Philanthropy
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Francis Holland has benefited from a long history of philanthropy right back to the School’s foundation in 1881. We flourish today thanks to the generosity of Old Girls, parents and friends of the School. Our continued growth is nurtured by the strength of this enduring tradition.
The gifts we receive empower growth across many areas. Through support for our endowment, these generous contributions sustain our transformative bursary programme and help us build meaningful partnerships beyond the School. Our buildings and facilities themselves have to constantly be developed and renewed to meet the learning needs of today and tomorrow’s girls. We have to continuously adapt to provide a leading setting in which teaching and learning excellence thrives. Beyond this, we aim to share our resources and expertise with a growing number of community and school partners to help reduce educational inequality.
Educating our girls in the value of giving helps prepare them for life beyond school and gives them meaningful insight into the challenges many people face. Recognising the difference each of us can make has inspired our girls, parents, alumnae, and the wider school community to support a range of charities beyond the School itself. Throughout the year, both the Senior and Preparatory Schools run fundraising events in aid of their chosen charities.
All of this is founded on the strength of your goodwill and the collective power of our community. Thank you for standing with us and carrying us forward on this journey.
To contact the Development Office please email or phone 020 7824 5083.
For the Academic Year 2025-26 we have a key focus on the following areas:
We are committed to widening access to a Francis Holland education through the growth of our bursary programme. Our key aim is to provide an increasing number of life-changing awards for children in disadvantaged circumstances. Transformational award holders are known as Francis Holland Foundation Scholars. By 2032, it is our ambition that we will have doubled our current provision, enabling 50 of our girls to benefit at any one time. Ultimately, we want to ensure that every girl who is offered a place at Francis Holland, Sloane Square is able to take up their place irrespective of financial circumstance.
Francis Holland Schools Trust has no significant endowment to aid our efforts, so we rely on the support of our past and present parents, our alumni, staff, friends, and local community. Fee income alone is insufficient to realise our ambitious plans and so it is the Trust’s objective to build an endowment fund of £15m to ensure we can provide this increased level of transformational awards in perpetuity.
FHS has partnered with this vital charity to help combat food insecurity in our community. Through our support, we help provide essential funding and donations to ensure individuals and families facing hardship have access to nutritious food and critical resources during difficult times.
In November 2024, the SSPA will be hosting a Quiz Night at the School. This year, our goal is to raise £10,000 for H&F Foodbank.
FHS has partnered with this secondary school in Tanzania. Via the Mvumi School Trust we provide funding to support teachers and students of this Secondary School located in the rural heartland of the central region of Tanzania.
Throughout the 2025/2026 academic year, the SSPA will be hosting events with the aim of raising £10,000 in support of Mvumi School.
Katherine Low Settlement (KLS) has been serving Battersea and the wider Wandsworth community since 1924. Founded out of a legacy gift from a Francis Holland alumna, they are dedicated to building stronger communities and enabling people to challenge and find ways out of poverty and isolation. With a few staff and a lot of volunteers, they support children, young people and their families, support older people, support refugees and newly-arrived communities, campaign for social change. They offer a safe space for the local community to get support, build confidence, develop independence and resilience and specialist support with mental health and wellbeing.
In April 2026 the SSPA will be holding a Spring Fair at the School to coincide with the 102nd anniversary of KLS. We are looking to raise £10,000 for the charity.
In-Deep is a charity that works mainly with elderly people in the South of Westminster and Lambeth, London – offering friendship by way of a range of activities and services to people living in the area, as many have no family, or family that live far away, and are on low incomes.
We are aiming to raise £10,000 for the charity in 2025-26.
FHS has partnered with Rewilding Britain to help restore natural ecosystems across the UK. Through this partnership, we will be supporting efforts to increase biodiversity, tackle climate change, and create a healthier environment for future generations. Together, we’re taking action to restore wild spaces and protect the natural world.
FHS is excited to partner with Cape Farewell, a charity founded by artist David Buckland that explores the intersection of art and climate science. For over 20 years, Cape Farewell has brought together artists, writers, scientists, and young people to witness the effects of climate change and produce creative work in response. Contributors include Anthony Gormley, Ian McEwan, and Jools Holland.
Throughout the 2024/2025 academic year, FHS hosted an exhibition featuring powerful works from Cape Farewell across the school. Students engaged with the exhibition through lessons and workshops in subjects such as literature, art, geography, and history to explore the complexities of the climate crisis. In the summer term, a group of students curated a final exhibition showcasing their own creations alongside works by Cape Farewell’s professional artists. We look forward to building on this inspiring collaboration in the year ahead.
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