Posts by Gary Coy

Applications for 11+ exams Trinity School, Royal Russell School, Croydon High Senior School GDST, Woldingham School, Old Palace of John Whitgift School and Whitgift School, South Croydon now closed. 18 of our 2019 Tuition Group sitting a total of 54 exams. Good luck to you all. Bursary forms submitted. Here’s to ever-increasing #socialmobility! ???‍??‍??

During half term our Art Masterclass at Fairchildes Primary School had a trip to London art galleries to do some sketching, look at what the professionals do and have some fun. Thanks Miss Aves for organising and tutoring and to the parents for taking the time to accompany your children. https://www.facebook.com/rowdownfoundation/

So it’s finally done.  ’50 Friends’ campaign has gone out by email (only those where we have GDPR consent of course) and social media (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn).  Here’s the flyer again for your info.  If you want to join the campaign, please go to our donation page.  THANK YOU!!!! And it’s not just us…

Dayna Franklin is already part of our Tuition Programme and we’ve been aware for some time that academia is just one of her many talents.  So chatting with mum last week, we agreed that it would be very welcome to the family if we could support some of her many activities. So we’re pleased to…

A third gymnast has joined our elite little group at Allstarz in New Addington.  So welcome Lexy Moores. Lexy is only just starting in Year 3 so is one of our younger stars and I am sure she will go far. Her very proud mum has said a massive thank you to the Foundation for…

We are today launching a new fundraising campaign.  We desperately need your support if we are to support more and more children.  

Just a quick news update to wish all of our young proteges a happy and successful new academic year.  We are blowing our trumpet but there are quite a few: Christopher and Ubaydullaah starting Year 10 (yes, Year 10 already) at Trinity and Whitgift; Alfie, David and Janice starting Year 9 at WCGS, Wilson’s and…

Once again we’ve had a fantastic afternoon at Rowdown Primary School for their Annual Awards, the fifth organised by the Foundation and sponsored by Shard Capital.  The presentation format changed slightly this year with all nominated pupils collecting their certificate and a £10 book token from Gareth Burchell, a Rowdown old-boy and now a partner…

We held our second fundraising golf day today, organised by our good friend Gareth Burchell and held at the lovely The Addington Golf Club.   The sun came out and the rain stayed away. We saw some good shots… …and some not-so-good shots!   There were some professional looking teams…         and some…