Caterham Telethon 2025
We will be running our third Telephone Campaign this Easter, starting 31 March and running until 14 April 2025.
This is a very exciting time for the Caterham Community. Our team of recent leavers will be reaching out to our Old Cats, parents and former parents to reconnect; hear about their stories and experiences; and to raise vital funds for our Transformational Bursaries Appeal and our Partnership Programmes. We hope you will be willing to take their call.
Transformational Bursaries
The Caterham School Transformational Bursaries Fund was established in 2019 and is transforming young people’s futures. We believe all children should be able to reach their potential, no matter what their background. Through this fund we provide fully funded school places to children aged 11-18 years for whom an education at Caterham would not be possible. We work with local primary schools and the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation to identify and offer places to young people facing challenging circumstances, who are from low-income households and who qualify for free school meals.
In September, we welcomed in five pupils to Caterham School on Transformational Bursaries. With our community’s support, we hope to welcome six more children to the school in September.
Our evidence shows that our Transformational Bursaries programme is already having a measurable impact. Recent leavers have entered university and are embarking on careers, supported as alumni by our Caterham Connected programme. The entire School is benefitting from the diversity that this programme brings to our community too.
Partnership Programme
Through our Partnerships Programme, we are helping to give primary school children in our community the chance to succeed.
Caterham works closely with a network of eight primary schools as part of our East Surrey Learning Partnership. Through this partnership we support children’s Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 learning outcomes, focussing on English, Maths and Science. We do this through staff and pupil volunteering, sharing best practise and providing extension activities and workshops. We also share resources, and, with the support of Giving Day donations, we were delighted to open a Resource Library in 2023. This year, we are looking to further expand the resources available for local schools in the Resource Library to give all children the opportunity for a digital education.
The library provides a hub for training and the lending out of specialised learning equipment such as robotics equipment. Alongside the loan of equipment, the Resource Library offers workshops and skills-based sessions for teachers in our primary school network. The Prep School has also benefited as equipment is available for use by Prep teachers.
We have also started an initiative called Saturday Plus. This supports local primary school children on Free School Meals who have the potential to thrive at a selective secondary school, but who need help and confidence to get there.
To ensure the continued success of our Partnership Programme and to extend our support to more children in our local area, we are raising funds through this telethon. Please help us to enable all children in our local community to succeed. Your generosity will make a real difference to learning outcomes of young children in our neighbouring state primary schools.
If you would like to read more about our work in local state primary schools, our 2024 Donor Impact Report goes further into detail about what we do to help every child succeed.
If you would like to hear more about our campaign, or would like to request a call, then please email Emma Collings at development@caterhamschool.co.uk
