A N N U A L R E P O RT A N D F I N A N C I A L S TAT E M E N T S
Truro School Head My thanks to Graham, Amanda, Carla, and all the team for the care that has gone into creating another inspiring annual report. My thanks also to the Foundation and all who support it for its financial and wider commitment to our Truro School family. This commitment is part of our long history of championing access where we can. During the academic year 2020-21 five children were awarded Foundation Bursary Support. The total value of the Foundation awards given was just over £60,000. This was a key and highly valued part of the School’s wider means tested bursary award provision, which equated to just over £950,000 for that same period, including emergency COVID related bursaries. This generosity has benefitted just over 105 pupils who represent 11% of the whole school roll. For the current academic year, 2021-22, current Foundation awards are due to amount to just over £74,000, which will be supporting six children to benefit from being part of our School. Foundation generosity over the last two years has not just supported individual award holders, but has contributed to our emergency bursary fund, designed to keep pupils in school whose families had been seriously and adversely affected by the pandemic. The School recently received a moving and powerful letter from a family helped in exactly this way. They wanted to let us know that their income was now more secure and to thank the School for enabling them to keep their children here, when otherwise they would not have been able to do so. At a time when compassion remains needed in so many contexts locally, nationally, and internationally, the Foundation has again committed £50,000 to the school for the 2022-3 academic year.
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