Giving at Friends'
Friends' Together - Annual Giving
Thank you to all our generous donors who supported Friends Together 2018. We are delighted to report that donations made to The Friends’ Fellowship (Scholarships, Prizes & Bursaries Fund) have enabled a young person, who would not otherwise be able to afford to come to Friends’, to start at the School this Term. In their letter of acceptance, the family asked us to ‘please pass on our thanks to the donors and let them know how much we appreciate this opportunity’.
Giving to the Argyle Street Canteen redevelopment (Building Fund) has helped create a new facility which assists students make healthier choices and support their wellbeing. The donations received for the online database and e-catalogue subscriptions (Library Fund) have fully funded the vital information literacy databases and online resources for students in the Morris, High School and Clemes Libraries.
We will be sharing details of the 2019 Annual Giving program with our community soon. Please bookmark this site to keep up to date.
Argyle Street Canteen Upgrade
Giving from our Friends Together Annual Appeal has helped re-develop the Argyle Street Canteen (Building Fund) into a new and better Canteen facility for Morris and Clemes students. The new Canteen allows students to better access and view healthier food choices, which supports their immediate and long term wellbeing.
On Wednesday 4 April at 3pm a thankyou event for those who supported Friends Together 2018 will be held at our newly opened Argyle Street Canteen. All community members interested in seeing the new canteen are welcome to join us.
To register your interest please email events@friends.tas.edu.au by Monday 1 April 2019. We would love to see you there.
Giving is part of our culture, a core value at Friends' since the School was founded
Following the gift of £6,250 in 1955 by the Cadbury Charitable Trust, Birmingham, England, the Board of Governors of The Friends' School decided that plans should be drawn up immediately for the development of the land acquired near the City Council hockey fields at Risdon Park. The resulting sports fields are what we know today as the Bell Street Sports Grounds, used by many hundreds of students each year to this day.
The original Focus article proclaimed:
“This field will have six 440yd. tracks, and will provide ideal conditions for athletics meetings. Surveys and plans for the Sports Ground were drawn up by Colonel Milledge. Tenders will be called shortly for the moving of the earth and formation of the main football and hockey fields, and it is hoped to commence work on the area early in November. Included in the plan are two stands. The main stand which will be covered, will provide dressing room accommodation for home and visiting teams, umpires and Sportsmasters' rooms and storage for sports equipment. It Is hoped that there will be sufficient money to include a committee room for use as a centre for old scholars sports’ teams. The hockey stand will be an open one, with two changing-rooms, sport mistress' rooms, and storage for girls' sports equipment.
A groundsman's cottage, parking area, and two basketball and tennis courts are also part of the final plan. It is estimated that a further £10,000 will be needed to provide all these amenities.”
To raise the money an Appeal Committee was formed comprising many names well known to The Friends’ School community: Robert Mather (chairman), R. 0. Mather, Colin Fltzgerald, W. N. Oats, N. G. Hutton, Malcolm Taylor, Dugald McDougall, Evan Williams and J . E. Annells (secretary).
We thank the Cadbury Charitable Trust, these dedicated Appeal Committee members and everyone who donated during the Appeal for their generosity and vision in creating the incredible resource we have today for all students to develop their sporting capacity.
The key is: 1, Future Northern outlet road; 2, Queen's Walk ; 3, football, athletics, and cricket ground; 4, Grandstand and changing rooms; 5, hockey
For more information about the giving programs at Friends’ and how they impact students please call Bill Avery, Director of Community Engagement or Lucy Loney, Development Manager on +61 3 6210 2200.