St Andrew's Prep case studies (1)

Impact of partnership work done in 2025 (ISC annual Census 2026)

• 11 state schools involved
• 501-1000 state school pupils involved
• 30 staff hours given

Impact Statement

2.3 Direct benefit

2.3.1 Means-tested bursaries and other fee remission
The Charity operates a means-tested bursary scheme remitting up to 100 per cent of fees for able young people who would not otherwise be able to attend the two schools. Currently, 359 pupils across the two schools benefit from help with their fees through means-tested bursaries, scholarships and grants amounting to £2,465k this year. This provision is discussed further in Section 3.4.

2.3.2 Savings to the state
The School saved a further £837k.

2.4 Indirect benefit
For many years, both the College and the School have benefited a cross-section of society by

• sharing facilities for the educational benefit of many young people who are not studying at either school
• sharing facilities for the educational benefit of all ages
• educating pupils by involving them actively in the education of others, both young and old
• educating pupils in the importance of serving others
• working with, and for, the wider Eastbourne town community and local region.

2.4.1 Partnership projects
For 2018/19 further projects are planned to include
• the further development of the JESP (Junior Eastbourne Schools Partnership) including shared CPD on digital awareness and online safety
• St Andrew’s Prep staff involvement in Brighton University teacher training student selection.

2.4.2 Community engagement
The new sports hall at St Andrew’s Prep, named the Goodwin Sports Hall will enable the Charity to increase its ability for sharing them with the local community. Both schools take very seriously their responsibilities to their town, responsibilities by which they wish to be highly valued.

The Charity has strong links with organisations from Eastbourne and further afield, including cultural and creative arts groups, sporting groups, local churches, the Guiding Association.
The summer concert saw musicians from St Andrew’s Prep perform several pieces together, including Requiem in Blue alongside its composer, Harvey Brough, in aid of the Chaseley Trust.

St Andrew’s Prep takes part in many local and international charitable initiatives and tailors these, among other considerations, to the age of the child. The children’s views on suitable charities are also considered through the School Council. This year, for example, over £2k was raised for the School’s main chosen charity, Mary’s Meals, which sets up school feeding programmes in some of the worlds’ poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education, as well as considerable amounts for other charities such as the Royal British Legion and Sport Relief. Other examples include crates of food which the children sent to Eastbourne Food Bank and almost 100 ‘Love-in-a-Box’ gifts which were sent to children in Eastern Europe. There are a number of valued links with the local community, including hosting weekly meetings of the Adventurers and Explorers, Brownies and Rainbows, links with a local maintained school which helps gifted and talented mathematicians, several local schools competing in quiz and maths challenges and hosting numerous primary schools for sporting events in athletics, and to hear the respected children’s author, Dan Freedman, speak and to watch drama events laid on by St Andrew’s Prep children. School staff also volunteer as governors of local maintained schools and as school inspectors. Local charities and organisations, such as the East Sussex Music School, use the School during the summer holidays. Several local swimming clubs use the facilities on a weekly basis throughout the school year. Charities such as the Rotarians and Friends of Eastbourne Hospitals use the School facilities for free or at a considerable discount on an ad hoc basis. The School also helped transport a number of primary school children on their school trips by offering free local minibus runs by the School’s minibus drivers. The School is also working with local primary schools to form a Junior Eastbourne Schools Partnership. The School’s Headmaster’s Challenge for Year 7 pupils was very successful this year; with each pupil receiving £10, the year group converted £470 into £4,810 in just six weeks through entrepreneurial activities. This money was then divided between six charities that the children campaigned for including Action Aid, Air Ambulance, Child Bereavement, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Riding for the Disabled and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Local schools and clubs also use the swimming pool, sports hall and pavilion at St Andrew’s Prep.