ComMuNiTy & OUtrEacH

Tudor girls are part of a strong and long-lasting community where a generosity of spirit extends to Tudorians using their talents for the service of others.

The strong bonds formed at Tudor last a lifetime, no matter how much time has passed or where in the world they are living. Find out more about our Old Tudorians community here.

‘Habeo ut dem’ is at the very heart of our Outreach and Enrichment Programme. We believe that our pupils learn a great deal from working in the local community and this programme encourages them to consider how they can create impact in the community by offering their time and skills to others. 

When Tudor was founded by the Reverend and Mrs Todd in 1850, the 'give' might have been thought of in charitable terms. 175 years later, current Tudor girls reinvent giving on a daily basis.

Tudor Hall has a well-established outreach and enrichment programme working with local schools, supporting hundreds of pupils in our local area. We provide activities and events in a range of curriculum areas including modern foreign languages, science, geography, drama, music, art and sport to ensure our wider community benefits from our facilities and expertise.

Tudor’s Art Department opens its doors to welcome the elderly community of St Mary's Church, Banbury, for ceramics workshops and, in Banbury, Art outreach workshops run by our Head of Art and the LVI Fine Art students every term at the church. It is lovely to see our visitors (some in their 80s and 90s) share their artistic experience with our girls, as well as reminisce about their own time at school. 

Large numbers of Tudor girls take up the challenge of a Duke of Edinburgh's Award each year at Bronze, Silver or Gold level. In 2025-26 alone, DofE participants at Tudor notched up an extraordinary 1,508 volunteering hours in 12 months.

Ti3C is Tudor’s longstanding community outreach programme, involving girls getting actively involved with charities in the UK, South Africa and India. 

Each October half-term holiday, two groups of LVI girls travel to South Africa and to India respectively. Following interviews and a rigorous selection process at the end of the Spring Term, our Deputy Head Pastoral and other staff support the pupils selected to take part in this exciting and enriching opportunity, which reflects our commitment to global awareness, service and outward‑facing education

In India, Tudor girls spend the majority of their time volunteering at a primary and secondary school supported by Heal, a charity that provides shelter, education and healthcare to disadvantaged and orphaned children. Each group meets Dr Prasad, founder of the school, visits the charity's prosthetic limb workshop, and takes part in lessons, yoga, dancing, sewing and lots of sport with the children. 

In South Africa, Ti3C continues to support Sparrow Schools, a non-profit organisation based in Johannesburg that provides education to disadvantaged South Africans with cognitive barriers to learning. The girls help in a variety of lessons at the school, and with one-to-one reading sessions in the Tudor Reading Garden, created with funds raised by Tudor Hall. 

The Ti3C programme forms part of the School’s wider global citizenship programme and, when girls share their experiences with the wider school community at  assemblies upon their return, every year – without fail - we hear from them about how the Ti3C experience has changed them and how they have been deeply affected by what they have seen and learned during their travels. 

Additionally, the Tudor community supports Sparrow’s annual Celebration of Christmas service and we were the first school choir to be invited to sing at the event, which takes place at the Wren Chapel of The Royal Hospital, London followed by a reception in the Chelsea Pensioners’ historic Great Hall. 

Closer to home, we also have a longstanding relationship with supporting BYHP (Banbury Young Homeless Project).