Development

LOOKING TOWARDS OUR 125TH ANNIVERSARY

In 2024, we will celebrate 125 years of preparing young women to go out into the world to lead, to serve and to realise their potential. This milestone is also a moment to assess how we can develop the quality of what we do in the face of accelerating change. By thinking ahead and being bold, we hope to sustain and develop as a leading, full-boarding girls’ school. We will be launching a new campaign to support a range of exciting educational initiatives designed to equip the girls to succeed in, and contribute to, the challenging world in which they will live and work. Key focus areas will be social and environmental responsibility, looking at ways we can reimagine our campus to provide inspirational facilities, as well as mobilising our community of Old Girls and parents to support our girls and leavers with advice, mentoring and networks. We look forward to sharing more details with you in due course. We are already building on our transformational Candlelight Bursaries programme, which offers full bursaries to girls whose challenging home lives mean that a boarding education can be lifechanging. We work in partnership with the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation to identify girls who would benefit most from our help, and we are currently raising funds to increase the number of girls we can support in this way.

INSPIRING MINDS

Following on from our successful Global Entrepreneurship Week, where we were hugely grateful to our five Old Girls who took part, we plan to launch an Inspiring Minds project. This will involve finding 125 inspirational speakers to talk to the current girls: inspiring Old Girls who can provide recordings for a collection of interviews; and mentors to inspire our current girls and younger Old Girls as they start out in their careers.

TORCHBEARERS

Our Torchbearers’ society is a very special group of individuals who have chosen to support the School by leaving a gift in their Will. Remembering Sherborne Girls in your Will is one of the most personal and significant ways in which someone can help Sherborne Girls remain at the forefront of women’s education, as well as support the School’s vision to widen access and attract talent irrespective of financial means. We would love to increase our Torchbearers’ community to 125 in our Anniversary year. If you are interested in finding out more about becoming a Torchbearer, supporting our Candlelight programme or would like to discuss any areas mentioned above, please contact: development@ sherborne.com or 01935 818320.

Katherine Prideaux-Brune (Massey) A’91, Director of External Affairs