DREAM NOW

It gives us great delight to be able to begin to share with the Ruyton community details around our Dream Now capital campaign to redevelop the Royce Theatre and Library. With intent to launch our Dream Now campaign and plans with the community face-to-face in 2021 through a series of cocktail evenings that would be expanded as the year progressed, repeated lockdowns required us to pivot and move online. Despite being limited to virtual conversations, we are thrilled to have received an incredibly positive response. To date we have raised almost one million dollars, which is truly quite extraordinary. We are so thankful to our community for their support. It is heartwarming to know those we have been able to share the campaign with, are as excited as we about this transformational development and the future it will create for our girls. We are just at the beginning of our journey to raise three million dollars in support of Dream Now, the largest fundraising campaign in Ruyton’s history. By raising these funds we will secure the build of this transformational precinct and see it through to completion and limit any borrowings. While this is an ambitious endeavour, it is less than ten percent of the 35 million dollars it will take to build this wonderful new Performing Arts Centre and Library precinct. For those who would like to support our fundraising, we will be holding a series of face-to-face and online events in the coming months. If you would like to be a part ofthis once in a decade building campaign, please visit our website and register your interest on the Dream Now page. Alternatively contact me on the details below. (All donations to our Dream Now campaign are tax deductible and can be pledged over five years.) Later in 2022 and 2023, we will have additional fundraising opportunities to support Dream Now. This will include being able to ‘Take a Seat’ in the auditorium or ‘Light the Lights’ on the main stage, as additional campaign appeals. Keep your eye out on future email communications and Ruyton Reporters for more information in the months and years ahead. Dream Now will transform the lives of generations of Ruyton students today and into the future. Thank you to everyone who has supported Dream Now to date; from past families to those here today. Your gifts have truly made a difference, and your faith in what we are working towards is an immeasurable giftto our school, and our girls. Sally de Guingand Director of Community Engagement deguingands@ruyton.vic.edu.au

for more information:

www.ruyton.vic.edu.au/dream-now