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Welcome to the Cranleigh Foundation

From its earliest beginnings as the 'Surrey County School' in the 1860s, Cranleigh School has always attracted extraordinary loyalty – both from its pupils, past and present, and from the local community. Indeed, many of the School’s most distinctive structures – including the Chapel, the Connaught Block, the Speech Hall and the second quadrangle, built in 1970 to the North of Sir Henry Woodyer’s warmly cloistered buildings – stand as testament to myriad people’s affection.

In 1913, the School was complemented by the arrival of Cranleigh Prep School across the road, a beautiful red-brick Victorian building, which has also seen some more contemporary additions over the years – including the distinctive St George’s chapel, with its stunning rural views.

Cranleigh, however, now stands on the threshold of a new phase of evolution. In order to meet the challenges of the new millennium, it has turned its focus towards three key objectives.

Objectives: The first objective of the Foundation is to widen access to both the Prep and Senior Schools by providing invaluable support to local children. Cranleigh was built on the belief that each and every individual should have the right to develop his/her full potential. The Foundation is determined that pupils from the local area should have the means to do just that, thanks to the Cranleigh Foundation Awards Scheme, which will provide Bursary Awards to local children who, it is felt, for a variety of reasons, should be offered a place at Cranleigh.

The second objective is to enhance further the outstanding facilities and programmes that are synonymous with Cranleigh, by providing key new facilities on each side of the road. If Cranleigh is to maintain its position as a leading independent school, it is essential that it is able to implement a sustainable development programme. The first step towards this has been the building of the spectacular new Academic Centre, designed to keep Cranleigh at the forefront of the Science, Maths and Modern Languages fields. But we have many more exciting plans ahead, intended to benefit past (OCs), present and future pupils.

A further Foundation aim, ratified at the November Trustees’ Meeting, is for the Foundation to work in conjunction with the Schools’ commercial ‘arm’, in order to raise revenues that can be used to fund selected Capital Projects that are beneficial not only to the two schools, but also to the local community.
Targets: In order to fulfill its mission, the Foundation has to meet a tough target of raising £6 million over the next five years – and today its Trustees have the same confidence as the School’s original Founders did in asking for help. Incredibly, owing to immense generosity from Old Cranleighans, current parents and friends of the school, we have already raised £1,300,000 – for which we would like to to say an enormous thank you to all of those who have been a part of this extraorinary achievement. The work of the Foundation is crucial, but would not be possible without the help of these exceptional people.