Securing Wellesley College’s Future
In 2014, Wellesley College will celebrate 100 years of providing education of the highest standard.
Centenary Programme
We will be regularly updating our Centenary event programme page. Over its history, the school has been blessed with committed, passionate and vigorous supporters of good education. This journey to the present day has not always been easy, with war and economic depression challenging the path the school needed to take for its survival. Today it enjoys one of the best educational settings in the world, and its facilities combine the permanence and splendour of the old with the efficiency and energy of the new.
To protect the future of Wellesley College, the school’s Board of Trustees established The Wellesley College Foundation in 2006. Evolving from an existing Endowment Fund, the Foundation’s broad aim is to establish a financial asset base that will support and build the school’s strategic vision, and secure its future.
The Wellesley College Foundation seeks to ‘Unite the Past with the Present’ and to protect and grow the school’s unique assets of Location, Education and Vocation.
Funds and Management
Management of the Foundation is vested in three trustees appointed by the Wellesley College Board, who are assisted in their decision making by the Principal, Bursar and Development Manager.
The trustees are Sarah Ottrey, who heads the Foundation and is Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees, Greg Thomas, former chair of Board of Trustees and James Porteous, current Board member. Together, they manage the two funds established by the Wellesley College Foundation.
Preserved Capital Fund
Money from this fund is used to provide scholarships and can also be made available in circumstances such as an economic decline, a change in demographics, or the need to reposition the school in a changing marketplace. Only the income from the capital investment in this fund is used.
Special Purpose Fund
This fund holds funds raised for a specific purpose, such as a special building initiative or a school focus such as ICT, and distributes monies from both the capital and income.
