old perseans
Campaign Update In September 2018 a team of 10 recent leavers took part in our annual telephone campaign and raised over £100,000 – our second largest total in a telephone campaign to date. The campaign was particularly successful thanks to the generosity of an Old Persean from the Class of 2005, who matched new gifts to the campaign. We are enormously grateful to all our alumni and friends who took part in the campaign, in particular our donors, During the 2017–18 academic
who will be listed in the donor report for the 2018–19 financial year.
year we raised over £385,000 in gifts and pledges for our An
This academic year saw the
Enduring Gift campaign, bringing
opening of the Peter Hall
the campaign total to over £2m.
Performing Arts Centre – the largest change to the Upper School since the move
We are incredibly grateful for every gift that is given to The Perse. 410 donors supported the School in the 2017–18 financial year, with 72 donating to the campaign for the first time.
410
individual donors
1 in 10 Perse students receive financial assistance.
to Hills Road in 1960. We were delighted to welcome so many of the donors to the Centre at the naming ceremony in March.
Our outreach programme continues to grow. Each fortnight Perse staff and students can be found working with teachers and pupils in one of 19 local primary schools with which we have a partnership. Each primary school specifies the kind of support they would like – from one-to-one maths sessions to stretch their brightest young mathematicians, to helping children for whom English is a second language, teaching French or running a Latin club. Thanks to the generous support of an Old Persean we are able to now offer coding workshops to two local primary schools in this academic year, preparing children for life in the digital world.
Approximately £150,000 every year is provided in emergency funding.
This year we launched a 2018 Leavers’ Appeal, with the help of U6 parents Alison Wilkinson, Jean Newlands, Liz Proudfoot and Rebecca Howard. The appeal raised over
Total
£385,350
£75,000 in support of The Perse’s Bursary and Hardship Fund. The Fund provides means-tested fee support and emergency funding for families facing unexpected hardship. 1 in 10 Perse students receive financial assistance; of those more than half receive support of 50% and above of the annual fees, and more than a quarter between 90% and 100%. Approximately £150,000 every year is provided in emergency funding. You can hear from former pupils and parents whose lives have been changed for the better thanks to the generosity of our donors at perse.co.uk/bursary-stories. 10
Funds raised by project Bursaries (including endowed): £216,010 Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre: £18,000
Unrestricted: £143,000 Outreach: £7,000 Other: £1,340
