Legacy gifts to the school which we are able to use for the development of buildings and facilities can provide an enormous boost to our programme of fundraising campaigns.
Bursaries: All places at the School were free until the late nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century successive governments helped to preserve access with the Direct Grant Scheme and the Assisted Places Scheme.
Since 1997 we have been entirely dependent upon our own resources, and have, with the generosity of many, built up a Bursary Fund of more than £11 million.
Buildings: Hugh Oldham's original endowment in the early sixteenth century provided for the school as it grew to be rebuilt more than once on the Long Millgate site.
In the 1920s the governors managed the relocation to Fallowfield, where the new school opened in 1931.
Improvements and additions to the buildings since then have been dependent on the careful management of income and the generosity of donors. Government grants have not been available to help us to improve our facilities.
Please download a copy of A Legacy for the Futurewhich contains full details of the background options available, along with how to make a pledge.
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