Bursaries
212% increase in means-tested bursary support since 2012 to over £3.5 million
Bursaries today Dulwich College currently provides financial support in the form of scholarships or means-tested bursaries to 32% of boys in the senior school. We work with local primary schools to promote our bursary programme, encouraging local boys to apply for support, which helps us to maintain our diversity and to support social mobility. 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. In 2018-19, the College spent over £3.5 million on bursary support, providing financial assistance to 191 boys. The majority of these benefited from fee remission of more than 75%. As we look ahead to the future of the College and what this might mean for the sustainability of bursaries, we turn to the whole school community to help us build our Bursary Appeal Fund, the income from which will fund these places in perpetuity.
Dulwich College is proud to celebrate a long history of providing an outstanding education to bright boys from all social and ethnic backgrounds. In 1619, our founder Edward Alleyn had the philanthropic foresight to recognise that education should be for all, regardless of financial circumstance, through his establishment of the College of God’s Gift to provide ‘good learning’ to ‘twelve poor scholars’. This social mission remains at the heart of the College today and our ambition is to provide fee assistance to 50% of our pupils whose families are unable to meet the cost of fees. Many Old Alleynians will remember – and have been beneficiaries of –the ‘Dulwich Experiment’, which began in the 1940s by the then Master of the College, Christopher Gilkes. Under this scheme the fees of boys who passed the entrance examinations were paid for by local authorities. During the 1950s and 1960s as many as 85% of pupils at the College were recipients of such support. Local authority funding was replaced by the central government’s Assisted Places Scheme in 1980, which continued until 1997. Since 1997, the College has relied on philanthropic support and its own financial resources to fund bursary places. Our Bursary Appeal Fund, consisting mainly of a ring-fenced endowment, today stands at £15.5 million (including some non-endowment donations). Over £7 million of this has been added since 2014 thanks to the incredible generosity of our benefactors. The Bursary Appeal Fund is currently able to support approximately 14% of the bursaries we offer. All bursaries are means-tested and reviewed annually, ranging from 10% to 100% of fee support.
To learn more about bursaries , please visit the College website dulwich.org.uk/support-us/bursaries
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