How Your Support Helps
Continuing the Commitment
Since the mid-1990s, we have provided means-tested fee support from our own resources – from fundraising and from our commercial enterprises, as well as through annual distributions from the Dulwich estate. Your support is essential in helping us to not only provide an extraordinary education, and the opportunities that accompany it, to young people, but positively impact our community by building mutually beneficial partnerships.
Our History
Dulwich College is proud of our history and tradition of providing access to education for talented boys from all backgrounds. The education of “poor scholars” was part of our foundational mission – one that reached its height during the ‘Dulwich Experiment’ in the 1950s when local authorities funded the fees for 90% of our pupil body. Following this era, the Assisted Places Scheme in the 80s and 90s provided free and subsidised places for eligible children to attend fee-charging independent schools.
Bursaries
Dulwich College is committed to widening access to a Dulwich education, and the opportunities it provides, for boys whose families would otherwise be unable to afford school fees. By making a gift to our Bursary Appeal Fund, you can help us drive forward our ambition to increase funded places on offer and pass on the gift of education to an aspiring Alleynian.
Hear more about Bursaries at Dulwich College
An insight into Bursaries
Why I support Bursaries
Why I support Bursaries
Bursary Stories
Bursary Stories
Partnerships
Dulwich College is fortunate that our means are generous in terms of expertise (educational and operational), facilities, resources, motivation and energy to build deep, mutually beneficial community partnerships.
We believe independent schools are an integral part of the national system of education and that we have a duty to do what we can to support the state sector. We are a school of access; no school can claim to be outstanding in this area without supporting all schools in its catchment. Through our partnerships, this is what we strive for.
Donor Impact Report 2024
Read about the impact of your support in our 2024 impact report.
The College’s annual report to its supporters covers academic and co-curricular development activities, forthcoming projects and philanthropic support.
