INCLUSIVITY Development and Alumni

Our relationships with boys, parents and staff continues beyond their time at the School. We hold many events to bring friends together and relive shared memories. It is the strength of these friendships that forms the heart of our fundraising for the bursary campaign. The RGS is remembered as a unique experience that offers scholarship and opportunities that our supporters are keen to gift to the next generation of RGS boys to ensure every bright local boy can benefit from an RGS education.

Dr Jon Cox, the Headmaster, launched his ambition to make the School open to all boys who merit a place, irrespective of his financial circumstances, in 2016. We have come a long way since then and we are thrilled that our community now sponsors 20 boys at the School. Boys that will leave as young men equipped with intellectual curiosity and a determination to do the right thing. These are the young men who will become the leaders, the philanthropists and the changemakers of tomorrow.

K. Chesterton

In the last financial year, 1361 people have made a gift to the RGS Bursary Campaign, an incredible 13% of our community. Thank you. We are incredibly proud that you, our supporters, believe in meritocracy and want to pass on their own good fortune. But there is still more to achieve. Later in the year we look forward to launching our ‘Road to 2035’ campaign, the next phase of our open access ambition.

Monica Popa is an experienced fundraising director, who has brought the community together in support of our Bursary Campaign.

The ‘Road to 2035’ is our vision to create an endowment fund for the RGS that will allow our bursary programme to become financially secure. To do this, we aim to raise £13 million by 2035.

If you would like to join us, you can read more about our Bursary Campaign and the work of the Foundation office here: www.rgsg.co.uk/support-us

Peter Dunscombe, Director of Higher Education, welcomes back two undergraduates he helped navigate through their sixth form years.

Graduates enjoy a spirited speech from the Headmaster at an event held at one of the UK universities. Football commentator and voice of FIFA, Martin Tyler OG 1964, greets the RGS boys after his King’s Lecture evening.

Because of our close relationship with the RGS community, we can ask representatives from a broad range of industries to help guide current students through their career choice. Here Dr Arjun Odedra OG 2010 gives one aspiring student an insight into medicine.

This year, we have opened our doors and welcomed back many of our community to a number of lively events which celebrate the friendships forged at the School with boys, staff and parents. These include reunions, sporting and musical events and supporter receptions. Our diary includes socials for university students and those who left the School decades ago, and we welcome parents and staff at many of these evenings. Many former students return to the School to share their knowledge of what happens next, or to give insights into their chosen career, to current students.

We also provide a closed digital network platform -RGS connect - accessible after A Levels that gives members direct access to over 2400 Old Guildfordians, and current and former staff and parents.

Miss HS Dixon - Marketing for Development and Alumni