[New] Dulwich College Award for contribution to Social Mobility

Dulwich College is delighted to have been awarded winner of the Independent School Magazine’s Independent School of the Year Award 2022 for Contribution to Social Mobility. Dulwich College is, and has been since its foundation in 1619, committed to helping academicallytalented disadvantaged students from the local community achieve their potential.

Over £4 million is granted every year to support more than 200 bursary awards in and adjacent to their own borough of Southwark. 148 pupils (74% of bursary award holders) are supported with 75% to 100% of their annual fees, which are often life changing. Spending on bursaries has more than doubled since 2013 and it is our ambition to become a truly needs-blind school, open to pupils from all walks of life.

Almost all 2021 leavers in receipt of bursary awards are at Russell Group universities, including four at Oxbridge, studying Aeronautical Engineering, Classics, Medicine, Psychology, Mathematics and Economics, one student secured an Apprenticeship at KPMG and another is reading Computer Engineering and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

They told us: ”Equity, service and excellence lie at the heart of our school ethos. We are a diverse and welcoming community, including language, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, religious beliefs, and LGBTQ+ and believe that the many aptitudes of bursary holders are nurtured and cherished at Dulwich, but in a way which never loses sight of the parents, carers and educators who have also contributed along the way.” www.dulwich.org.uk

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