Bursaries and Partnerships Impact Report
Jan 2025-Jan 2026
Welcome to our third Impact Report!
In these pages we will focus on Philanthropy at NHEHS during the last 12 months to update you on the progress of our Bursary Appeal, outline our ambitions for the future, and tell you more about how our School Partnerships programme is developing.
2025 was the most exciting year for philanthropy in the history of our School.
Our final one of our three 150th Anniversary bursaries - the OGA Alumnae 150th Bursary - reached its target! This means another talented, yet disadvantaged, girl in our local community will be able to come to NHEHS next September on a fully funded bursary!
Thank you to every one of you who gave your time, talent and treasure to ensure the ambitions of our 150th Anniversary campaign came to fruition.
We are greatly indebted to all our current and former pupils, staff and parents who have made this happen, and the many who provide the reassurance that support will continue as long as it is required by giving regularly.
As I reflect on a journey that began in October 2022, I would like to thank in particular our Chair of Governors - Charlie Altman, our Campaign Ambassador - Angellica Bell, our former Heads, the Parents’ Guild and the OGA Committee, and the many former bursary award holders who shared with us their personal stories. I would also like to pay particular tribute to our major donors, including those since sadly deceased.
Our philanthropy is now leading the way across the other GDST schools as they too enter their 150 year celebrations: all of us aiming to ensure that more young women can learn without limits.
Our long term goal has always been to embed bursary-giving deep in our culture so that we can nurture more talent and play an even more significant role in social mobility in our local area.
The number of girls needing financial support to come here is sadly increasing, not decreasing, and maintaining the diversity of our pupil body, of which we are all so proud, is increasingly challenging.
Now that all three of our 150th anniversary fundraising goals have been met, we have reflected on what is achievable in the future. While over two-thirds of the funds raised have come in since our Appeal launched in 2022, the first donation on which it relied was made in 1986. We simply can’t wait another forty years before we can offer an additional young woman a fully funded place.
While our Leavers’ Appeal which fundraises for Sixth Form bursaries will continue as it is, to accelerate our impact, we have decided to move away from running two separate Year 7+ bursary campaigns, the OGA Alumnae Appeal and the Parents’ Appeal.
Going forward, we will combine these two campaigns into a single, unified NHEHS Bursary Appeal which we are asking our entire community to support.
By channelling our resources in this way, and, provided we maintain and grow our support across all groups, we will be able to create the next NHEHS full Senior School bursary much faster. Everyone makes a difference.
Thank you for your support. We hope you enjoy reading our Impact Report.
Molly Tollit, Development Manager
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Over 500 of our community have so far given to the Bursary appeal, with an increasing number giving more than once
86 of our community have committed to give every month or year, with amounts ranging from £3 month to £5000 a year
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Our community has met all three goals of the 150th Anniversary Appeal, creating three, new 95%+ bursaries as a legacy of our 150th birthday celebations
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Thanks to the generosity of our Alumnae, Former Parents and Former Staff we can now offer one more young woman who needs that level of support a full Senior School bursary
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Through our Partnership Programme, we have linked with over 30 local schools, working with them to provide beneficial experiences for all young people in our community.
OGA Alumnae Bursary Appeal
You gave £190,471 - 100%+ of our £180,000 target
Parents’ Bursary Appeal
You gave £236,379 - 100%+ of our £180,000 target
£55,000 in historic funds
£40,287 in regular giving pledges
£95,184 in single gifts
We are particularly grateful to the increasing number of alumnae, former parents and former staff that choose to give regularly to ensure that a family has the support for as long as they need it.
Thank you to all our alumnae, former staff and former parents who give their time and talent as well as their treasure to support NHEHS students.
Alumnae, former parents and staff have given more to Bursaries since the appeal was launched in October 2022 than they gave in the previous 38 years.
230 donors to date
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£110,451 through regular giving pledges including the One Percent Club
£86,928 in single gifts
£39,000 in Payroll Giving
One Percent Club 67 girls’ parents have given one percent of their daughter’s fees each month towards this bursary. At around £20 a month, giving together makes a significant difference, creating a lifetime value for the fund of over £110,000. Their daughters come from across the school, some even giving on behalf of more than one of their daughters.
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To make a single gift or regular giving pledge visit https://www.gdst.net/donate/NHEHS or follow this QR code
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Parent Pay - In these challenging times, we are continually looking at ways to simplify and extend the ways by which a parent may, if they wish, support this cause. To this end, in late November we added the option to make a oneoff donation via Parent Pay, the platform by which parents pay for extras, from school lunches to school trips. Early signs are promising with twelve donations in the first couple of months, most of these from first-time donors.
One Percent Club
To join the One Percent Club visit https://bit.ly/nhehsOnePercent or follow the QR code
Payroll Giving pledges
Payroll giving is a tax efficient way of regular giving, making charitable donations go further while costing the donor less; for example, a donation of £20 a month would cost a 40% taxpayer £12 a month, and a 45% taxpayer £11 a month
To make a single gift or regular giving pledge visit https://www.gdst.net/donate/ NHEHS or follow this QR code
To learn more about Payroll giving visit https://www.gov.uk/payroll-giving
Leavers’ Sixth Form Bursary Appeal
You gave £16,219 towards our new Leavers’ Sixth Form Bursary
Who benefits? Everyone!
Over 340 young women have been awarded bursaries which enabled them to attend NHEHS. They have gone on to be lawyers, doctors, scientists, financiers, entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, journalists, to name just a few. Our pupils, staff, and parents, current and former, aspire for girls to learn without limits, so that they can live lives without limits. We appreciate that diversity strengthens our culture by promoting tolerance and fostering understanding between people from different backgrounds. Our community is one where shared experience at school brings meaningful connections among people from different walks of life. All our students leave us world-ready, and ambitious to use their hearts and minds to shape a better future.
Grateful for having had the opportunity and eager to use their experience to make a positive difference, here some of our most recent bursary award holders kindly share their thoughts in order to inspire you to enable more young women to benefit as they have.
A number of our families, whose daughters moved on at the end of the academic year 2024/2025, maintained the tradition of gifting their deposit to enable, in the future, another disadvantaged young woman to be part of our Sixth Form.
Our A Level students celebrated an outstanding set of results with 24% of entries graded at A*, 62% graded A* or A, and 91% A* to B. Well done, all!
Particular congratulations to our 100% bursary award holders who between them achieved 1 A*, 6 As and 4 Bs, and one who is now reading Economics at the University of Cambridge!
If you daughter is leaving NHEHS in 2026 and you would like to donate your deposit, complete this short Google Form here https://bit.ly/nhehsleavers26 or follow this QR code
To make a single gift or regular giving pledge, visit https://gdst.net/donate/ NHEHS or follow this QR code Make your donation go 25% further with Gift Aid
‘The Parents’ Guild came in to talk about their careers and it was their confidence that struck me so deeply. I’d never seen parents talk about their careers. It was a great opportunity for me to watch and learn. I thought if I can adopt their attitude, I am sure I can get to where I want to be.’
Erin: ‘I had a wonderful 7 years at NHEHS, better than I ever thought possible. I learnt all my subjects from incredible teachers, who taught with passion and dedication and supported me every step of the way. I was told to aim high and work hard to achieve my dreams.’
Nirupama: ‘I’m here because someone chose to give. And that decision has shaped who I am today and who I hope to become.’
150th Annniversary Campaign launches with the aim to create three new transformational bursaries
October 2022
Inaugural donor thank you event at the Reform Club
Won IDPE Schools Fundraising Campaign of the Year for our ‘One Percent’ method
Parents’ Guild Ball for Bursaries raises over £25,000!
Our first Giving Daya first for the Trust tooraises over £55,000!
July 2024
First OGA auction at the 150th Anniversary OGA Tea Party raises over £3,000
Tree-planting in honour of legacy donor, Mary Seager, Class of 1947
Junior School Art Auction Dido and Aeneas concert in Cambridge
Donor thank you event at Gray’s Inn, London, courtesy of Madeleine Heggs, Class of 1948
150th Anniversary drinks at the House of Commons, by invitation of Rupa Huq, MP, Class of 1990
Cadogan Hall Concert, Angellica Bell, Class of 1993, reflects on her time at NHEHS.
Junior School Rising Notes concert, performed by Dr Sole and Mr Janik
Art Exhibition donor drinks
In 2026 we look forward to our next concert, donor thank you event, Ball and Giving Day.
2026...
Our Partnerships
A Commitment to Meaningful Partnerships
Our Partnerships Programme is a testament to our commitment to enriching education while fostering meaningful relationships within the community. Many of our initiatives are student-led, helping participants develop confidence, knowledge, and skills beyond the classroom.
Reflecting on the impact of these programmes, Hayley Silvester, Assistant Head, shared: “Developing meaningful partnership opportunities beyond the walls of NHEHS has a significant impact. In a tech-driven world that has the potential to be increasingly insular, it has never been more important to collaborate with others and to share experiences. We are proud of the partnerships programme that we offer.”
Through continued collaboration, we look forward to expanding these initiatives, creating even more opportunities for students to learn, inspire, and connect.
NHEHS is actively engaged in several impactful partnership programmes, fostering educational enrichment and strengthening community ties.
BUDS Programme
In 2025 we celebrated the fourth year of our BUDS programme (Building Understanding, Developing Skills), a partnership with our local primary schools. This programme is designed to enrich learning beyond the classroom through a mixture of Creative Thinking, Public Speaking/Drama, and STEM workshops. These sessions, held on a Saturday in the Spring term, help pupils build vital soft skills such as creative problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and self-expression.
Each year, we invite our primary schools to nominate students who they feel would most benefit from the enrichment programme, and this year our dedicated team of NHEHS staff and volunteer Sixth Form students were delighted to welcome 51 Year 5 students from 11 local primary schools. The feedback from the parents and staff at the primary schools remains overwhelmingly positive.
30 local schools with which we have partnerned in 2024/5
Primary Schools
Ark Priory Primary Academy
Christ the Saviour C of E
Primary School
Fielding Primary School
Hobbayne Primary School
Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Montpelier Primary School
North Ealing Primary School
Selborne Primary School
St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School
Stanhope Primary School
West Acton Primary School
Secondary Schools
Ealing Fields C of E High School
Drayton Manor High School
Greenford High School
Dormers Wells High School
Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls
Cardinal Wiseman School
Harrow School*
Elthorne Park High School
William Perkins School
Langley Grammar School
Halcyon London International School*
North London Collegiate School*
Chelsea Academy
Alperton Community School
Phoenix Academy
Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School
Twyford C of E High School
Northolt High School
*Independent School
Kingsdale Foundation School
Two parents of Year 5 children on the programme shared:
“My daughter found the programme very informative and enjoyable. She found the whole programme inspiring and exciting. She left each session with exhilaration telling me in detail of her experience. She was most impressed with the tutors and loved interacting with other pupils who were also attending. Overall, a very wonderful programme.”
“I believe it was a special experience that they wouldn’t normally have at their regular school. It’s a programme that brings together highly motivated students and helps build their confidence and enthusiasm. I was also truly impressed by the teachers and students who guided and supported them.”
GreenSTEM
The GreenSTEM programme, involving 38 students - a record number! - from four secondary schools - has again been a resounding success, fostering a passion for STEM while strengthening connections between schools.
PhD students from Imperial College, London, introduced students to an environmental research competition, sharing insights from their own scientific work. Over four sessions held at NHEHS from September to January, students from Greenford High School, Dormers Wells High School and Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls joined NHEHS Sixth Formers in developing their research skills and writing essays addressing key environmental challenges. The programme culminated in a prestigious event at the Natural History Museum in February, where students presented their essays to a panel of experts.
The students received valuable feedback, and prizes were awarded for the best essays and presentations. The event was overwhelmingly well received, with fantastic feedback from both our students and partnership schools.
From the students:
“The GreenSTEM project was an incredible journey that taught us so much, not just about STEM and sustainability, but also about teamwork, research, and public speaking.”
“We feel so lucky to have been part of this!”
Over 40 Year 12 students from four schools attended our NHEHS Healthcare Conference in May. The event began with an engaging talk on the importance of Dentistry from King’s College Dentistry student, Sabah Malik. Students also enjoyed excellent talks from four experts on a variety of healthcare topics and careers: Dr Carol Whelan, University College London, Dr Nick Oliver, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Marirena Befaloukou, Imperial College London and Anastasia Ilina, Imperial College London. Students also took the stage to share some impressive work on cutting-edge interdisciplinary topics including CRISPR, dental nanotechnology, limb salvage techniques, premature baby care and cancer vaccines.
The conference was widely praised for being insightful, informative and inspiring. Students valued the opportunity to explore a variety of medical fields, gain a deeper understanding of university life and learn more about the application process. Many particularly appreciated the diverse range of speakers, especially the healthcare professionals who shared their experiences.
Healthcare Conference English conferences
The English department ran two conferences in 2024/25. As part of our National Poetry Day celebrations in October, NHEHS welcomed Daljit Nagra to our annual Poetry Conference. Year 10 NHEHS pupils were joined by over 150 students from Ealing Fields High School and Elthorne Park High School. Mr Nagra, whose poems often relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK, read some of his own work before discussing his writing principles in more detail. He led a number of activities to get students writing, which included a poem on the subject of things they like and a concept that could be displayed in a graph, chart or diagram.
Later in the year, Year 12 and 13 students from NHEHS, William Perkins School, Cardinal Wiseman School and Langley Grammar participated in an English Language Conference where they were treated to talks from: Fiona McPherson, a senior editor in the New Word team at the Oxford English Dictionary; Tim Grant, a professor of forensic linguistics and founding director at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University; and Jane Setter, professor of phonetics at the University of Reading with international visiting professor roles, co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. It was a fascinating morning with insight into how English Language qualifications develop into real world careers.
We would like to warmly thank our donors from January 2025-January 2026
Our current parents
Deepika & Satish Bhatia
Olivier & Ruth Bonavero
Philipp Breu & Kapilla Ram
Duygu Ceylan
Laurence Coman & Alice Pratley
Olivia Fennell & Patrick Hewlett
Peter Hale & Elizabeth York
Christopher & Nicola Haynes
Sorca Kelly-Scholte & Arnaud Scholte
William Killick & Innogen
Killick-Steele
Stanislav Kucherenko & Olga Lykholobova
Stelios Lazopoulos & Natalia
Luchnikova
Emily & Joe Marshall
Konstyanyn Melnyk & Mrs N Nagayeva
Daphne & John Minderides
Rowan & Timothy Neslen
Jonathan Oxley & Minh Tran
Gabriel & Natalie Pantea
Christian & Rowena Schroeder
Alvin See
Emma Simpson & Simon Stock
Chris Stone & Emmeline Storey
Keith & Rachel Taylor
Daniel & Vanja Vojkovic
Our parental One
Percent Club members and Regular donors
Hani Abdul-Jabar & Sally
Ameen
Moeed Amin & Amal Ismail
Sanjiv & Sharmila Antao
Richard Archer & Emily Cromwell
Sabrina Bajwah & Tariq Farooqi
Gil Bar-Nahum & Olga
Pantelyat
Matthew Barrett
Mary Basterfield & Andrew
Granger
Penny & Zai Bennett
Jessica & Martin Borthwick
James & Louise Briggs
Neil Burton & Kelly Scott
Hannah & Michael Cadwallader
Jessica Callaghan
Alistair Caunt & Anna
Charemza
Anushka & Giles Carter
Serdar Cetin & Ayse Cetin
Koksal
Susan Cleator
Caroline & Luke de Rougement
Jan Domaradzki & Nadia
Tarelli
Anna Down & Robin Down
Arpan & Puja Dusad
James & Sian Fassnidge
Almudena Francisco & Enda
Wall
Hywel & Natasha Franklin
Divya & Udit Garg
Kate & Patrick Gartland
Kristina & Valean Gherendi
Caspar & Christine Glyn
Nina Gopal & Harm Mescher
Eleni Goulandris & Ziad
Semaan
Peter Hale & Elizabeth York
Hale
Sharon Hanley & Derek
Mitchell
Laura & Thomas Harrison-Foll
Marina & Sukhdev Hansra
George & Zorana Hoger
Jinye Huang & Qiuying Tan
Frederic & Nicola Huet
Andrew & Noriko Jones
Sorca Kelly-Scholte & Arnaud
Scholte
Katie & Luke Kenny
William Killick & Innogen
Killick-Steele
John Kim & Jasandra Nyker
Fanan Milan Madeira
Henriques & Leonor Freire
Madeira Henriques
Chi Hou Mak & Lee Yan Wong
Emily & Joe Marshall
Dawar & Misbah Minhas
Tsvetomir Mitov & Svetlana
Nihtyanova
Andrew Macdonald
Gordon & Sarah McManus
Douglas & Grace Moody-Stuart
Raja & Sally Pagadala
Gabriel & Natalie Pantea
Anish & Zena Patel
Manesh Patel & Gurwinder
Rayat
Mitul Patel & Neesha Patel
Sanjeev Rajakulendran & Lavanya Sankaran
Abdelkader & Mai Ratnani
David & Kristin Roth Ey
Catherine & William Saunders
Amelia & Patrick Stubbs
Tajinder Sidhu & Denise Wong
Michele Swaine
Kelly & Tamara Williams
Ashley & Cathy Winston
Meconen & Sarah Yosief
Our Leavers of 2025
Adrian Asher & Amy Harms
Hannah & Michael Cadwallader
Helen & Simon Clarke
Mark & Sherry Clemens
Stephen Cooper & Victoria Smith
Amelia & Gordon Dunlop
Innogen & William KillickSteele
Douglas & Grace Moody-Stuart
Gayathri Perera & Tushar
Salukhe
Valeriu Razlog & Viktoria
Razlog
David & Kristin Roth-Ey
Jim & Michelle Taylor
Conrad & Louise Troy
Our Alumnae
Ruby Gordon-Wilson 1946
Madeleine Heggs 1948
Patricia Cuthbert 1950
Enid Bateman 1951
Ruth Edwards 1957
Jamila Gavin 1957
Margaret Leyland 1957
Hilary Strong 1958
Linden Mair 1959
Paula Evans 1961
Carolyn King 1961
Angela Fawcett 1962
Cherry Beadsworth 1965
Frances Davison-Oubridge 1965
Anne Irvine 1965
Janet Scott 1965
Priscilla Mann 1967
Caroline Shaw 1968
Hilary Sellers 1968
Vanessa Hammond 1970
Megan Davies 1972
Clare Johnson 1973
Dawn Slaughter 1973
Karen Taube 1973
Ann Easton 1975
Sue Gaastra 1975
Alison Henshaw 1976
Glynis Hillier 1976
Nicky Sargent 1981
Susan McCraith 1981
Melissa Sheard 1985
Justine Clark 1986
Bryony Cove 1989
Jane Day 1991
Isobel Hammond 1992
Suet-Ping Liu 1994
Marie-Lise Quaradeghini 1994
Natasha Mulvihill 1995
Catherine Barber 1996
Kira Gilbert 1999
Hiral Jhala 2013
Miranda Simmons 2020
Our former parents and staff
Sarah Burke
Dalwinder & Satbir Dhillon
Janet Dowie
Premila & Satish Jhala
Fiona Howe & Gareth Jones
Thomas Kiedrowski & Maria Ouli
Diana & Peter McKie
Alexander & Lucinda MacPherson
Leslie Porter
Victoria Snodin
Paul Thompson & Jane Walker
Susan Whitfield
Plus attendees of the Rising Notes and Dido & Aeneas concerts and the OGA Tea Party, and other anonymous donors
Everyone Makes A Difference
If you would like to discuss a donation or have any questions about our Bursary Programme then please contact Molly Tollit, our Development Manager, at development@nhehs.gdst.net
