Big Give: over £53,000 raised!
Thank you very much to our 96 supporters who pledged and donated in the Big Give 2015. If you have not yet heard, the closing total was over £53,000, all of which goes towards building new facilities, particularly a dormitory, for the school and girl students this year. It was wonderful to see so many of you giving and securing match funding for your donations. We would like to thank the Deus Laudamus Trust for your unstinting support, especially to its chair Tim Royle, who made a dedicated effort to ask his friends to take part in the Big Give also.
Generous individuals
A huge thank you to those of you who have generously given as the school has reopened for its third year of running. Since January we have received over 20 one-off donations or gifts in kind from individual supporters, ranging from £1.50 via text giving to £316.15 sent over from Norway, as well as laptops, mini-dictionaries, and a microscope for science lessons! Some of these were in addition to regular monthly giving – thanks to each of you for giving the new and returning girl students this welcome. Of course, many of you also Wore It Green to stand with the students – it was wonderful to see all your green photographs, Tweets and Facebook posts.
Charitable Trusts
We are delighted to thank the AB Charitable Trust and the Joyce Carr Doughty Trust for their recent grants of £10,000 and £18,350 respectively, the former for unrestricted expenditure, and the latter towards the construction of the school’s food store and the purchase of bicycles and a boda-boda (motorbike) for staff use. We are grateful for our relationships with Trustees at both organisations, who have been so wonderfully generous in supporting the school in some of its areas of greatest need.
Student Sponsorships
If you would like to begin a Student Sponsorship this International Women’s Day, particularly to support one of the 40 new girls at IGBS, there can be no better time. Simply arrange to give £27 a month via Virgin Money Giving, or fill out our donation form and return it to Treasurer Gary Bandy at Clover Cottage, Stubbins Lane, Chinley, High Peak, SK23 6AE. (Please use this address instead of the one on the donation form, as Gary is currently in the process of moving house.)
Each of our Student Sponsors receives reports twice a year on their cohort of girl students that they are supporting, including photographs, stories from the girls recounting their experiences at the school so far, and comments from Director of Studies Vicky Dratia. We are also planning to include the students’ essays and artwork in future, and would love to share these with as many of you as possible – so please do join in and sponsor the girl students!
