Campaign Review, September 2021
The Latymer Foundation at Hammersmith was established in 1624 ‘to clothe and educate eight poore boyes’ in Hammersmith. It remains true to the vision of its founder Edward Latymer to this day, offering a first class education to academically able students from all walks of life.
The Inspiring Minds campaign is seeking to raise £40 million for the Latymer Foundation by 2024 in order to provide funding for means-tested bursaries for as many as 1 in 4 of our pupils, offering a life-transforming Latymer education to more local children. It is our aim that any child with academic potential can come to our School, regardless of their family’s financial status. Significantly increasing our endowment for bursaries will ensure we have funding for generations of Latymerians to come.
Latymer Upper and Latymer Prep Schools are academically selective, independent, coeducational schools in West London. Although now fully fee-paying, the Schools’ ethos of social inclusivity remains as true today as it did nearly 400 years ago when the Latymer Foundation was established by Edward Latymer ‘to clothe and educate eight poore boyes’ in Hammersmith. His vision remains firmly at the heart of the School and the Latymer of today consists of a vibrant student body of 1,400 girls and boys from all walks of life.
Without your generosity, my dreams would not have been realised. Through the bursary fund, I can say that I have found my second home here at Latymer. Thank you for allowing students like me to reach their goals and allowing them to be the greatest versions of themselves.
For our community, not least in terms of the pandemic, this past year has tested us in ways no one could have anticipated. The enthusiasm of our students and the incredible support and generosity of parents and Latymerians – from across the decades, and indeed the planet – has highlighted what we are able to achieve when we all come together to support each other, not just in our own School, but as a good neighbour in our local area.
At Latymer we aim to prepare our students to live lives of consequence as mindful citizens of a rapidly changing 21st century world. It is no surprise that Latymerians have been behind a wide range of initiatives that have earned global recognition (and a fair few awards), and raised thousands of pounds for the NHS and other charities supporting frontline workers and those most in need – a legacy of which Edward Latymer would be proud.
As this year’s cohort of Latymer graduates begin the next stage of their lives, I am reminded of the life-changing impact of our bursaries. Since 2004, over 70% of our bursary holders have gone on to Russell Group
universities, with increasing numbers now also accepting places at international universities, including the Ivy League. This year one such student, who joined us as a quiet and rather shy young girl in Year 7, received offers to read Natural Sciences not only from Cambridge, but also Princeton and MIT, where she is one of only 140 international students in the world to be admitted. A third of our bursary holders will be the first people in their family to go to university, and it is thanks to the incredible generosity of our community that young students like Oyin can come to Latymer and realise their dreams. As we welcome our new cohort to the school this September, it is exhilarating to know that 1 in 5 of our pupils will be on a bursary. With 89% of our former bursary holders telling us that Latymer increased their aspirations for life after school, I cannot wait to see what they will go on to achieve.
Now, more than ever, our mission to provide an outstanding education for all academically able children, no matter their financial means, is a moral imperative. Last year’s report by the Education Policy Institute indicated that the disadvantage gap has stopped closing for the first time in over a decade. It makes me proud that progress towards realising our ambition to be the most socially inclusive independent school in the UK by 2024 has not slowed.
In the same way, our commitment to our outreach programme remains undiminished. Whilst the national lockdown might have paused existing projects, we have adapted, focusing our support on what was most needed: whether tackling digital poverty with donations of laptops and dongles, or opening our hub as a safe place for children in the local area to come to study and be fed.
Our holiday camps with Let Me Play have also been a huge success. So far, we’ve provided over 100 children from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged families in the area with mental health and wellbeing support, a daily meal, and opportunities to play and learn new skills from some of the best qualified and experienced facilitators and outdoor leaders in the world. We’ve also just completed the first phase of our Attain catch-up programme in local schools, and the feedback has been incredible – teachers are already reporting an improvement in their pupils’ academic ability, engagement and attention. None of this would have been possible without the incredible energy of our staff and the generous support of our donors.
The African proverb – “It takes a village to raise a child” – has never felt more relevant, and as I look back on this last year, I feel inspired by what we have achieved together. As Latymerians, we don’t sit on the sidelines; if we see something that we think needs to be done, we step up and play our part in trying to make a difference. Our commitment to providing the best educational opportunities for young people is shared by our whole community and that gives me hope and cause for optimism about better times ahead.
has been raised for our Inspiring Minds campaign £33m
£492,894
raised for the Prep Bursary Fund
members of the Latymer community have contributed financially to the Campaign 4,259
Ratio of students who joined in Year 7 on a bursary
2021 – 1 in 5
2014 – 1 in 9
7,344
615
people donated to the Prep Bursary Fund
£2.6m
members of staff raised money or donated 270 was received in bequests
members of the 1624 Legacy Society There are 207
2009 – 1 in 32 1624 +
Alumni live in 57 countries and 2,739 have attended a Latymer event
people have attended a Latymer Foundation event
£3.3m
has been raised by the Bursaries Appeal
3,588 people have donated to the Bursaries Appeal
During the 2020/21 academic year
£26,288
has been raised since July 2020 at our Virtually Speaking online events
£307,010
was left in bequests from members of the 1624 Legacy Society
£4,500 was raised for the Prep Bursary Fund by 29 children sponsored by friends and family for the 2021 Challenge £4,335
raised by Prep children who swam 151 miles (9,748 lengths) over the four days of the Prep Swimathon
students have been actively involved in RAIS£, the student-led fundraising club 90
£49,783
was raised for projects to support young people in our local community whose education had been worst hit by repeated lockdowns
7
children in the Prep have been supported by bursaries this year
Nearly was raised by the Great Latymer Alfresco Weekend which was hosted by individuals from Shepherd’s Bush to Scotland and Acton to America £9,000
439 children applied for an 11+ bursary
Our youngest donor was 7 97 years of age and our oldest is raised by evening classes organised by a group of former parents and taught by Latymer teachers
Year 7
£10,470 of Year 7 parents have donated, attended an event or volunteered in support of Inspiring Minds 71%
With four years remaining, the Campaign has raised just over £33m Our journey to £40m
£22m
The whole Latymer community gets involved in fundraising following the public launch in September.
£18k
£26m
The Campaign continues to gain momentum, with a record 29 events and ever-increasing participation across our community.
£26k
176 bursary pupils, 113 received in excess of 90% fee remission. Of the from 4,259 supporters across the Latymer community. Alumni, current students and their parents, staff and Governors have generously given their time, money and talent to ensure that the Latymer Foundation can continue to provide access to a life-changing education for another 400 years.
£13m
£1m
The official start of our Inspiring Minds campaign, whose primary aim is to increase bursary provision, both now and for generations to come.
Of the
123 bursary pupils, 86 received in excess of 90% fee remission.
£7.8m
Enthusiastic early support of the Campaign encourages us to set the ambitious, yet hopefully achievable, target of £40m.
1,000 individuals support our annual Bursaries Appeal.
130 bursary pupils, 86 received in excess of 90% fee remission. Of the
Support begins to gain momentum, with significant cornerstone donations made to the Campaign.
141 bursary pupils, 101 received in excess of 90% fee remission. Of the £486k raised by this year’s record-breaking Bursaries Appeal.
2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
raised by our student-led fundraising club, RAIS£, through events, activities and merchandise.
£2.1m
raised at the Inspiring Minds Gala Dinner for Latymer’s endowment.
154
bursary pupils, 100 received in excess of 90% fee remission. Of the
donated at the Great Latymer Dinner Party Weekend, with staff, parents and many others taking part and creating delicious meals to raise vital funds.
£31m
The incredible outpouring of support for Inspiring Minds, both for endowment and currently funded bursaries, helps the Foundation to weather the Coronavirus crisis without a reduction in bursary provision.
£3.3m
raised from all sources this year for current bursaries, including gifts to the Prep Bursary Fund and the Bursaries Appeal 2019/20, plus individual sponsorship of new awards.
Of the
204
bursary pupils, 139 received in excess of 90% fee remission.
£33m
As well as supporting bursaries for new joiners, donors created an Emergency Bursaries Fund for any current Latymer pupil whose family was struggling to pay fees due to the impact of the pandemic.
£26k
raised from the Virtually Speaking series of online talks, which reached 1,000 households in 12 countries.
Of the
236
bursary pupils supported by the Foundation, 131 received in excess of 90% fee remission.
Overall value of the Foundation’s investments
Income
expenditure
ending August 2020
Value of endowed bursary funds*
Value of all donations received in 2019/20
Amount spent on bursaries and scholarships £67.1m £36.3m £5.9m £3.5m
* Most gifts to our Inspiring Minds campaign are immediately allocated to fund current students, according to donors’ wishes. This means that the gift is fully spent by the time the student leaves Latymer, so to create a replacement bursary requires a new round of fundraising. However, a key aim of our Inspiring Minds campaign has been to build Latymer’s endowment so that funding for bursaries is permanently in place for future generations of Latymerians. A spending rate of 3% is applied to our endowment funds, which ensures we have the ability to consistently fund bursaries over the long term.
The pandemic negatively impacted many areas of our society, but a major worry for our country is the widening of the attainment gap. The Foundation wanted to help local schools by providing catch-up support for those children who were falling furthest behind as a result of repeated lockdowns, and so we launched our Attain programme in January 2021.
The Year 5 and 6 primary school pupils involved in Attain were nominated by their class teachers, and were selected on the basis of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on them and their education. Each child receives up to 15 hours of catch-up support in Maths and English from a dedicated tutor who works with a small group of three to four children. The tutors are teachers from not only Latymer Upper and Latymer Prep Schools, but also teachers who have partnered with us from St Paul’s School and St Paul’s Girls’ School.
Thanks to the generous support of several donors, this tutoring provision is being offered free of charge to the 12 partner schools involved in the first phase.
The students who took part in our Primary Attain programme had been assessed by their teachers as being between one to two years behind where they were expected to be. After taking part in the programme, 80% of the class teachers who responded to our feedback survey saw an increase in their students’ academic ability; 100% saw increased student confidence; and 100% also saw an increase in their students’ overall readiness to be back in school after lockdown.
Given the overwhelming success of the early stages, we expanded this programme from primary to secondary school children and have launched catch-up support for Year 10 students as well. In late April, six Latymer teachers started running in-person sessions at our neighbour, West London Free School. Our tutors have provided teaching across the three Sciences, English Language, Spanish and Maths. Lessons have been made available to up to 50 students, all of whom have been identified as in receipt of Pupil Premium or meeting an equivalent indicator of low financial means, and having a high-level need for additional catch-up support as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Lessons ran until the end of the summer term. We will be monitoring participants in regard to both their short-term progress immediately after receiving additional lessons and also their longer-term outcomes, such as GCSE results next summer, as we hope to sustain our support through the next academic year.
I got my confidence back in school!
Before, I was really anxious, and today I’m talking a lot and I’m less jumpy.
Year 6 student
I have noticed a huge impact on their confidence. They are participating much more in class discussions.
Year 5 teacher
I’m really enjoying the sessions – the pupils are so lovely and I can see that they really benefit from the extra tuition and individual attention.
teacher / Attain tutor
The impact of a Latymer education lasts long after bursary students leave our School. In the last 15 years, roughly 70% of those who benefitted from a bursary went on to Russell Group universities, and almost all were accepted to internationally acclaimed universities, both in the UK and abroad. In a recent survey, 89% of former bursary holders said that Latymer increased their aspirations for life after school. The impact of our bursary programme is not limited to a student’s time at Latymer, but rather, continues to improve their life chances, and those of their family, for many years to come.
596 students have benefitted from a bursary since 2004
80% of former bursary holders said that Latymer helped them develop confident language and presentation skills
59% of former bursary holders said that Latymer helped them develop relevant network connections for their career
38% of our bursary holders have gone on to achieve one or more post-graduate degrees
1/3 of our bursary holders were the first in their family to attend university
Tianrun joined Latymer Prep when he was seven years old and left the Upper School this summer to attend a top university. He flourished academically at Latymer as well as making a great contribution to the musical life of our School. Recently, Tianrun came back to thank his former teachers, acknowledging that the full bursary which enabled him to take up his place at Latymer had made “a significant impact on my life; I honestly don’t know where I would be without it.”
Without doubt, my proudest moment has been when I received the email offering me a place at King’s College, Cambridge. At that moment, I knew I would have also made Mr Dorrian proud; he was my former Head in the Prep, and he gave me the bursary place at Latymer. Latymer has shaped the person I am today, and I was only able to come because of the bursary I was given. By giving to the Bursaries Appeal, you can increase the diversity of the student body tremendously; I have been given chances that I might never have had.
Oyin joined as a shy, quiet eleven-year-old and leaves as “an outgoing person with faith in myself and my abilities.” In Year 9, her Chemistry teacher recognised an advanced understanding of the subject, telling Oyin she was the best chemist she had ever taught. This encouragement inspired Oyin to follow her academic passion. Having been offered a place at every institution to which she applied, including Cambridge, Imperial, Edinburgh, and Princeton, Oyin has chosen to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She dreams of becoming a toxicologist in the future and running her own company. Looking back on her time at Latymer, Oyin credits “the best teachers who pushed me to be the best I can be.” She also loved her community service teaching Latin at lunchtime club at a local primary school and setting up a Digital Art Club, showing younger students how to use technology creatively.
There are many other young people out there who deserve to have the amazing opportunities I have enjoyed at Latymer. Thank you to those donors who gave me this wonderful education; in giving to the bursaries fund, you make an impact far further than the one child you sponsor.
In response to the pandemic, the Foundation Office team acted quickly and innovatively over the summer of 2020 to switch our events programme from physical to digital to help keep the Latymer community engaged and entertained through subsequent lockdowns.
In July, we launched our programme of online talks by members of our school community and they proved hugely popular. We have set up a video library on our website with a selection of recordings from these talks, which have been viewed hundreds of times.
We are grateful for all the help and generosity of parents, colleagues and alumni across our community, without whom this programme would not have been possible. Many kindly donated when registering for one or more of the online talks, and in doing so, gave a great boost to both our Upper School Bursaries Appeal and our Prep Bursary Fund. You can read more about those appeals on page 12.
The Head launched this year’s series with a talk on Latymer’s history – especially relevant as October 2020 saw the celebration of 125 years of Latymer Upper School on King Street. The talk raised £750 for the Bursaries Appeal.
£26,228.50
1,000 Latymer households together gave £26,228.50 for our bursaries programme by making a donation when registering to attend one of our Virtually Speaking series of online talks over the last year.
In November, Letizia Treves, Latymer parent and curator of the highly-acclaimed exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi at the National Gallery, talked about the life and art of the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century. This online event sold out within a week, raising £1,250.
A record audience of 235 households tuned in to hear former Economist editor, Bill Emmott (1974), and current Head of Bloomberg Economics and Latymer parent, Stephanie Flanders, discuss what governments and other public bodies need to think about in order to deal with the aftermath of the pandemic, raising a total of £1,500.
£550 was raised when this internationally renowned portraitist talked to arts writer and Latymerian, Peter Aspden (1976), about his craft and the role of portraiture in the digital age – as well as its status in the past.
Latymerian and author, Jonathan Drori (1979), shared stories about 80 remarkable plants from around the globe. Jon very generously donated signed copies of his new book to the Foundation, which raised over £1,000 in sales from our online shop.
In April, Claudia Winkleman, TV presenter, was in conversation with Emma Freud, broadcaster, producer and writer, raising over £900 for our Prep Bursary Fund. Much to their surprise, fellow Latymer parent Bill Bailey dropped in on their chat all the way from New Zealand!
series of tutorials on French literature
Peter Winter whisked us away to France during the time of a global travel ban, attracting an army of alumni and raising over £3,000 in the process.
Despite the second national lockdown, we were adamant that the new academic year should somehow include networking events for younger alumni, who needed trusted career advice even more than ever. The last nonvirtual networking evening had been held at the RAC back in March 2020 with keynote speaker the then Governor of the Bank of England, and Latymer parent, Mark Carney. How, then, could we follow such an inspiring occasion in the continuing Covid online world?
Well, surprisingly easily. With the experience of a summer of Zoom events under our belts, we set about extending our online series of Virtually Speaking talks and added reunions and career advice sessions to the Foundation Office events slate. Of course, our virtual gatherings have had restrictions; reunions such as the Annual Dinner couldn’t take place in the School’s evocative Main Hall, and the prestigious locations for our career events were exchanged for a digital device and the confines of studies, kitchens and sitting rooms. But we have discovered there is much to commend online events – so much so that we are now including virtual meets alongside those made in person as part of our career and social strategy – even as lockdown is further reduced.
One major upside to these online gatherings has been the reach. During a period in which isolation and loneliness have been exacerbated, we have been thrilled to welcome those who, for various reasons, would have been unable to join us in normal times. For some, age might be a barrier. For others, home postcodes may be so far removed from W6 as to make attending an event impossible. Our virtual tea parties and reunions for alumni who were at Latymer during the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s were remarkable in their international reach, with 121 Latymerians
joining us via Zoom from as far afield as Australasia, Asia and the Americas, alongside those from all corners of the UK. Even that stalwart of the alumni calendar, the Annual Dinner, was attended by 54 Latymerians from across the globe via Zoom.
Career events have posed a different challenge. How could we encourage our young alumni to network without…networking? Our solution has been to create a virtual career series of interactive Zoom discussions entitled Ask an Expert. Aimed at Latymerians under 30,
I enjoyed the whole experience of networking, especially due to the fact that this was my first time doing this in a formal setting. I also enjoyed the panel, from which I learnt a lot.
including current Sixth Formers from Latymer and our partner schools, this series has offered online discussions in which our young attendees are encouraged to actively engage in the lively Q&A session following the panel debate. This age group, we reasoned, included those most likely to need help in deciding what career route they wanted to follow post-university; and for those a little older, getting a foot on the ladder of their chosen profession – neither of which has been made easy during a prolonged lockdown.
To date, we have held Ask an Expert Zoom sessions on five different employment sectors: Education, Charitable, Digital, Management Consultancy and Entrepreneurism. Panel members are Latymerians typically not that much older than attendees and have included those living in the US, Africa and Ireland. Each panellist has offered our young people a fantastic insight into their chosen industry. Their advice has been given with much enthusiasm, encouragement – and a healthy dose of candour. For practical reasons, many of our virtual panellists would not have been able to engage in our in-person career events and our community would have been the poorer for their absence. With each session recorded for posterity, these gems of information are open to all to view on the Foundation’s website.
The second lockdown period of 2020/21 has not been without its challenges, but the reaction of our alumni community to our virtual reunions, talks and Ask an Expert events has been tremendously heartening. With each gathering so warmly and enthusiastically supported, we look forward to 2021/22 as a hybrid year in which we combine the fun of seeing our alumni at in-person events with the pleasure of seeing those from further afield via our screens!
The Upper School’s Bursaries Appeal is our annual community-led appeal, which aims to fund five new bursaries each year.
It began in 2005, when it was known as the Annual Fund, and since then this appeal has funded bursaries for 59 young people, thereby changing their lives forever. We are so grateful to the thousands of parents, Latymerians and students whose donations over many years have made such a difference. Together, they have had a huge cumulative impact, raising £3.3 million since the beginning of our Inspiring Minds campaign in 2014.
Those donors who commit to a regular monthly, quarterly or annual gift are a vital part of our Bursaries Appeal donor community, and regular gifts like these represent almost half of the money raised for bursaries each year. We simply couldn’t fund our bursaries without our regular donors, and knowing in advance when these gifts will arrive helps us to plan ahead. A Direct Debit gift of just £5 per month, set up now, will have contributed £263 to our Inspiring Minds campaign by the end of 2024 (if eligible for Gift Aid).
Everyone in the Latymer community can join the hundreds of people who show their support for our Bursaries Appeal each year, either by volunteering, attending an event, setting up a sponsored event, or donating. Over the last 18 months, our community has continued to help us in a wide variety of ways and we are profoundly grateful to each and every person for their contribution.
The Prep Bursaries Appeal was set up in 2009 and is currently funding seven bursaries, enriching the experience of all the children in our Prep School. The first recipient of a Prep bursary leaves the Upper School for university this year. Read about his experience at Latymer on page 9.
21 Prep children set themselves some wonderfully creative and imaginative goals to celebrate 2021, from jumping on the trampoline 21 times for 21 days or staying in the bathroom for 21 hours, to running 21 miles or making 21 origami animals. Their endeavours raised over £4,000 for the Prep Bursary Fund.
In August, Team Latymer – David Goodhew and Latymerian Sir Jim Smith (1973) – took up the Ride London 100 challenge, cycling a gruelling 102 miles to raise funds for the Bursaries Appeal. Their circular route, starting and finishing at the School gates, took in Hampton Court, Windsor and Runnymede. Sponsorship by generous members of the Latymer community raised over £5,600 for the Bursaries Appeal.
All the Prep children took part in the Swimathon in May. Over four days, they swam an amazing 151 miles – Year 4 achieved 25 miles, while Year 6 reached a brilliant 48 miles. Then it was the turn of Year 3, who swam a very impressive 1,620 lengths (just over 25 miles). The Swimathon came to a close with Year 5, who swam 51 miles, taking us over our target of 150 miles (9,656 lengths in total!) Generous friends and family members were inspired by this brilliant achievement to give £4,500.
When I look through the pages of this year’s Campaign Review, I see the names of hundreds of people from across every section of our extended Latymer “village”. Our Inspiring Minds campaign is supported by Latymerians old and young, their family and friends, current and former staff, as well as members of the public who have no direct connection to Latymer, but who just believe in what we do. This support has been more vital to us than ever over the past year. A whole army of people who contribute what they can, be it time, effort or money, to help us make Latymer the most socially inclusive independent day school in the country, and to increase the impact of our outreach work in our local community.
This incredible broad-based support for our Campaign sets us apart from other schools and the boldness of our vision for Latymer’s bursary programme is sector-leading. When, in 2014, our Head, David Goodhew, set out his vision of a needs-blind Latymer, we quickly realised that in order to accomplish the first stage of that journey – which would enable
the Foundation to fund bursaries for 1 in 4 of our students by 2024, the 400th anniversary of the Latymer Foundation – we needed to embark on a hugely ambitious fundraising campaign, never before undertaken by a British independent school.
The extent to which our community has rallied round has been truly inspirational, especially during these turbulent times. Latymerians of all ages have continued to support our annual appeals and include bequests to Latymer in their wills. Prep pupils have swum countless lengths in support of the Prep Bursary Fund, while the Upper School’s student-led club, RAIS£, has created branded merchandise, the proceeds from which bolster our Bursaries Appeal. Current and former teachers have led evening classes and given online lectures, all to raise money for Inspiring Minds. Parents, and grandparents, of current and former pupils have volunteered hours of their time in support of the Foundation Office as well as giving us their invaluable philanthropic support. This has meant that we have been able to offer financial assistance to even more of our students this year and to increase the support for local children in the borough.
The effect of this has been truly significant. 1 in 4 of the external candidates joining Year 7 this year was able to do so thanks to a bursary, the majority worth more than 90% of fees; while 1 in 3 of those joining Latymer at Sixth Form was able to take up their hard-won place thanks to a full bursary. This means that some 235 (or 1 in 5) of our students currently benefit from fee remission provided by the Latymer Foundation.
All of us at the Latymer Foundation would like to extend our warmest thanks to everyone who has contributed to our Inspiring Minds campaign in any way since its inception in 2014. We are especially grateful to our generous donors, some of whom are named below, and others who wish to remain anonymous. The following list includes donations made through May 2021. Huge apologies if, due to human error, we omitted your name. Please do let us know and we will correct it for next year’s Review.
Gani Abaidildinov & Zhanna Karymsakova
Agha & Shazia
Abbas
Tony Abbott (1946)
Kaled & Zina Abdel-Majeed
Lala Abdullayeva
Julian & Eleanor Abrams
Isabel Adomakoh Young (2011)
Andrew & Sarah Aglionby
John Aglionby & Ati Kisjanto
Newton Aguiar & Renee Aguiar-Lucander * Harjeet Ahluwalia (2015)
Zafar Ahmadullah & Tarika Singh
Nazar & Dalia Ahmed
Damir & Alma Ahmovic
Sassan Ahsani
Sunny Ahuja (1990)
Malekshah & Yeganeh Akhavan-Zanjani
Aos Al Hasani (2018)
Denis Albert & Dasha Klyachko *
Alex & Ana-Beatriz Alencar
And the impact of our Inspiring Minds campaign extends beyond Latymer’s King Street gates. 113 local children attended our Easter and summer camps, having been referred by local authorities and specialists as being most in need of companionship and fresh air. Our Attain programme has provided catch-up tutoring for 48 children in 12 nearby primary schools and 67 students from a local secondary school. These students were selected by their teachers as being most at risk of falling behind following the disruption to their education caused by the pandemic, and exacerbated by financial disadvantage. Our Bright Sparks programme ran again this summer, welcoming Year 5 students from local primary schools to have engaging experiences of secondary education and learn about the life-changing bursary opportunities at competitive schools such as ours. These are just a few examples of the way that the Latymer Foundation has been able to inspire young minds thanks to the generosity of our School community.
So, a very heartfelt thank you to every single one of you mentioned in this Review, and also to those of you who have chosen to remain anonymous. The true wealth of Latymer lies in the people who make up its community and we remain forever indebted to you all.
AMANDA SCOTT
Executive Director, the Latymer Foundation at Hammersmith
KEY ~ = Deceased
* = 2024 will mark the 400th anniversary of the Latymer Foundation and the Leadership List recognises those who have given £2,024 or more in any one academic year since 2014 (1991) = Latymerians’ Class year
Dan & Linn Alexander
Ian Alexander & Sabina Malfatti
Jules Alexander Nadia Ali
Assem Alireza & Negar Ram-Alireza *
Sara Alireza
Babiker & Noujoud Alkhader
Dennis Allen (1973)
Kathy Allen
Roger Allen (1959)
Nick Allott & Christa D’Souza
Brian Allum (1960)
Salah Alrawi & Kirsten Meyer
Patrick Altern & Ines Faden Da Silva Altern
Joerg & Claudia Alting
Adonis Alvanis & Ayako Yoshida
Guy & Dominique America *
Sergey & Nadia Amerikov
Aniel Anand (2001)
Gurbir Anand (1999)
Anujan Anandarajah (2013)
Vaithilingham Anandarajah & Vallipuram Vathsala
Adriaan Andersen & Sandra Fountain
Lars & Jenifer Andersen *
Mark Andersen (1958)
Andy Anderson (1958)
Simon Anderson
Magnus & Gaelle Andersson
Lisa Andrews
Nick Andrews (1976)
Sharon Andrus
John Anfield (1974)
Graham Angel (1957) * Roger Angold (1958)
Aida Ansah-Palmer (2012)
Charles Ansley (1967) & Sophia Dettmer
Sharmila Antao
Dino (1985) & Avue Antoniades * Arif Anwar (1990) * Martin Anyim (1995)
Peter Appleson (1969)
Victor Apps (1966)
Steve Aquilina (1979)
Eitaroh Arakawa (1991)
Derek Archer (1957) ~ Peter & Zia Arden
John Arlidge & Stephanie Flanders * Eric Armitage (1943) ~ C Armstrong
Sam & Bhavya Arora * John Arundel (1967)
Minaz & Heidi Asaria
Vladimir Ashurkov & Alexandrina Markvo
Jeremy & Marion Ashworth *
Martin Ashworth & Chi-Hung Foo
Paul Askew (1973)
Yashar Asl (1996)
Peter Aspden (1976) & Sian Davis
Giles Aston (1983)
Jonathan Aston (1978)
& Kate Trinder
Oscar Morland (2018)
Sam & Caroline Morland
Julia Morley * Justin Morley
Rupert Morley *
Ben Morris & Mel Giedroyc
Bruce Morris (1961) Derek & Tracey Morris
Harriet Morris (2009)
Martin Morrison & Marie Wilkinson
Barry & Dixie Morse
Jamie Mortimer (1965)
Laura Mosedale
Paul Moss (1983)
Ibrahim Moussa & Jolnar Assi
Lee Mowle
Derek Moxon (1952)
James Muir (1962)
Simon Muir (2003)
Haresh Mulchandani (1992)
Rory & Charlotte Mullarkey
David Mumby & Louise Cook
James & Carmen Munro
Turi Munthe & Muzia Sforza *
Al Murdoch Moira Murdoch
Sarah Murley
Dan Murphy Frank Murphy (1986)
Kieran Murphy (1976) * Roger Murphy (1965) ~ *
Stephen & Rachael Murphy
James (1986) & Janet Murray
Neil Murray (1954)
Phil Murray (1972)
Jamie Murrin
Gianluca Muzzi
Robert Myers (1967) * Anushka Nadarajah
Ayesha Nadarajah
Mano Nadarajah
Vasuhi Nadarajah-Pillai
Alexander Naidenov & Mila Georgieva
Donald Nappin (1952) ~ * Jane Nash
Tank Nash (1958)
Samantha Nayar
Perry Naylor (1993)
Sahand Nazemi (2001)
John Neal (1947) ~ Xanthe Neale
Chris Neate (1974)
Mark & Shivahi Bhavna Neill
Mark & Moya Nelson
Matthew Nelson (2003)
Michael Nelson (1948)
Patrick & Paige Nelson *
Paul & Mariana Nelson
Christina Nesheva
Tim Neslen (2001)
John Neumark (1945)
Bob Newberry (1957)
Clive & Gamze Newell
Charles Newman (1954)
James & Rashmi Newman Gareth & Sara Newton
Matthew Neylan (1992)
Mark Ng (1991)
Linh-Chi Nguyen (2010) Richard Niblett
John Nicholls (1958) ~ * Mark & Susan Nicholls
Garth Nicholson (1959)
Margaret Ann Nicholson
Peter & Jane Nicholson
Jim Nicolson (1971)
Christopher Niekirk (1963) *
Birthe Nielsen
Chris Nigond & Trudy Taylor
Colin Nixon (1957)
Martin Nixon (1982)
Alain & Adebimpe Nkontchou
Cyrille Nkontchou Meido Nkontchou (2019) William Nkontchou Keith Noakes
Nolan
Normington (1974)
Norris
& Rosie Norris
North (1951)
(1980) & Ka Ching Nottidge
& Polly Nottingham
Novoselov &
Noyes (1981)
Nuki (1955)
(1947)
O’Brien Andrew & Catherine O’Connor
O’Connor (1989)
& Kathleen O’Connor
Odgers & Romayne Campbell-Odgers
& Sanne Oestergaard * Derryth Officer
O’Flynn
& Chloe Ogden *
Ogden
& Jo Ogden *
Ogden
Ogden
Ogden
Ogden Trust * Constantine & Helen Ogunbiyi
& Louise O’Hagan
& Emma O’Kane
O’Keeffe
& Lena Okun *
& Gaetane Oldenhove De Guertechin
O’Leary
O’Leary
Oliver (1998)
& Dee Oliver
Olivier
O’Neill
& Ikunna Onwuanibe
Oram
Orme
Orton
& Rita Orton
& Jeannetta Orton
Osborne
Osborne
O’Shea & Louisa Leventis * Oleg Osipenko & Iryna Kazanchuk * Peter Ostojic (1974)
Otterburn (1965)
Oulton
Oulton ~
& Liz Ovenden
Overend
& Jennifer Overhaus John Owen (1973)
Owen
Owen (1971)
Owen (1960)
& Liz Owens
Owens (1953)
Pain (1987)
Painter (1976)
Pajoheshfar (2015)
Palmer
Palmer (1979)
Palmer Phil Palmer (1973) ~ *
Pandhare & Katrina Koffler V & Shakuntala Pandit Sarah Paneth
Pantelides Chris & Marianna Papachristophorou * Aris Papageorgiou & Amparo Galindo Yanis
Papagiannis & Carol Bitter * Lisa Paquette
Jay Paramanathan (1987) Christopher Parish (1955)
James Park & Ondine Upton
Parr
Salli Parra
Ben & Kathryn Parry
Midge Parry (2013)
Tom Parsons (2003)
Paul Pascoe & Alice Beer
Daniel Pasini & Ermelinda Ferlin
Martin Pasteiner
Luiz Pastore & Carolina Overmeer * Anant Patel & Eleni Ioannou *
& Jay Patel
Mayur Patel & Deepali Nangia Nitin Patel (1995)
Satish & Yamini Patel
Subhas Patel
Surash Patel & Angela Mehra-Patel
Paterson Jeremy Paterson
Mungo Paterson (1996)
Paterson
Patterson
Pautet & Severine Capra Pautet
& Louisa Pavlakovic
Paynter *
Pearce (1973)
Pearson (1974)
Pearson (1998)
Pegler & Alex Shephard
Pegnall (1971)
Pegnall (1967)
Peltz (1982)
Pemberton & Rose Hurlston
(1966) & Gayle Percik
Percik (1965)
Peres da Costa (1985)
Perham (1955) ~ *
Damian & Kathryn Perry
Ian Perry (1963)
Karen Perry
Mark & Vee Perry
Richard & Dragana Perry * Marco Pesciarelli & Claudia Conti
Erik Petermeijer & Julie Pedretti
Dick Peters (1955)
Nick Peters (1978)
William & Katharine Peters
Richard Petty (1983)
Stephen & Sheila Pevsner
Michael Phelps (1950)
Richard (1983) & Annamarie Phelps *
Pom Phetrung
Alan Phillips (1955) ~ Alex Phillips
Andrew Phillips (1978)
Catherine Phillips
John Phillips
Nicholas Phillips
Ron Phillips (1957)
Steve Phillips (1975)
Daniel Philpott & Susan Storer
Matthew & Jo Pickering
Robert & Yvette Pierce Jones *
Louis Pieris (2015)
Roly Piggott (1956)
Giles & Kerynne Pilbrow
Rennie Pilgrem & Jasmine Daines Pilgrem
Arjun Pillai
Alan Pinnock (1945)
Philip Pirie
Paola Placido
Ronald Plascow (1974)
Alex (1983) & Jayne Plavsic * Tushar & Kavita Poddar
Yuri Poliakov & Sofia Bagirova
Christina Pollarolo
Alberto & Stefanie Polleri
Vasiles Polydorou (1999)
Vaughan Pomeroy (1970)
John & Ramona Poole
Leslie Popham (1966)
Peter Popham (1970)
Pedro Porfirio & Ana Regina Porfirio
Bob Potter (1966)
Ivan Poulton (1941) ~
Maisie Poulton
Mark Povey & Samantha Wagner
Andreas Povlsen & Tala Mikdashi *
Georgia Powell
Norman Powell (1951)
Nick & Jane Poyntz
Joel Poznansky (1976) *
Mark Poznansky (1979)
Antoine Pradayrol & Sandrine Delarue Pradayrol
Neil Pratt (1994)
Bronagh Preston
Nick & Bridget Preston
Edward Prettejohn (1942) ~ *
David Price (1974)
Howard & Jackie Price
Jamie Priestley & Tatiana Wait
Nick & Tamsin Priestley
James Priory
Adam Pritchard
Jasmine Pritchard
René Pritchard & Susan McIntyre
Andrew Procter & Cate Guthleben *
Joerg & Birgit Prophet
Tony Protts (1972)
Graham Proud (1997)
Margaret Proudnikova
Gennaro & Sabrina Pucci *
Jorge Puchol Grifol *
David & Linda Pugh
Edward & Susie Pugh
Izzy Pugh
Verity Pugh (2010)
Benedict Pulsford & Lucy Astor
Uma Purang
Terence Purser (1956)
Josh Purvis & Nancy Ross
& Julie Quadrio Curzio *
The 1624 Society was created to recognise those who have made provision for the Latymer Foundation in their will. Legacies play a key role in building our endowment and help us to protect our founder’s legacy for future generations of Latymerians.
Andy Anderson (1958) Graham Angel (1957)
Arundel (1967)
Baines (1951)
Barnes (1955)
Beavis (1942)
Bird (1958)
Bowden (1942)
Brinton (1961)
Budd (1967)
Budd (1959)
Burges (1972)
Burkitt (1963)
Carley (1952)
David (1972)
Davison (1962)
Downing (1971)
du Plessis (2008)
Eades (1965)
Exell (1951)
Fairney (1960)
Faktor (1974)
Fann (1950)
Foot (1965)
Fox (1984)
Francis (1985)
Gardiner (1965)
Godfrey (1964)
Gore (1956)
Graham (1976)
Grant (1976)
Grant (1960)
Green (1962)
Grime (1978)
Guilbride (1973)
Hanney (1971)
(1975)
(1954)
Hayter (1945)
(1954)
(1957)
(1954)
Hodges (1972)
(1953)
Hughes (1960)
Hutton-Penman (1961)
Jones (1957)
Jordan (1975)
Kauders (1966)
Kessel (1971)
(1950)
Leefield (1956)
Lewis (1962)
(1971)
McQuillan (1966)
(1956)
(1991)
Munro (1981)
(1948)
Newberry (1957)
Niekirk (1963)
Normington (1974)
(1950)
Pinnock (1945)
(1963)
Redman (1953)
Reupke (1955)
Sacré (1964)
Sinstead (1947)
(1955)
(1954)
(1958)
Southcott (1968)
Spence (1948)
Stanbury (1953)
Steward (1972)
Talbot (1964)
Thompson (1950)
Thompson (1962)
Thorpe (1955)
Toop (1984)
Uberoi (1991)
Uren (1972)
(1961)
(1977)
Warwicker (1948)
Wheater (1978)
Willats (1962)
Williams (1963)
Woolley (1972)
Woolner (1958)
Wotton (1971)
Wyatt (1962)
Yates (1962)
1624 Society
(1952)
(1943)
(1951)
(1947)
(1945)
(1931)
(1950)
(1948)
(1942)
(1952)
(1954)
(1944)
INSPIRING MINDS CAMPAIGN BOARD
Guy and Dominique America
Adam (1990) and Bex Balon
Judy Bollinger (stepped down 2018)
John and Kate Carrafiell
Massimo Della Ragione and Valentina Pan
Dominik and Karen Dolenec
Marcus and Liz Evans
Federico and Christine Foglia
Goya Gallagher Sawiris
David Goodhew (ex-officio)
Hugh Grant (1978)
Jamie Grant (1976)
John and Christine Gregg
Stephen Hodges (1972)
Laurence Hopkins (1991, ex-officio)
Louisa Leventis
Javad and Narmina Marandi
Michael Maras
Megha Mittal
Klaus and Sanne Oestergaard
Christian Rochat and Myrto Papadopoulos
Rochat
Stan and Anne Rotman
Amanda Scott (ex-officio)
Hugh Sloane (1974, stepped down 2019)
Ros Sweeting (ex-officio)
Georg and Emily von Opel
Martin Wade (1961)
David and Traci Weaver
Nigel Woolner (1958)
John Wotton (1971)
LATYMER FOUNDATION CONTACTS
Amanda Scott
Executive Director
T 020 3004 0465
E ams@latymerfoundation.org
Siân Davis
Alumni Relations Manager
T 020 3004 0470
E sdd@latymerfoundation.org
Natasha Nolan
Appeals Manager
T 020 3004 0434
E njn@latymerfoundation.org
Ros Sweeting (Chair) Gubby Ayida
Campbell
Reverend Simon Downham
Jamie Grant (1976)
Kieran Murphy (1976)
Annamarie Phelps
Alex Plavsic (1983)
David Price (1974)
James Priory
Tracey Scoffield
Bobby Uberoi (1991)
Charlie Wijeratna (1986) Clerk to the Governors: Lucinda Evans
People should become involved because it gives young people the opportunity to come to a fantastic school with great facilities and great teaching and fulfil their potential. I don’t think there’s anything more important than young people being able to fulfil their potential and go on to do good things in the world. Latymer has taught me that there is no impossible dream or goal, that all we have to do is work hard and we will achieve our aims, no matter how high they may seem to be. Support our Campaign
latymerfoundation.org/donate