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£76m

CONTRIBUTED TO
THE UK GDP £6.7m
£38m IN SCHOLARSHIPS

TO MENDIP GDP & BURSARIES
2018/19 2019

OVER
£16,000
RAISED TO FUND
MEALS FOR OVER £34,000
160 FAMILIES 1,986 JOBS RAISED ANNUALLY
FOR CHARITY

IN THE LOCAL

COMMUNITY

Millfield is committed to providing benefi t to the public on a local, regional and
national scale, with the aim being to benefi t children from a wide variety of
backgrounds.

Along with the first six Indian princes paying school meals and their families access to

full fees, Boss Meyer awarded places to a healthy, fresh food during school closures.
number of local students who paid nothing. Through the generosity of local Millfield

parents and staff, over £16,000 was raised

Millfield’s relationship with the local in a few days to fund the meals for over 160
community has been steadily developing in families every week which continued into
recent years and, when the coronavirus the summer.
outbreak hit, the school very quickly mobilised
its resources to offer essential services to the Millfield is the largest employer in the region

local residents of Street and Glastonbury, by about 80% and the connection to the local
producing PPE and donating food. The school community is central to our development.
led several initiatives during the crisis, offering
whatever support was needed to the
under-resourced Parish and District Council.
01 Millfield student Tabitha 02 Millfield AV Manager

working with local primary Martin Case helping to
One of the most significant initiatives that school students deliver food hampers to

Millfield coordinated was to provide over local families
1,000 Somerset children eligible for free
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