Foundation report

PENNY RICHARDS

In 2022 the Lauriston Foundation celebrated our community, their generosity and most importantly the impact for every Lauriston girl now and in the future.

608 donors supported Lauriston, an almost 25% increase on the previous year and double the year before that. 30% of our supporters in 2022 donated to Lauriston for the first time.

Donors supported our building program, as the Ullmer Sports & Wellbeing Centre neared completion, families came together and supported the supporter seats, scoreboards, and the leaves on the sculpture celebrating our School’s 120th anniversary.

The Adventure Playground was finalised, and we celebrated the first student down the giant slide. Blairholme eagerly packed their moving boxes in anticipation of the summer holiday move into the Unified Junior School, in what has transformed the “old gym” into a 21st century learning wonderland.

Donors supported our scholarship program. In a bold first move for Lauriston, together we took a deep dive into our first ever Giving Day, supporting an inaugural Foundation scholarship, and we smashed our goal.

It’s hard to believe that only this time a year ago there was a building project on the corner of Mercer and Malvern roads. Now we hear the basketballs bouncing in the Ullmer Centre, see the sweat on the faces in the Weights and Cardio Studios, hear the joys of laughter in the adventure playground, and appreciate the ease of all being together on one campus from Prep through to year 12 (with the notable exception of Howqua).

We also welcomed our Foundation Scholar at the start of 2023 – made possible through your support of Giving Day. She starts her journey at Lauriston knowing that her entire school community believes in her, supports her academic and co-curricular endeavours, and embraces the diversity that she and many others bring to our community.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Lauriston in 2022. Together, we inherited the buildings and the lands on which Lauriston stands, as a place that empowers and educates young girls. But together, we advance Lauriston to be the very best it can be for the future generations of Lauristonians.