The St Beghian Society Subscription Appeal.

The Society’s appeal for an annual subscription, launched by the St Beghian Society Committee under my Presidency, has met with limited success (13% response). I would like to thank sincerely the 270 Old St Beghians who have rallied to the call and supported the appeal. The annual subscription sum raised to date equates to circa £10,000, which is of significance, but falls well short of the target that was considered necessary to support adequately the administration of the Society and widen the scope of its activities.

The OSB Committee will therefore consider further the ongoing financial position of the Society at its next meeting.

All Society Life Memberships are sacrosanct, whether people subscribed to the appeal or not, and OSBs will continue to receive all Society communications and invitations. School leavers became life members of the Society when they left school, provided their Society membership had been paid. While leavers’ subscriptions ensured the Society would be financed into the future, the school’s closure disrupted this, and until pupil numbers increase significantly, cash flows into the Society will not meet outgoings.

In this Bulletin I have written an article reporting on the current activity and strategy of the St Bees School Charitable Trust, of which I am a Trustee. It was evident in the response to the subscription appeal that there was a lack of understanding of the Trust’s current role. I hope that this article will be of interest and add credence to the subscription appeal.

Alongside the appeal to St Beghian Society Members, a relaunch of the Society at school level has taken place not only in St Bees, but also at the two Chinese St Bees Schools which opened in 2020. With the school’s populations projected to rise significantly over the next three years, the Society will gain a financial impetus from new members in due course.

For those of you who have not supported the Society appeal to date I would ask you please to think again. 

Peter G. Lever,
Grindal 62-66.

 

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