Fundraising


The doors to the Sports Campus opened last September


STEPS TO SUCCESS


With little state funding, the Royal Latin School ran a £3million fundraising campaign to deliver a new sports campus. Director of development Jo Ballantine explains how


Our 600 Campaign Before becoming an academy in 2011, our co-educational secondary school in Buckingham suffered decades of under investment as a grammar. Indeed, several years ago, we were receiving less statutory funding than any other school in England. In 1997, a School Fund (registered charity) was established to help provide financial support. Then, in 2010, the school invested in


development as a permanent function – and I was employed for 12 hours a week. The development team has since expanded to three people, as we began generating significant income. Our students are drawn from


Buckingham and Winslow, as well as Milton Keynes and surrounding areas, and have a wide range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The school celebrates


its 600th anniversary in 2023, and we have used this landmark as the catalyst for an ongoing fundraising campaign to deliver the facilities our 1,290 students deserve. The 600 Campaign is led by the


development team, in conjunction with a voluntary campaign board of parents and alumni representatives. By 2015, we had raised enough funds to complete a stunning £5m STEM Discovery Centre, and in 2016 we launched a Sixth Form Study Centre. Since then, we’ve focused on raising the £3m needed to create a new Sports Campus.


Sports Campus rationale Long before the pandemic, the school was concerned about young people struggling with physical and mental wellbeing, with a decline in rates of physical activity matched by


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