Bolton School - Giving Report 2021/22

A School To Be Proud Of

The 2021-22 academic year was one of positivity and progress for the Bolton School Foundation, despite the economic and political turbulence.

The changes to our structure in October 2021 – establishing the new role of Head of Foundation and creating the new Primary Division – have already resulted in much progress across all parts of the Foundation. In February 2022, the Governing Body was delighted to confirm the appointments of Lynne Kyle as Head of Girls’ Division and Nic Ford as Head of Boys’ Division. The summer then brought two sets of successful GCSE and A Level results followed by record admission levels in both Senior Schools for the new school year. As we emerged from the shadow of the pandemic, there was much of which our School community should be proud.

The portrayal of independent schools which now prevails in much of the press – as bastions of privilege serving only a small segment of society – is unrecognisable as a description of Bolton School. Through our substantial bursary scheme and extensive partnership and outreach work, we serve our local community wholeheartedly and have a pupil body which is economically and socially diverse. This work is fundamental to the national renown in which the Foundation is held, ensuring that we continue to be seen as a force for positive change in Bolton and beyond.

We know this view of the Foundation is shared by our whole community and nowhere is this more evident than in the generosity of our supporters. During the 2021-22 academic year, an outstanding £1.7m was given in support of the bursary scheme, with a further £140,000 donated for hardship funding and £111,000 for extra-curricular support for bursary pupils, university scholarships for recent leavers and the redevelopment of the Leverhulme Pavilion facilities. This staggering generosity reveals the depth of our supporters’ confidence in the work of the Bolton School Foundation and their understanding of the transformational impact this will have on the young people who benefit from it.

Despite the continuing global economic uncertainty, the Governing Body’s commitment to ensuring that any young person who has the potential and would thrive here should have the opportunity to do so, regardless of their family’s circumstances, is steadfast. It remains our ambition that by 2030 our bursary

scheme will have expanded to reach the point where one in three pupils in the Boys’ and Girls’ Divisions will receive bursary funding. This goal is hugely stretching and will, undoubtedly, become ever more so in the coming years but, with the continued support of our donors, we have every confidence it will be achieved.

With this ambition in mind, the Governing Body is constantly mindful of the political context in which the Foundation operates and of the potential implications of legislative changes to the charitable status of independent schools which are currently being mooted. We are, as you would expect, preparing carefully – as far as we are able – for the impact a change of government would have upon the Foundation’s finances, both immediately and in the medium to long-term. The Bolton School Bursary Foundation, the new charity established in 2022 to raise, hold and grant bursary funds in the future, is a key part of this planning. We are determined to do all we can to ensure that we are able to continue the role of creating social mobility for the next generations of young people living locally. Whilst nothing is certain, by securing the funds so generously given by our supporters over the past 25 years, we hope to maximise their future growth and ensure that this is the case.

On behalf of the Governing Body, staff and pupils of the Bolton School Foundation, thank you for your support during the last academic year. Whether your generosity enabled the expansion of our bursary scheme, provided hardship funding for families in financial distress or ensured a level playing field for our bursary pupils’ participation in trips and extra-curricular activities, every gift the Foundation received has benefited both individual students’ lives and the wider school community. I hope you enjoy reading of the difference your support has made to the Foundation during the past year – it truly is deeply appreciated by everyone here on Chorley New Road.

With all best wishes for the year ahead.

Ian Riley Chair of the Bolton School Governing Body

The Power of a Bursary Place

The impact of our supporters’ generosity on the lives of our bursary recipients is incalculable.

Last year, your generous support provided 50 bright, talented members of the Class of 2022 with the opportunity to pursue their ambitions and realise their dreams.

In the A Level results published in the summer of 2022, 68% of those bursary recipients achieved grades A*-B, with 36% of those pupils securing grades A*-A.

37 bursary recipients from the Class of 2022 left the School to study at university, with 24 pupils taking up a place at one of the prestigious Russell Group universities, including Oxbridge.

“Coming from one of the worst schools in one of the worst areas of Bolton, and from a lower income family where no one had completed college or sixth form before, I cannot put into words the joy I felt on being accepted into such a prestigious school. Without the bursary, none of this would be possible. I cannot thank the School, and the donors that make this possible, enough for their continued support.”

Boys’ Division Bursary Recipient, Class of 2022

Your Support

During the 2021-22 academic year, the School community made pledges and gifts totaling £1.96 million in support of the School and its pupils.

£1.71 million was given in support of the Bolton School Bursary Fund, including £51,000 donated by 201 families of the departing Class of 2022, who gifted their child’s deposit to the Bursary Fund, and a further £778,000 –enough to provide three full-fee bursary places at the School in perpetuity – bequeathed by three Alumni who had remembered the School in their wills.

As a result of this exceptional generosity, last year the School spent £3.1m on means-tested bursary assistance supporting 329 – one in five – pupils across the two Senior Schools.

A further £140,000 was donated by a charitable trust to provide hardship funding for pupils whose families were facing financial challenge, enabling 15 pupils to continue their studies at the School, whilst £111,000 was donated to support the provision of extra-curricular and uniform and ancillary costs for bursary recipients, for academic prizes in the two Divisions, to provide university scholarships for recent leavers, and for the redevelopment of facilities. This included a £50,000 gift donated to fund the refurbishment of the facilities at the Leverhulme Pavilion, and £13,000 in bequests left by an Old Boy, to support football facilities in the Boys’ Division, and by a former member of staff in the Girls’ Division, to support extramural activities in English Language, respectively.

The Chance to Flourish

In April 2022, the School was honoured to celebrate a record donation to the Bursary Fund from Old Boy John Roberts (Class of 1992) and his wife, Sally.

John and Sally’s donation has facilitated a new outreach partnership – Flourish – between Bolton School and the youth charity OnSide, which aims to promote social mobility by encouraging a wider range of applications to the School’s bursary scheme from young people who might otherwise never even have heard of Bolton School, nor understood that they might thrive here.

The donation will support 14 pupils with means-tested bursaries, funding two Year 7 pupils a year for seven years through to completion of their A Level studies at the School. These bursaries are available for young people who are members of OnSide Youth Zones, to support their education and cover any additional expenses to ensure they benefit from all the opportunities the School has to offer.

As a result of a pilot scheme which ran during the Autumn Term 2021, in September 2022 three pupils joined Year 7 of the Girls’ Division, all of whom have already thrown themselves into School life wholeheartedly.

“Sally and I know that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. Bursaries are a brilliant way to level this up. Bolton School is an amazing place and we want young people from OnSide to have the same fantastic experience there as I did. We’re extremely proud of the new pupils and look forward to following their progress.”

John Roberts

Using Your Donations Responsibly Contact Us

We are privileged to receive the generous support of so many members of the Bolton School community, and take our responsibilities in the stewardship and management of these gifts seriously:

• Every donation we receive goes directly to support the bursary scheme or to the purpose directed by the donor - all costs associated with the running of the Development Office are borne entirely by the School;

• Outside School hours, we use our buildings and facilities to generate income, with the annual profits from the School’s trading arm, BSSL, and the School’s Nursery gifted back to School to support our bursary scheme;

• The bursary funds held by the School are managed with care by the Governing Body’s Investment Committee to ensure investment gains are maximised whilst safely preserving the capital for the future;

• The School’s Clerk and Treasurer applies a strict formula to calculate the total annual funds available to spend on bursaries, in order to preserve and grow the value of the School’s bursary funds in an endowment style, thus ensuring financial support remains available to both current and future pupils;

• All bursaries are entirely means-tested, awarded via a transparent and rigorous allocations process designed to ensure that financial support reaches those who are the most deserving of it. This allocations process, which includes detailed financial checks and individual interviews, is reviewed annually, and all bursary applications are renewed entirely at the end of Year 11, before a child’s admission to the Sixth Form.

The Development Office is responsible for all fundraising activity in support of the Bolton School Foundation. If you would like to make a gift to support the School’s bursary scheme, or are considering remembering the School in your will, please contact Laura Firth, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, on 01204 434718, or at development@boltonschool.org, who will be happy to discuss with you, in confidence, how you might choose to support the School.

THANK YOU

Thank You

The School is sincerely grateful to all of those donors who have offered their financial support to the Foundation during the past academic year:

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Dr and Mrs S Ahmed

Mr Munir and Mrs Tayyaba Ahmed

Mr Brian and The Late Mrs Shirley Aldred

Mr Stephen Aldred

Mr and Mrs A Ali

Mr Craig Allen

Mr and Mrs S Amari

Mr John Anderson

Mrs Julie Andrews

AO Retail Ltd

Dr S and Dr M Arya

Mr and Mrs M Ashcroft

Mr Phillip Ashton

Mr Martin P Ashton

Mr Graham Ashurst

Mr David Aspinall

Mr David Astle

The Late Mrs Margaret Astley (In Memory of The Late Mr Hugh Astley)

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Mr and Mrs T Asumu Anonymous

Mr and Mrs L Baby

Mr L Backhouse

Mrs S Joy Bailey

Lady Bain (Gwynneth Vickers)

Mr and Mrs S Baker

Mr and Mrs A Baker

Ms Sarah Ball

Mr and Mrs M Bamford

Mr and Mrs J Barker-Smith

Dr and Mrs A Basu

Mr and Mrs D Battersby

Mr Ian Beattie

Mr Derek Beaumont

Mrs H Patricia Bellis

Mr Nicholas Bennett

Dr Peter H Bennett

Miss K Benson

Mr and Mrs J Bentham

Mr A and Miss V Bentley

Mr Jonathan Bergwerk

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Mr and Mrs H Bhutawala

Mr Mian Bibi and Mrs S Satter

Mr Norman and The Late Mrs Audrey Binks

Ms E C Birkett

Mrs Lesley Birtwistle

Mr and Mrs M Birtwistle

The Late Mrs Florence Bishop (née Webster)

The Late Mr Peter Bishop

Mr Mark Bisson

Mr and Mrs James Blackhurst

Mr Alan Blenkinship

Mrs Sandra Bloch

Dr K Bodger and Dr J A Palin

Mr Ian and Mrs Suzanne Bolton

Mr and Mrs Bolton

Mr

Professor Joan Givner (née Short)

Miss Jane Glass

Mr David Glassman

Mr J Glynn and Dr C Glynn-Hunt

Mr and Mrs Godwin

Mrs Susan Gold (In Memory of The Late Mr Roger Mangnall)

Mr and Mrs J Goloba

Mr J Roger Gould

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Mr Stephen Greenhalgh

Mr and Mrs Greenwood

Mr Paul Greenwood

Mr Benjamin Griffiths

Mr Michael and Mrs Karen Griffiths

Mrs Tracy Grime (née Perry)

Miss Nicola Grinstead

Mr Sarfraz and Mrs Hafsha Hafeji

Mr Matthew Haisley

Mr Didier and Mrs Amanda Halford

Dr Abid and Mrs Aisha Hamid

Mr Alexander Hamilton

Mr and Mrs D M Hammond

Mr L Neil Hampshire

Mr Wei Han and Ms Anika Bazaerbieke

Dr Jeremy and Dr Gillian Hann

Mr and Mrs N A Hansford

Mr Colin Harding Professor David Hargreaves

Dr Saira and Mr Duncan Harkness

Mr Harry and Mrs Helen Harper

Mr Mark and Mrs Julie Harper

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Mrs Judith Harrop

Miss Lucy Harvey

Mr Grahame Harwood

Mr Abid and Mrs Anisa Hasan

Mr Amim Hasan

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Mrs Eileen Haslett

Mr Ali Hassan and Mrs Asha Noor

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Dr Ian Hawkins

Mr Robert Haworth

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Mr David Heale

Mr Nasser and Mrs Hafida Herez

Dr Annabel Hesford

Mr Andrew Heyes

Ms Judith Hibbert Anonymous

Dr N Higham and Dr F Tisseur

Mr Robin and Mrs Anna Hill

Mr Geoffrey Hind

Mr J Trevor Holden

Miss Pamela Holer

Mrs Elaine Holland (née Angus)

Mr Andrew Holland

Mr Michael Holmes Professor R Malcolm Horner Mrs Marjorie Horrell

Mr Stefan Horsman

Mr Vijaya Hosahalli Kempanna and Mrs Suma Kumar

Mr David and Mrs C Houghton

Mrs Jean Howarth

Dr Kathleen Howarth

Mr Antony Howcroft

Mr Malcolm Howe

Mr David and Mrs K

Mr Charles and Mrs Amanda Nuttall

Mr David Nuttall

Mr Charles Ogden

The Old Boltonians’ Lodge

Reverend S Margaret Oldroyd

Mr D Openshaw

Mr James O’Reilly

Mr A Owens

Mr Anthony Page

Mr Andrew and Mrs Karen Palmer

Mr and Mrs Pan

Miss E Jane Panton

Dr Julie Papleacos

Mr G and Mrs V Parikh

Mr John Parker

Mr R Parmar and Dr H Lewis-Parmar

Mr M A Parry and Ms M Dixon

Mr I A M Patel and Mrs N Ahmed

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Dr Jocelyn Patel

Mr Maksud and Mrs Nasreen Patel

Mr Mayoor Patel

Mr Mohammed and Mrs Munira Patel

Mr and Mrs Y Patel

Mr A and Mrs Gill Paterson

Mrs Diana Pennington (née Brown)

Mr Paul Pennington

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Mrs Patricia Philp

Mr S and Mrs J Phillips

Commander David Pickup

Dr David Picton

Mr Mark C and Mrs Joanne E Platt

Dr Daniel and Mrs A Pope

Porsche Bolton

Mr and Mrs D M Porter

Dr Elizabeth Poskitt

Mr Mark and Mrs Karen Preston

Dr Michael and Mrs Patricia Priestley

Mr Robert Prill

Mr Alan Prince

Mr David Probett

Profesora Irvine - Spanish Language Consultancy

Mr Nadarajah and Mrs Logithaverny

Puveenthirarajan

Dr and Mrs A Ramadan

Mr Arif and Dr Nadia Rattoo

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Mr Shana-E-Raza Razvi and Mrs Najma Raza

Dr Yusra Razzaq

Miss Jane Redford

Regency Estates

Mr Ross and Mrs Fabienne Reilly

Dr Zahid Riaz and Dr Rubeena Razzaq

Mrs Gill Richards

Mr Peter Richards

Mr Alan Richardson, OBE Anonymous

Mrs Kathleen Ricketts (née Waddicar)

Mr Philip and Mrs Sarah Riding

Mr John Rigby

Mr Ian Riley

Ms Nicola Riley

Mr Rimmer and Miss Hunt

Mrs Vivien Rink

Mr John and Mrs Sally Roberts

Mr and Mrs C Roberts

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Mrs Marjorie Rothera

Dr Derek Rothwell

Mr Mohammed Sardar and Mrs Vahida Patel

Mr Thomas Sawbridge

Mrs Sheila Sawyer

Mr J Norman Scott

Mr and Mrs A Seddon

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Mr David Sellwood

Dr Samarnath and Mrs Kamalika Sen

Mr Kallol Sen

Dr Ishtiyaq and Mrs Naureen Shaikh

Mr David Shaw

Mr Michael Shaw

Mr Robert Shipperbottom

Dr David Short

Mr Alan and Mrs Jade Shum

Mr Rob and Mrs Yvonne Shum

Mr John Shuttleworth

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Professor Nigel Slater

Slater’s Menswear

Mr Roger Smith Mr Duncan Smith

Mr F Sotgiu and Mrs L Thomas

The Late Mrs M Ann Sparrow (née Berry)

Mr James P Speak

Mrs B Speakman

The Late Mr Speakman

The Late Dr David Speirs

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Mr Dominic and Dr Lisa Sprott

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Dr J Mike Stansbie

Mr and Mrs M Stenton

Mr P M J and Mrs S Stephenson

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Professor Malcolm Stevens, OBE FRS and Mrs Valerie Stevens

Mr David Stewart

Mr Eric Stones

Mr Mark Stringfellow

Mr Richard Stubbs and Mrs C Parker-Stubbs

Mr Martin Styan

Dr Z Subhani and Mrs Saima Jawaid

Mr Peter Suntha

Dr Jonathan W and Mrs Rebekah Swan

Mr and Mrs P J Taberner

Dr Mehamed Tahier and Dr Munira Peer

Mrs Ran Tao and Mr Jian Gao

Mr Clifford Tasker

Mr H Mike Tate

Mr Antony Taylor

Mrs Carol Taylor

Mr Paul Taylor

Taylor & Taylor Financial Services Ltd

Dr Louise Teague

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Mr Martin Thompson

Mr Rik Thwaites

Mr John Tomlinson

Miss Jacquelyn Tonge

Mrs Sheila Tonge

Mr M Thompson and Ms D Trueman

Mr M and Mrs F Umarji

Miss Amanda Valentine

Mrs Aileen Valentine (née Warren)

Mr T and Mrs D Varkey

Mr James D Vose

Mrs Joyce Vickers (née Riley)

Mr Martin Wadsworth

Mr Tony Wadsworth, CBE

The Wakefield Grammar School Foundation

Mr A Paul and Mrs Jayne Walker

Mr Andrew Walker

Mr Mark Walker and Ms Anjula Booth

Mr Peter Walker

Mrs Suman Wallis

Professor Ian Walsh, MBE

Mr James Walsh

Mr David and Mrs Gillian Warburton

Mr W Ross Warburton, MBE

Miss Yvonne Warburton

Mr George Ward

Mr Nigel Waters

Dr P Waugh and Dr J Corkindale

Mr Stanley Webster, OBE

Mr R Whyte and Miss E Haslam

Mrs Barbara Wild Mr and Mrs N Williams-Denton

Mr D and Mrs J Williamson

Sir Malcolm Williamson

Mr Martin and Mrs Svetlana Williamson

Dr Philip Winston

Mr Anthony K Wood

The Late Mr Jim Wood

Mr Stephen Wood Squadron Leader William Wood

Mrs Zonia Wood

Mr D Woodward and Ms

The Scott Trust

The Stevens Fund

The Stoller Charitable Trust

The Treeside Trust

The Ross Warburton Charitable Trust

The Williamson Educational Charitable Trust

The Zochonis Charitable Trust

PRIZES – GIRLS’ DIVISION

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Mrs J Booth

Mrs Kathryn Critchley

Mrs Margaret E Davies (née Walsh)

The De Maine Family

Dr Michael Dillon

Mr Rob Dobson Girls’ Division Parents’

Dr and Ms J A Morgan

Mrs Katy Morley

Mr David and Mrs Julie Morrison

Ms Janet Morritt

Mr John Moulton

Miss Elizabeth Mullenger

Mr Chris and Mrs Stephanie Murray

Nautilus Smugglers Club

Mr Roy H Needham

Mrs Elizabeth Newton Anonymous

Mr Peter Nightingale

Mr Sanbir and Mrs Narinder Notay

Mrs Claire Robinson

Mr David Robinson

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Ms Judith Robinson

Mr Nigel and Mrs Elizabeth Robson (née Fairless)

Roe and Co Sales

Mr Jim and Mrs Alison Rodger

Mrs Emma Rodriguez dos Santos

Mrs Sheila Roe

Mr Richard and Mrs Emma Roebuck

Mr and Mrs Roked

Mr Andrew Roscoe

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Mr Christopher and Mrs K Titley

Mr Raymond Travis

Dr Shiva and Dr Leena Tripathi

Mr Sean K True

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Mrs Kathleen Trustrum

Mr Simon Turner

Mr Mark and Mrs Lorna Tyldsley

The Late Dr Bernadette Tynan

Mr Uddin and Mrs Zarina

Mr and Mrs S Ughradar

Mr and Mrs Umar

The George Lancashire Commmunity Action Award

Award

Lord Leverhulme’s Charitable Trust

The Leverhulme Trust

The Platt Fisher Lecture Fund

The Raspin Fund

The Roberts Fund

The donors listed above pledged their support, or made a gift to the School, between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022, or have remembered the School in their will.

Every effort is made to ensure that the Roll of Honour is accurate, and we apologise wholeheartedly if there are any inaccuracies. Please do inform the Development Office if that is the case.

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