Shrewsbury School Foundation - Annual Report & Donor Roll - 2022 - 2023

Welcome from the Headmaster
In December 2022, The Sunday Times named Shrewsbury School in a list of the Top 10 Most Generous Independent Schools. This welcome recognition of
our culture of philanthropy was based on the School’s spending on bursaries and financial support to allow a vibrant variety of children to join the Salopian
community. It is important that we widen access to a Shrewsbury education. We are deeply grateful to all those who support our efforts so generously.
As well as the pursuit of ‘serious fun’, we believe strongly in the ‘survival of the kindest’ – a culture that runs deep in the Salopian DNA. Not only do
we want to provide a diversely challenging whole person education for all the 840 or so teenage Salopians, but we also want to foster future leaders who
go out into the world with confidence to deliver change for the better. Social responsibility and public benefit are at the heart of what we do. Our
mission is to educate and empower the children in our care to flourish in life and contribute positively to the world around them.
The academic year 2022 — 2023 has seen the School continue to adapt and meet the challenges of a fast-moving world. In the year that our boys’
football team reached the final of the England Schools’ FA Cup, our academic and Futures programme saw 30% of our leavers move on to World
Top 50 universities, as well as a range of other excellent destinations and fields of work. We have continued to invest in the infrastructure of
our wonderful site, with the completion of our fifth girls’ house as the overall number of girls in the school went beyond 320. There has been
parallel investment in boys’ accommodation, with work on all houses and major refurbishments and extensions to Churchill’s Hall and Ingram’s
Hall. Port Hill and Radrook celebrated a strong final year as we moved to a fully integrated house system. The two new all-weather pitches
are named after these day boys’ houses that formed such a key part of the school for a 38 year chapter in our long history. The growing group
of Shrewsbury International Schools expanded further with the announcement of the latest project, Shrewsbury International India, a full
boarding school to be situated in the heart of Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
With the economic and political headwinds blowing increasingly strongly on all institutions, not least independent boarding and day
schools such as ours, we continue to value greatly the philanthropic giving which forms such a key element in allowing us to provide
excellence in the pupil experience and pursue our ongoing commitment to widening access through transformative bursaries. We want
to reach the point where a visitor could pop into any classroom of 20 pupils and know that there was a least one pupil in the room on a
transformative bursary. We are well on the way to that target.
The more diverse our community, the fuller the experience for all our pupils. Investment in the site and facilities benefits our pupils
and staff, and is shared with almost 50 different state school partners, through our nationally-recognised Partnership and Community
Engagement programme, as well as our ongoing support of The Shewsy, our youth and community club in Liverpool. As a Champion
School of the School Partnerships Alliance, we are in the centre of national efforts to drive school improvement across the education
system. We are part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, as some may suggest.
In this spirit, we go forwards, and we are profoundly thankful for the wonderful support of our donors and friends of the School.
Floreat Salopia!
Leo Winkley
Headmaster
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