proud of the fact that the School lives within its fee income and that we have very rarely gone out to appeal for any of our significant building projects, in spite of the fact that St Swithun’s has never benefited from the endowments or large investments that other schools enjoy.
  
  

How will bursaries be allocated?

St Swithun’s is already playing a full part in the wider community and has good links with local maintained schools through which we will raise awareness of our bursaries.

In order to be considered for the award of a bursary, candidates will be assessed by the Headmistress in the same way as other pupils seeking entry to the School and will need to meet the same academic standards. Parents of applicants will also be subject to annual means-testing.