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Everyone deserves an equal opportunity to learn, but not everyone gets the same chance to reach their potential.
We are committed to ensuring that students with talent and promise can access the College, fostering diversity of perspective, background, and culture. This, in turn, aids wider social mobility and nurtures inclusive ways of thinking.
We aim to raise sufficient funds to support two Stortfordian bursaries each year, one for a Prep School pupil progressing through to Sixth Form and one for a Sixth Form student. To achieve this, we need to secure £210,240 annually to cover 100% of school fees, as well as uniform and ancillary costs, which often pose barriers to children from low-income families.
We know that bursaries at the College have the power to transform the lives of our pupils and their families. We hear from former pupils and the parents of former College pupils who share their experiences of the bursary scheme.
“The transformation I have seen in my child since joining Bishop's Stortford College from a state school has been remarkable. I feel that my child is truly seen, and taught, as an individual and the progress made even in the short time of attending the College has been nothing short of astounding - blossoming in every direction! I am so grateful for the bursary we have been granted and to say the opportunity is lifechanging for us is an understatement.“
- Parent of former College pupil, 2021
“It was only after I'd left the College that I realised the appetite for responsibility, self-reliance and core values that my education had given me - a lifetime career as an officer in the Armed Forces was the result. A bursary gave an ordinary boy from Bishop's Stortford that opportunity”
- Group Captain Clive Montellier FCMI RAF (SuH 73-80)
"I cannot tell you how much my child has thrived at Bishop's Stortford College in every way. I am so proud. He is the first in our family to go to university. We are so grateful for the opportunities avilable from the school bursary. What a fantastic start to life."
- Parent of former College pupil, 2024
“I was brought up in a single-parent family living on welfare support. Aged 11, Bishop's Stortford College awarded me a music scholarship and a bursary which funded 100% of my fees right through to the end of my Sixth Form studies. After leaving BSC, I studied at Cambridge University and then won a Kennedy Scholarship to study at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. I am now a barrister. It is no exaggeration to say that the opportunity to study at the College fundamentally changed my life. I will always be grateful to the College and to the benefactors that funded my bursary.”
- Daniel Burgess (HH,93-01)
If you would like further information on this campaign, or would like to consider giving a more significant gift, please do not hesitate to contact a Foundation team member on foundation@bishopsstortfordcollege.org where we will be glad to discuss this and any recognition opportunities further.
