Raising the future

While instilling confidence, creativity, kindness, and resilience remains fundamental to a Ludgrove education, our challenge is to complement and support these values in the face of accelerating change.

This is why Ludgrove has launched a major new campaign, ‘Raising the Future’, to support a range of exciting initiatives designed to equip our boys to succeed in, and contribute to, the challenging world in which they will live and work.

It comprises three pillarstransformational bursaries, School development and sustainability - the first of which also underpins our mission to make Ludgrove more accessible to talented and inspiring boys who can only take up a place here with full fee support.

To this end, for the past five years Ludgrove has fully funded a number of places for boys for Years 7 and 8, identified for us by the Royal National Children’s

SpringBoard Foundation, and for whom the opportunities and care offered by the School are life-changing.

This work has now been expanded with the creation of The Ludgrove Foundation Awards: an enduring programme of transformational bursaries funded by donors.

For more information about how you can support the ‘Raising the Future’ campaign, please email development@ ludgroveschool.co.uk

Commitment to community outreach

Sharing opportunity is not just about our Foundation Awards programme. Ludgrove School also funds a Community Outreach Co-ordinator with a budget to provide enrichment and support opportunities for seven local schools.

Working with a group of schools like this means the School can unlock and organise opportunities that would not be available to one single school. Activities include:

Wescott Infant School and Westende Junior schools – funding music teaching including a singing teacher to support KS1 singing and the school choir.

St Crispin’s Reading Project – this project aims to enhance Year 7 reading and aid with Year 6 to Year 7 transition.

St Crispin’s Mental Health Project – this funds a mental health support worker to provide both 1-2-1 and group work with Year 7 students focused on making them feel safe and happy in and out of school.

St. Crispin’s Parenting Project - this project runs a number of courses for parents of children in Years 6-8 to provide them with the tools to better support their children’s learning and manage challenging behaviour.

The work of the Royal National SpringBoard Foundation

In the past 10 years, the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation (RNCSF) has seeded important changes in the relationships among state boarding and independent schools and social care –offering new possibilities for social mobility.

The RNCSF works with community groups, local authorities and referring schools to recognise children for whom a boarding or independent day school might provide the environment they most need. It also helps to identify which school might best suit them and their family.