Editor’s welcome

Development & community partnerships update

The Development team

JACK CLARK

Development Director

jack.clark@emanuel.org.uk

Jack is responsible for overseeing the school’s ambitious Battersea Rise Trust.

This includes the transformative free places campaign and estate plans. Please contact Jack to find out more or to discuss fundraising and capital development at

Emanuel.

LISA IRWIN

Deputy Development and

Community Partnerships Director

lisa.irwin@emanuel.org.uk

As well as supporting activities across the Battersea Rise Trust, Lisa heads up our community partnership activities including our flagship Primary Ambitions programme. Please contact Lisa if you would like to find out more or get involved.

ANNA VAN ES

Development and Alumni Manager

anna.van-es@emanuel.org.uk Anna supports the Battersea Rise Trust initiatives and is responsible for events, publications, alumni relations and the regular giving programme.

Anna is Editor of The Rose and Portcullis.

If you have any comments, suggestions or feedback on this publication, please email Anna.

TONY JONES

Archivist

tony.jones@emanuel.org.uk

As well as being the school’s senior librarian, Tony manages the school archive: a fully-functioning small museum for all things Emanuel. Tony also runs our alumni Facebook and Twitter posts and plays a key role in alumni relations and events.

A large percentage of our documents are now available to browse online, including the Portcullis magazine, prize lists, drama cast lists and photographs. We are always looking for ways to develop our collection, so if you have a fascinating item at home, do get in touch.

Editor’s welcome

We want to thank all our alumni for their support over the last year but especially for the phenomenal response we have seen since the pandemic. Before the school was forced to go into lockdown, our alumni were instrumental in our ability to offer our highest number of transformative free places, fund the repair of the much-loved chapel organ and do even more with our community outreach programme. With the school closure in late March we tried to look, as Emanuel has always done, beyond the school gates and to those who were impacted most by the pandemic. Over the next six weeks we saw an incredible response from OEs and parents who, along with over 92% of the school staff, donated to our community campaigns. There is more about the impact of these initiatives on pages 6 and 7.

For the Development team, as well as a number of other staff who took part, a highlight of lockdown was speaking to so many of our older OEs. Between March and the end of April, we tried to contact over 500 of our older alumni. Our aim was to collect as many stories and updates as we could so that in the future we can share them with our alumni and pupils. If we didn’t manage to get through to you and you would be happy to take part, please email us at oe@emanuel.org.uk.

Over the following pages, we have outlined some of the main goals and the wider vision for development at Emanuel. These will only be achieved with the continued encouragement, commitment and support of our students, staff, parents and alumni. In these challenging economic times, we need the championship of key members of the Emanuel community to establish the necessary foundation to develop and sustain the school into the future. We would very much welcome an opportunity to discuss the school’s plans with you, in the hope you will endorse and support our ambitions. Please do let us know if you would like to meet with one of us, either face-to-face or over video, and when would best suit your schedule. You can contact us on development@emanuel.org. uk or call Jack Clark, Development Director, on 020 8875 6978.

We would like to welcome former governor, Marion Parsons, as our Legacies Patron. We plan on running a number of exciting events this year to recognise this valued group and their continued support of Emanuel. If you would like to know more about our legacy group, please contact us on development@emanuel.org.uk

Anna Van Es Editor

The Development Office Emanuel School, Battersea Rise London SW11 1HS Tel: 0208 875 6978

www.emanuel.org.uk