Versa: Issue Three
Versa is a biannual publication and will be published every autumn and spring term. Versa has replaced the former magazine, OA Bulletin and will offer a comprehensive insight into the many facets of alumni life.
Versa is a biannual publication and will be published every autumn and spring term. Versa has replaced the former magazine, OA Bulletin and will offer a comprehensive insight into the many facets of alumni life.
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10 11<br />
OA News<br />
Legacies<br />
The Bursary Fund aims to provide access to<br />
St Albans School for young people who would<br />
otherwise be unable to take up their place without<br />
financial assistance.<br />
The Bursary Fund is especially relevant to OAs who attended<br />
the School prior to the mid-1970s as beneficiaries of the<br />
Direct Grant scheme. This initiative offered the chance of<br />
a superb education to bright pupils, irrespective of their<br />
parents’ financial circumstances. Now, in the absence of any<br />
MUSIC SCHOOL<br />
opening<br />
On Wednesday 19th September,<br />
the eagerly anticipated Music<br />
School was opened by David<br />
Pickard (OA 1978), Director of the<br />
BBC Proms.<br />
The new facility which comprises nine<br />
practice rooms, a recording studio,<br />
office space and ensemble area was<br />
created through generous donors to the<br />
Building Futures campaign. Finally, the<br />
Music Department has a home worthy<br />
of its name.<br />
BURSARIES<br />
unlocking potential<br />
Guests including The Mayor of St<br />
Albans, Cllr Rosemary Farmer, were<br />
welcomed and entertained in the Smith<br />
Space, kindly funded by Sir Martin<br />
Smith (OA 1960) and Lady Smith OBE.<br />
Our grateful thanks go to them and<br />
the following donors, without whom<br />
the Music School would not have<br />
been possible; Sir Roy Gardner, Mr<br />
Chris Fewkes (OA 1958), Ian Jennings<br />
(OA 1962), the OA Club and other<br />
anonymous donors to the Building<br />
Futures campaign.<br />
MUSIC PUPILS PLAYING THE STEINWAY DAVID PICKARD (OA 1978) AND JONATHAN GILLESPIE, HEADMASTER SIR MARTIN SMITH (OA 1960) AND LADY SMITH OBE<br />
state support, the Bursary Fund is vital to preserving the<br />
mixture of academic and extra-curricular excellence with<br />
social diversity that is so central a part of St Albans School’s<br />
historic mission and character.<br />
We will be launching a new campaign to build on our existing<br />
fundraising in this area. Please look out for communication<br />
over the next few months containing more information about<br />
our aims and targets – helping to increase the number of<br />
bursary pupils at the School.<br />
THE GIFT OF<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Make a difference, leave a legacy<br />
Inspired by the School’s long and distinguished<br />
history of benefaction, our prime focus for<br />
the Foundation are the needs of current and<br />
future pupils. Our vision is to help each pupil<br />
flourish intellectually and personally, developing<br />
self-knowledge and self-confidence in order to find<br />
meaning and purpose in life.<br />
We strive to allow the most talented and deserving<br />
young people to benefit from a St Albans School<br />
education regardless of parental ability to pay the fees<br />
and also to preserve and update the School’s historic<br />
site to provide the best opportunities for our pupils.<br />
In order to do this, we need your help…<br />
A donation in your will can be a simple and taxeffective<br />
way of making a significant gift to the<br />
Foundation, that many would be unable to afford<br />
during their lifetime. Any gift to a registered charity<br />
made in your will, whether in the form of cash, shares,<br />
property or other items, is exempt from inheritance<br />
tax. Legacy giving enables many people who are ‘assetrich’<br />
rather than ‘cash-rich’ to make a meaningful<br />
contribution to future generations of pupils at St<br />
Albans School.<br />
Membership to the Gateway<br />
Society is exclusive to those who<br />
have left a gift in their will for the<br />
St Albans School Foundation. You<br />
will receive an exclusive Gateway<br />
silk tie (or silk scarf equivalent for<br />
female members), as well as an<br />
invitation to our annual Gateway<br />
Feast – a unique dinner at the School with a different<br />
theme each year.<br />
“In 1956 I was fortunate enough<br />
to be awarded a Hertfordshire<br />
County Council scholarship to St<br />
Albans School under the Direct<br />
Grant Scheme. I am convinced that<br />
the subsequent seven years facilitated<br />
my full career in the RAF as an<br />
officer and pilot. I am delighted<br />
that the Gateway Society exists to<br />
offer a means of making available<br />
the opportunity to benefit from the<br />
education that I did. Accordingly,<br />
I commend membership of the<br />
Gateway Society to all those who<br />
wish to support the education of<br />
future generations.”<br />
SQUADRON LEADER R A KING RAF<br />
(RETIRED) OA 1963<br />
To find out more on legacy giving, visit<br />
www.st-albans.herts.sch.uk/foundation or contact the<br />
Development Team on development@st-albans.herts.sch.uk<br />
to request your legacy brochure.
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