Public benefit and the community
The Governors are cognisant of their responsibilities in providing public benefit. The College has and continues to demonstrate a significant number of areas of public benefit within its core charitable objective of conducting at Dulwich, a day and boarding school for boys in which there is provided a practical, liberal and religious education.
charitable mission is embodied in the College’s commitment to genuine educational partnership with the maintained sector and a strong ethos of responsibility towards wider society amongst students, staff and Governors. There is a particular focus on staff empowering students to take ownership of its community activities, thereby developing leadership and inculcating a genuine and lifelong understanding that privilege entails responsibility towards others. Shaping a legacy of sustained community engagement is thus an annual focus of the student Senior Prefect body. The College is also highly receptive to working with external agencies in support of raising aspiration across both sectors and has thus developed warm partnerships with: the National Citizen Service, the Spring Board Bursary Foundation, the Ogden Trust, the Advocacy Academy and the Stuart Horne Bursary Scheme.
The identifiable benefits include the provision of means- tested bursaries, which totalled £2.5 million in the year, the provision of subsidised access to College facilities for community and educational purposes to the value of £99,000, pupil fundraising for external charities to the value of £35,000, approximately 110 members of staff contributing to various forms of outreach activity benefiting the wider community during term time and holidays (with over 60 doing so in activities of at least three hours every week during term time) and a number of relevant community activities. The College has a strategy of ongoing engagement with the community, reflecting its heritage and philanthropic tradition. This instinctive reference to its Founder’s
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