The Foundation is constantly striving to enrich the lives of boys in the School through a range of projects. Projects for which we are currently seeking funds are listed below. A number of OS, parents and others associated with the School have already supported the Foundation. Please click here to see what a difference these contributions have made.
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 "I believe that Sherborne is not just a good school, but a great school. It offers so much, both to the very talented and to the less talented but hard-working and decent boy. It stands firm in the defence of many values which other schools have shied away from protecting and is a genuine community wherein people care for each other. It ought to be open to a wider cross-section of boys than it currently is."
Richard Hodder-Williams, Chairman of Governors
As you can see from the above extract, Sherborne is committed to widening access through the provision of bursaries for boys whose families would not otherwise be able to afford the fees. (Click here to see the full article in the School's magazine, Vivat, 2009/10).
Having already funded six boys through the School, Sherborne Foundation's work has already formed a very important part of this endeavour, but we are now looking to expand the programme to provide substantial aid for many more boys. We hope that many Old Shirburnians, parents and friends of the School will help us to achieve our goals.
Click here to make a donation towards Bursaries at Sherborne
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The Sports Coaching Fund
The Foundation is working with the School to fulfil the vision for the development of Sport and to culminate in a sustainable strategy for success for Sherborne sport.
The vision is to deliver a three to five year strategy that promotes:
• An opportunity for boys to find a sport that they can continue into adult life
• A striving for excellence
• A sports programme for the School that follows a continuum
• A sports programme that provides a breadth of experience and an opportunity for all.
The ultimate aim will be to be regarded as the one of the, if not the, top sporting school(s) in the country with all boys achieving the best they can at whatever level in whatever the sport they choose. Sport at Sherborne sits within the parameters of a school environment where boys can undertake high quality academic, musical, theatrical as well as sporting activity for the full duration of a boy's time at the School.
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In the academic year 2011-12, Sherborne was able to welcome Thomas Maltbaek and Praise Oh from Princeton, USA as our first Foundation Fellows thanks to the generosity of Old Shirburnians.
Each year, the Foundation is looking to support new Fellows - recent high flying graduates who will teach and help at the School for a year.
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The Hardship Fund aims to assist those boys already at the School whose parents fall on difficult times and, for whatever reason, find they are unable to continue to pay the fees. This Fund will make it possible for a boy to continue his education at Sherborne, and not have to withdraw purely on financial grounds. |
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Travel and Tour Bursaries |
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 Each year, the School offers boys a range of trips, each giving an insight into other countries and cultures; for example: a cricket tour to South Africa, a rugby tour to the South Pacific, art tours to New York and Madrid and expeditions to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. The Travel and Tour Bursary Fund helps those unable to travel without some financial support.
In the summer of 2011, 45 boys took part in a rugby tour to Australia - eleven of them would not have been able to go without a travel and tour bursary. The tour's report is below along with a report from December 2006 when Sherborne's 1st XI were invited to an International Under 19s Cricket Festival in Cape Town.
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The Andrew Yorke Sail Training Fund |
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Appeal Update 2009
by Tom Badham-Thornhill (f), 2007
 "I was lucky enough to benefit from the Andrew Yorke Sail Training Fund last year enabling me to do the Powerboat 2, First Aid and Instructors courses, and put something back into Sailing at Sherborne. For the Instructors course, Robbie Edwards (another successful applicant) and I booked ourselves in at Rockley Point in Poole. To save money, we decided to camp for the week in Rockley Park. This seemed to be a perfect plan. We arrived on Monday morning, booked in and loaded our kit, a weeks worth of food and a palatial tent, onto our two battered bicycles and set off to find our site. We quickly pitched the tent and headed off to the Sailing Club. |
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