Education
Minerva has worked closely with educational establishments at all levels in both the maintained and independent sectors.
These have included primary and secondary schools; tertiary colleges and universities; and learned bodies working in different academic fields.
Our campaigns have involved major multi-million capital campaigns, as well as project and endowment funding.
Oxford Brookes University
Thanks for all your help. Your enthusiasm for fundraising is, and has been, infectious.
Professor Graham Upton DL, Vice Chancellor
The gift to endow the Chair in Supportive Cancer Care was indeed a tremendous achievement and one in which you… played a large part.
June Girvin, Dean of the School of Health and Social Care
Oxford Brookes University began life as the Oxford School of Art in 1865. It occupied one room on the ground floor of the Taylor Institution in the centre of the city.
Five years later the School of Science was incorporated. In 1891 the School was taken over by the Technical Instruction Committee (part of Oxford City Council), and renamed Oxford City Technical School.
John Henry Brookes became Vice-Principal of the Oxford City Technical School and Head of the School of Art in 1928. Over the next 30 years he worked on the development of the institution. His goal was to make education available to all.
In 1949, the School moves to a 25-acre site in Headington. Brookes referred to the move as ‘setting foot in the Promised Land’. Lord Nuffield laid the foundation stone six years later. Over the years there were more merges and name changes. Finally in 1992 it was named Oxford Brookes University.
Today, Oxford Brookes University is a thriving community of staff and students, committed to helping its students achieve their potential and to become graduates prepared for fulfilling and valuable lives.
King Edward VI Grammar School
The Appeal was such a success, mainly due to your shrewd guidance…
Anthony Tuckwell MA MBA FRSA, Headmaster
On March 24th 1551 a royal warrant of Edward VI established a free grammar school in Chelmsford for the education, in the Anglican religion and classical languages, of the boys of the manor of Chelmsford and the hamlet of Moulsham. The school was housed from 1551 to 1627 in part of an old friary between the modern Friars Walk and New London Road, just to the south of the River Can in Moulsham. It was to be financed from the rents of former chantry lands with which it was endowed. Its position is recorded on John Walker’s 1591 map of Chelmsford.
For over 450 years the school has provided education on an almost continuous basis.
From the 1960s to the present day the school’s educational reputation has continued to soar. In 1981 it was named by The Sunday Times as the most successful state school as measured by Oxbridge open awards and in 1998 by the Financial Times as the most successful state school at GCE advanced level in the period 1993-1998. Government financial restructuring of the education service, forcing local authorities to give most of their money to schools rather than wasting it on top-heavy bureaucracies, and the end to high inflation which had dogged the economy from the 1960s onwards, meant that the decade from 1990 on was the most affluent the school had ever experienced. It is now as close to solving its long-standing buildings’ problems as it is ever likely to get.
The School’s most recent Ofsted report stated: “King Edward VI Grammar School is an exceptional place for pupils to learn. Pupils thrive in the school. They are challenged by staff to be the best they can be, both academically and as kind, respectful members of the community. Pupils and their parents support the school’s vision and positive values.”.
Our wide-ranging educational clients include:
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At Minerva we realise the challenges faced by small charities which are suffering financially through the loss of statutory grants or Service Level Agreements and other contracts. We are geared to helping charities in this position to raise the funds they need in the most cost-effective way.
