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We are happy to report that to date, over £415,000 has been raised in gifts and pledges in support of the Bursary Fund, enabling us to support four local day pupils on fully-funded places during the academic year 2022/23. This is an encouraging start to our Campaign and provides us with a firm basis on which to build.

In line with the school's motto, Habeo ut dem, Tudor Hall is committed to broadening access to the education we provide and ensuring that we are able to offer places to girls from a wide variety of backgrounds. With the philanthropic support of the community, we aim to ensure that future generations of bursary recipients are able to access a Tudor education.

Establishing a bursary fund is a necessary step if we are to develop and secure our bursary provision for the future. Our bursary programme has historically been funded from school income which limits the number of places we are able to provide. Every year we are forced to turn away many deserving girls.

To mark the extraordinary contribution of Wendy Griffiths to Tudor Hall over her 18 years of Headship (2004 - 2021), the new bursary fund has been named The Wendy Griffiths Bursary Fund. This is a fitting way for the school to recognise Wendy Griffiths' commitment to girls' education, her role in establishing bursaries at Tudor and developing the school's partnerships with local primary schools. 

Nearly all independent schools rely on supplementary, non-fee income to maintain high standards of education and to fund their bursary programmes. Many older schools, in particular boys' schools, enjoy historical endowments having benefitted from bequests of land, property and money from their far-sighted founders or benefactors during the course of their history. These charitable endowments generate income of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, funding bursary places at their schools and providing a degree of financial security not possible through fee-income alone.

Tudor Hall does not have an endowment or large operating surplus to draw on and we are therefore increasingly reliant on philanthropic donations to develop and secure our bursary provision for the future.

Each year Tudor Hall offers a number of means-tested bursaries and other concessions ranging from 10% - 100%. The number awarded each year is dependent on the size of the awards made.

In 2021/22 the school supported 73 girls with bursaries, 14 of whom were on fully-funded places. The total value of bursaries awarded was in excess of £1.1 million.