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DEVELOPMENT IMPACT REPORT
I trust that this newsletter finds you and your loved ones well in these unprecedented times. These last few months have presented extraordinarily trying circumstances for all of us and it has sometimes been difficult to adapt to a ‘new normal’. The Malvernian Society team has been working remotely both to support key capital projects that provide a Malvern education of the highest quality and also to help the College to support those pupils whose families might otherwise find it difficult to keep them at Malvern during this period. None of this would be possible without your support.
It has of course not been possible to hold our regular events for OMs, parents and friends of the College and we have missed not being able to meet up with our donors and supporters around the world. However, it has been wonderful to see how the Malvern College community is pulling together to ensure that we can carry on ‘business as usual’ and emerge from this experience even stronger.
This positive commitment has been evident within the College itself, as well as here in the Malvernian Society, where we have seen support for the Hardship Fund, the donation of face masks, support of our capital projects and our AssistedPlacesscheme.Toeachandeveryone of our donors ‘Thank you!’ I hope that you enjoy reading about the impact your tremendous gifts have had over the last little while.
There is of course much more to be done over the coming months, and if you are not yet a Malvernian Society donor and would like to get involved with our fundraising plans, we would be delighted to hear from you. Naturally, we understand that many may not be in a position to support us financially at this time, but please share our projects with others if you can.
With best wishes and thanks
Alexandra Albright
Head of Development
Hardship Fund
In April this year, we launched our new Hardship Fund to help support those Malvern parents who, as a direct result of the pandemic, would struggle keeping their children at the College at this time. We have made a good start, thanks to the generosity of parents and OMs, but we are of course conscious that there is much more to be done as the economic effects from the pandemic will be with us for some time.
If you feel you might be able to help us in our efforts to raise further Hardship funds, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Alexandra Albright, Head of Development, at alexandra.albright@ malverncollege.org.uk or call +44 (0)1684 581 607. On behalf of the pupils we are grateful to you for your support to continue their education at the College.
Community support
We have recently been overwhelmed by the generosity of a group of Chinese Malvern College parents who donated a huge number of facemasks to the College and to local NHS Trusts. The project was coordinated amongst the parents by Minnie Walker, who has a daughter currently in the Remove and who also arranged the deliveries in the UK. The coordinator ‘on the ground’ in China was Wendy Gu, who also has a daughter in the Remove, and delivery was arranged – no mean feat! – by Shengyong Rao, father of a pupil in the Lower Sixth.
In total, 2000 surgical masks were delivered to a NHS distribution centre in Gloucester on behalf of Malvern College parents, as well as 400 N95 masks to the Royal Worcestershire Hospital and a staggering 4000 surgical and 1000 N95 masks to the College itself. Financial contributions were made by two thirds of our parents in China; this was a wonderful gesture of solidarity in the face of the current global health crisis.
Spotlight on named
awards
Through the generous support of individual donors, the Malvernian Society provides a number of named awards each year. In this new feature, we aim to focus on one award per issue, the associated donor, what has inspired them to set up their support and how it is helping Malvern College.
Hayter Award
As a pupil, Dr Mark Hayter (8.80-85) spent more time than he probably should have in the newly opened electronics lab, tinkering with computers under the encouraging eye of Richard Walwyn. Mark’s interest has stayed with him: for the past ten years he has been leading the hardware team at Google that produces the Chromebook laptops.
Mark’s father was an apprentice at the radar establishment in Malvern after it moved out of the College grounds and continued his career as a civilian scientist in the MOD. He changed his role to move back to Malvern to enable Mark to attend the College as a day pupil. Thirty years later, he left a legacy to the Malvernian Society to enable others to take advantage of the high-quality education the College had provided for his son, and Mark kindly continues to top up the fund to enable the Hayter Award to continue.
This generous award is open to pupils who can demonstrate an exceptional academic ability and focus. It currently offers approximately 70% in fee remissions to a Sixth Form boarding pupil. It is offered every two years, i.e. there is one Hayter Award holder at the College at any given time. The award is means-tested to enable pupils who might not otherwise be able to attend Malvern College to study here. Hayter award holders are expected to perform at the highest level and act as a role model for other pupils in the College, as well as be an ambassador for the school.
The current award holder is described by her Housemistress as very hardworking, her effort and quality grades being consistently high. She is held in high regard by her fellow pupils and staff alike and displays great natural academic ability and intellect. She is also very engaged within her House, always looking out for her fellow students, especially during these challenging times of the pandemic.
It is part of our wider aim to increase our provision for pupil support, and we are extremely grateful to Mark and his late father for making this award possible.
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