2021 GIVING REPORT ENABLING ACCESS TO ANDREW’S THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT IN 2021 FOR PHILANTHROPY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR STUDENTS.
Philanthropy Report 2021
This past year has seen an incredible level of support from our community, despite the continued challenges we all faced as a result of the global pandemic. More than 155 parents, alumni, families and friends of St Andrew’s College made new gifts and new pledges that when combined, total $1.2 million!
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This is the equivalent of funding 35 full scholarships for one year, creating 24 new bedrooms or 12 new tutorial or music rooms. We are now closer than ever to reaching our overall goal of $7M and hope to do this by the end of 2022. Our Annual Giving Appeal in 2021 focused on increasing support for those most in need by raising funds for means-tested scholarships specifically for Indigenous students, students from rural and regional areas and Government school backgrounds. We received wonderful support from alumni and parents and raised over $110,000 for these scholarships through this appeal. Because of our community’s support, we will be able to provide more deserving students the College experience in 2022.
Scholarships and bursaries were the key focus for our community in 2021 and the College received $1,043,700 in combined gifts towards scholarships this year. A further $255,000 was also pledged for future scholarship funds. We have continued to partner with a number of alumni, parents and friends of the College to establish multiple new named, means-tested scholarships in 2021. Thanks to a generous gift from the Eldon D Foote Foundation, we have been able to establish the perpetual St Andrew’s College Rural & Regional Scholarship Fund – which is the first endowed fund of its kind in the St Andrew’s College Foundation. Other new scholarships established in 2021 included the Cairns Indigenous Scholarship to assist Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, The Vielun Pastoral Company Scholarship to support rural & regional students, and the James P G Foundation Scholarship, established in memory of James Patterson Gardner to provide young New Zealanders studying engineering (aeronautical) the
opportunity to live at College and study in Sydney, and hence realise their potential. We are also grateful to Tony Damian and the Mostyn Family for deciding to extend and continue their existing scholarships, which have provided significant support to a number of students in recent years. The College was the beneficiary of a bequest received from the late Geoffrey Bernays (Fr 1946), who was a long term supporter of rural and regional scholarships. His gift will be directed into the new St Andrew’s College Rural & Regional Scholarship Fund, so that he may continue to support these students long into the future. In support of the new Thyne Reid Link Building and other capital works projects, the College received $270,015 in pledges and new gifts. Many parents also made voluntary building fund donations throughout the year, allowing us to continue with ongoing building maintenance across the campus. A further $19,225 was gifted towards the College’s General Fund, to be used
