Trust Fund
Structure, governance and management
The George Green’s School Trust Fund (“The Trust”) is a registered charity, which was established to benefit the school and its pupils.
The charity has roots going back to 1828 when George Green founded his school in Poplar.
The Charity is regulated by the Charity Commission and is charity number 312691. It publishes its accounts and financial statements on the Charity Commission’s website each year.
Fundraising
The trustees do not actively fundraise. The assets of the Charity were in the main donated many years ago from historic assets, specific bequests and donations.
Administration
The trustees provide their services without payment.
Objectives, activities and achievements
The objectives of The Trust are to support George Green’s School to become a place where students can have access to an enhanced learning experience.
The Trust is run by a Group of volunteer Trustees who aim to achieve the objectives of the Trust by supporting a range of enrichment and confidence building activities and experiences for students of George Green’s School. These include:
- providing bursaries to students studying medicine, veterinary, nursing or midwifery
- providing bursaries to vulnerable and motivated students to assist them in their studies at University
- providing financial assistance to the school for school outings that would not otherwise be viable
- providing financial assistance for outings that improve outcomes in the subject area
- providing financial assistance to the school to operate programmes that improve student outcomes
- providing financial assistance for students to participate in enrichment activities
The Trust receives requests for funds from the school each year and the Trustees allocate the Trust’s funds as best as they can. Examples of funding that the Trust gives to the school are
- a grant for Sixth Form facilities,
- grants for Geography field trips,
- grants for Modern Foreign Language Trips.
Objects:
- to provide grants to pupils in need of assistance to take part in school activities; to provide certain leaving exhibitions;
- to provide for certain facilities for games, music and school educational visits;
- to act for the Foundation in respect of its land and buildings.
During the last year, grants totalling £23,000 have been made to certain students going to university. In addition, £69,302 has been paid as grants to the school to enable the students to benefit from various projects such as Sport Heal, Think Forward, Tall Ships, the Access Project, a Dance Project, a Girls Group, Geography & Modern Languages trips to Barcelona and Paris, attendance at a GCSE English Conference, the Ocean Youth Trust and some books for the teaching of English. As a matter of policy, the Trustees seek where possible to fully fund these awards so that the students do not have to make any financial contribution. The feedback from the school and the students benefitted by these awards has been excellent.
Object:
- to provide holidays for girls at the school who are in need of assistance or those starting their careers.
Object:
- to award scholarships for the benefit of pupils and former pupils of the school being female and not exceeding 25 years of age, to enable them to train in medicine, dentistry, medical services or veterinary surgery, with a preference in that order.
Object:
- to award prizes in accordance with various existing trusts.
Object:
- to assist pupils and past pupils not exceeding 25 years of age in foreign travel to further their education.
Fund raising
The trustees do not actively fund raise. The assets of the Charity were in the main donated many years ago from historic assets, specific bequests and donations.
Administration
The trustees provide their services without payment.