Bursaries are funded through a combination of the generosity of benefactors to the College’s Bursary Appeal Fund and our own financial resources, including income distributions from the Dulwich Estate and income generated through our educational partnership with Dulwich College International.
We are proud of our history and our longstanding commitment to providing financial support for talented boys who might not otherwise be able to access a Dulwich education. We currently provide financial support in the form of scholarships and means-tested bursaries to 35% of senior school pupils, ranging from 10% to 100% of fee support, dependent on individual circumstance, and we have a focus on transformational bursaries of 75%+. Our social mission to provide financial support for as many talented boys as possible took on increased urgency during the pandemic, especially for our pupils who come from low- income backgrounds. Each year, around 65% of our intake at 11+ comes from state schools, many of whom receive substantial bursaries to attend the College. The pandemic threatened to exacerbate these pre-existing inequalities, and so the College made three important commitments in line with our longstanding social mission: • No boy should have to leave the College due to the pandemic. • All boys should have access to their online learning and exam revision resources throughout lockdown learning. • We should continue to work closely with local primary schools to promote our bursary programme, encouraging local families to apply to Dulwich. To ensure that no boy had to leave the College due to the pandemic, we provided £173,000 of Covid-19 hardship support to pupils and their families in need, providing much needed support in a time of crisis and alleviating financial stress during the pandemic. This is in addition to the £4.03million that we spent on bursaries. To ensure that all boys have equal access to online learning, we issued more than 40 laptops to bursary holders to enable them to participate in virtual learning. And, to ensure that we continued working with local primary schools to promote our bursary programme, the College went the extra mile to maintain links with local primary schools and offer guidance and reassurance to prospective parents and carers. In addition to providing for our own pupils, a generous Old Alleynian supporter facilitated a significant livery company grant to purchase laptops for our local partner school City Heights. We thank everyone, including you, for your help to provide our pupils of all backgrounds with the tools they needed to succeed last academic year 2020-21. It was a year unlike any other but one with challenges that we were able to overcome thanks to the help of supporters like you.
“We knew from our first campus visit that our son Titus could develop his potential at Dulwich. Dulwich was unique in that it was about educating boys in the widest possible sense of the word, and it had a great balance between strong academics and co-curricular activities. We were delighted when Titus was accepted, but as Titus is one of five children and as I work in the start- up space, we could not afford for Titus to attend Dulwich without financial support. We were so happy when we found out that Dulwich would award Titus a bursary. Dulwich was absolutely the right place for him, and his bursary made his education at the College possible.”
“Bursaries are transformational. It is not an overstatement to say that during the pandemic, bursaries, and other forms of financial support, changed our pupils’ lives. We are so grateful for your help in enabling our talented pupils to reach their full potential, regardless of the pandemic and regardless of their financial circumstances. Your support enabled us to provide nimble, flexible and targeted support to all our pupils in need, to proactively respond to the pandemic’s challenges and meet pupils and our families where they were, all whilst fulfilling our longstanding social mission. Thank you.” Dr Cameron Pyke, Deputy Master External
Mark and Jessica Hopkins, parents of Titus Hopkins OA (2012-19). Titus, Former Head Boy, is now studying History at Nottingham University.
2020-21 £4.03million spent on bursary support 190 boys received bursaries Majority received more than 75% fee remission
Looking forward, we aim to build our Bursary Appeal Fund further, the income from which we hope will fund these places in perpetuity.
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