The Wykeham Campaign was instigated in 2008,
and you have helped Winchester to raise its game.
Winchester was founded on philanthropy, and
those who have contributed with time or financial
support have continued the tradition, paving the
way for future success.
Over the past 10 years, 2,800 of you have
donated over £33million in support of the Wykeham
Campaign. You have enabled us to offer places to
boys from all backgrounds. This was our Founder’s
first intent, and is why bursaries are so important.
Our ambition is to be able to fund the equivalent
of 10% of boys on full bursaries and a further 20%
on part bursaries, helping about 200 boys overall.
In 2008, 41 boys were on bursaries at a cost of
£422,000, and 10 years on 132 (19%) boys are on
bursaries at a cost of £3.2million. We are particularly
proud of the fact that 14 boys are on full bursaries.
You have built a Treasury fit to house the
school’s collections, enhancing our pupils’
education and sharing our collections with the
public. A total of £3.5million was secured for
the Treasury to be converted into the building it
is today and to create an endowment to contribute
towards the running costs.
You have helped to encourage boys to take
an interest in the natural world by enabling us to
employ the Duncan Louis Stewart Fellow in Natural
History, with £1million having been raised to fund
the post. You will have read in the 2015 Wykeham
Journal about Duncan, and about his remarkable
contribution to the natural world in the course
of his short life.
You have made sure that a Quirister education
is available to any boy by supporting the Shedden
Bursary Fund for Quiristers. A total of £1.5million
was secured for Quirister bursaries. I would
particularly like to thank Béatrice Lupton for her
considerable help as Chairman of the Q Committee.
The ultimate gift is, of course, to leave a legacy,
and 260 of you have remembered Winchester in
your will. A total of £8million has been received
in legacies since 2008. You will read the remarkable
story about Cecil (aka Bill) Hodges in this WJ.
Bill was quoted as being a ‘legend’ in LADbible
(a first for us!). The website states that ‘the LADbible
Group builds youth communities across multiple
channels including our websites, Facebook,
Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube, AppleTV,
Google News and our apps’. Bill was inspired by
the Wykeham Journal and the stories which brought
Winchester to life, and he never would have dreamt
about featuring on J K Rowling’s Twitter account!
Bill died on 14 November 2016 and left half of his
estate to Winchester.
You will have read in the 2017 Wykeham Journal
about the most recent challenge, which is to raise as
much as we can towards the cost of the new Kingsgate
Park Sports Centre. We are absolutely delighted to
have the support of a powerful and influential Capital
Campaign Committee, with members based in the
UK, USA and Hong Kong, supporting our efforts.
If you would like to read about our progress (as any
information I give in this report will rapidly become
out-of-date!) please visit the Kingsgate Park pages
on our website, wincollsoc.org
I would particularly like to take this opportunity
to thank those who stepped up when I first arrived to
form the Wykeham Campaign Committee (WCC).
In particular, Richard Morse (K, 1972-76), Chairman
of the WCC, was instrumental in setting up the
structure, and Robert Woods (G, 1960-64), offered
sterling support as Chairman of the Development
Committee. Nick Ferguson (C, 1961-66) has taken
over not only as Chairman of the WCC but also as
Chairman of the KP Campaign Committee, and is
in addition the Fellow representing Development
on the Governing Body. The significant help and
support that we receive from the Warden, first
Sir David Clementi (E, 1962-67) and now Charles
Sinclair (B, 1961-66), and from other volunteers on
Go Bo is hugely appreciated by all in the Win Coll
Soc department. It is no exaggeration to say that we
could not do what we do without their support!
Finally, I would like to thank you again for
your generosity and many friendships built over
the past 10 years. Without you none of this would
have happened.
Here’s to the next 10 years!
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The Wykeham Journal 2018 45