The PLC Foundation

The PLC Foundation is a Not-For-Profit organisation established in 1986. The PLC Foundation exists to provide financial assistance to the school and to students; making it possible for PLC to continue to offer an exceptional environment for students and scholarship opportunities for those students requiring financial assistance to attend PLC.

2022 Giving

The PLC Foundation Board extends its gratitude and sincere thanks to the generous supporters of the 2022 Annual Giving Programme, the committed donors who continue to meet their pledges to the 2017 Scholarship Fundraising Campaign and the 2020 Hardship Campaign; and the current families who have donated through voluntary contributions.

Donations made to the PLC Foundation are directed either towards the Scholarship Fund or the Building Fund. The PLC Foundation 2022 Annual Giving Programme raised $176,339 with $3,660 directed to the Building Fund and $172,679 directed to the Scholarship Fund. Voluntary contributions throughout the year raised $101,068. The Foundation also received $67,080 meeting pledges from the 2017 Scholarship Fundraising Campaign and $47,500 meeting pledges from the 2020 PLC Student Hard Campaign.

Donations to the 2020 Student Hardship Campaign continue to be directed towards assisting PLC families who are experiencing financial hardship. All recipients of hardship support must have completed a comprehensive Financial Capability Assessment and are independently assessed by a third-party organisation. The extremely rigorous process for assessing hardship ensure applications are reviewed for veracity and subsequently processed without disclosure of individual families’ financial information directly to the school. Since the Hardship Appeal was launched by the Foundation in 2020 more than 70 families have contacted the school seeking some form of assistance. The Foundation Board is especially grateful to the PLC Community for its support of this fundraising effort which was originally established during the global pandemic to ensure that no family left the school because of a change in financial circumstances.

New member joins PLC Foundation Board

The PLC Foundation warmly welcomes Alexandrea Thompson to the Foundation Board. Alexandrea is a senior commercial lawyer with over 25 years’ experience, both in private practice and in house with international energy companies, leading and advising on commercial, contract negotiation, transactional, and external relations matters as well as providing advice on corporate governance, including company secretarial and Board advisory matters.

In addition to legal qualifications, Alexandrea holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)(UWA) and a Master of Arts (University of Warwick) in History of Art. She was also a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at Harvard Law School, which involved researching legal issues in respect of visual arts, museums, and international legal protections for cultural heritage.

Alexandrea attended PLC Perth for her early education years, and has a daughter , who is a fourth generation PLC girl.

2022 Scholarship recipients

Since 2013, the PLC Foundation has awarded students a full tuition scholarship. These scholarships provide an excellent opportunity for the successful student to fulfil their true potential and make a valuable and lasting contribution to PLC and the wider community.

In 2022, the PLC Foundation supported 13 Scholarship students and congratulates the following Foundation scholarship students for their outstanding achievements during 2022:

Year 7 Academic Excellence Award. This prize recognises a student’s outstanding academic achievements in the disciplines studied. The prize is awarded solely on scholastic results.

Year 8 Alpha Merit Award for Academic Endeavour. This prize is awarded at each year level to those students who score most highly on the selection criteria. All students, from the most academic to the least, are considered and are equally eligible. It is a highly respected honour and recognises the solid, supportive, hard-working and conscientious PLC student who strives to do her best academically.

Year 8 Citizenship Award. This prize recognises PLC students who demonstrate integrity acceptance of responsibility, inclusivity of others, compassion, respect for self and others and engagement in the life of the School community.

Dorothy Hutchinson Prize for Piano.

Francesca Nelson award for Food Science and Technology.