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BURSARY PROGRAMME GDST Life 2022/23
IT’S GOOD TO TALK As part of a huge collective effort to step up fundraising and supercharge the GDST’s bursary programme, half of all GDST senior schools took part in the first ever multi-GDST telephone campaign last year.
Recent leavers from each of the schools set about calling selected alumnae, as well as some former parents and staff to share news, reminisce about their old school days and spread the all-important message about our mission to increase access for talented girls from all backgrounds to a GDST education. In all, our callers reached more than 1,200 members of their communities, raising over £200,000 for bursaries and establishing some valuable connections too. We asked Leah Young, a pupil at Sheffield High School for Girls and one of the alumnae she spoke with during the campaign, Jan Appelbee (nee Tolson), to share their story with us. “I applied to be a telephone campaign caller as I personally
Jan Appelbee Class of 1970
