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Equal opportunities As the UK’s leading charitable school, Christ’s Hospital in West Sussex ensures that its first-class education reaches children with the potential to be transformed by its enriching environment
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hrist’s Hospital is the UK’s leading charitable school and largest bursary charity. The school was established in 1552 and provides free or substantially reduced cost places to more than 630 of its 900 pupils – this is more than any other organisation in the UK. Through a first-class education and exceptional pastoral support, Christ’s Hospital provides each pupil with stability and the opportunity to thrive and
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BURSARY AND A SCHOLARSHIP? A scholarship is a financial award granted to talented individuals who excel in specific fields, for example, academic work, music, sport, art or drama. Meanwhile, a bursary is a financial award granted to a pupil on the basis of the pupil’s financial need.
fulfil their potential. 98 per cent of pupils go on to university, and leavers take with them the confidence and resilience needed to achieve success at university and beyond and to make a meaningful contribution to society in life. The total bursary (fee assisted) support given by Christ’s Hospital each year is over £18m.
Past and present
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Christ’s Hospital (CH) is one of the famous Royal Hospitals of London, whose foundation marked the beginning of the social services in Tudor England. Inspired by a sermon by Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, the young King Edward VI instructed the Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Dobbs, to appoint a committee of leading citizens to consider remedies and relief for the City’s homeless poor. Their work, and subsequently their philanthropy, led to the founding of the five great hospitals all supporting different needs. CH, established in the monastery of the Grey Friars in Newgate Street, embraced the task of educating and
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