The gifts of our donors – whether financial, of time, or of expertise – are decisive, visible, and valued.
The depth and range of support MCS garners ensures that the school continues to flourish and widen its benevolent reach far beyond the individuals in our care, in keeping with William Waynflete’s ethos.
Raising funds for bursaries and hardship is the focus of our current Conveniamus campaign, running from July through September 2020.
Through gifts to bursaries, the school is able to protect its direct grant ethos and the school’s founding ideals. That our pupils come from a range of backgrounds and societal parts will remain fundamentally important to MCS.
Of course, the current pandemic also poses immediate challenges for our current and future families. Donors have also had an enormous impact here in raising Hardship funds those temporarily but profoundly impacted by implications of the virus.
Our inspirational bursary stories illustrate how MCS offers support to pupils in a way that can be transformational.
Approximately 10% of Senior School pupils are in receipt of bursaries or hardship grants, thanks to the generosity of our donors. With the support of our community and through the 1480 Society, we have begun building endowment funds to secure the school’s ability to fund pupils in perpetuity.
Giving at all levels can make such a difference. To illustrate the power of regular giving, if 20 people each gave £30 per month for a year, with Gift Aid that would be £9,000 – the equivalent of a 50% bursary for one pupil for a year.
Hardship funds have also gone a long way to give support to current MCS families.
Every single penny (over £100k) of the hardship funds supporting families affected by COVID-19 for Trinity 2020 term has come from donors.
We don’t yet know how families will be affected in the longer term, which is why this will be the focus of our fundraising in the years to come.
"Both our boys are now proud OWs with a great sense of attachment to MCS and an instinct for contribution and aspiration ... I truly hope that one day we will be in a position to give back to the school and help support other children the way it did ours."
Parent of two Old Waynfletes
By naming buildings (and bursaries) after major benefactors, MCS recognises the generosity of donors and continues the tradition of one generation at MCS supporting the next.
The Richard Record Sixth Form building is a gift to future pupils, funded through generous donations and a loan facility.
See more about what this building has meant to the school in the below piece.
Our MCS community support a wide range of additional activities which enrich the educational experience of our pupils.
We are pleased to honour your wishes as to which priority area you would like your support to benefit.
Below outlines some of the school activities that our donors have enabled:
Regular giving, the 1480 Society, Legacies, and volunteering all have a profound impact on enriching MCS pupils’ experiences and in enabling MCS to have a positive impact on our global city.
Please do get in touch if you’d like to join us in supporting MCS.
Thank you for all that you do.
(Susie Baker, Director of the Waynflete office)
Find more on the impact of giving at MCS in our most recent Donor Report: