Why we launched Be The Change

Be The Change is our most ambitious bursary campaign in a generation. Here's what we're trying to do — and why now.

The gap is widening

The gap between the most-resourced and least-resourced families in this country is now larger than at any point in living memory. A school like ours has a choice: ride that gap, or do something to close it. We chose to do something.

The plan

Over the next five years we'll raise £20m to permanently endow 50 new bursary places — meaning every year, 50 families who couldn't otherwise consider us will be able to. That's about £400,000 per place, in perpetuity, funded entirely from giving.