Cleeve School

Cleeve School provides an exceptional education for its students. We remove barriers, open doors of opportunity, nurture curiosity and ignite a joy of learning so that our aspirations for everyone are the very highest they can be. Cleeve School achieves this by offering a values-based and highly aspirational school environment which inspires a love of learning and knowledge through the highest standards of teaching and extra-curricular provision. However, Cleeve School, like many other schools across the country, is facing severe financial pressures. Government funding continues to be cut, year on year, and we are now looking at ways to help 'bridge the gap'. We will work hard to manage this, ensuring that the core purpose of the school will not be affected, and in the last academic year we achieved £231k of efficiency savings. We have managed to balance our budget for Academic Year 2015-16 as a result of our efficiency savings, but the additional pressures of reduced Government funding and increased employment costs (National Insurance and Pensions) going forward, has indicated a significant in year shortfall of £240k for Academic Year 2016-17 and a similar picture for future years. To meet this need there is now an invitation offered to parents, former pupils, friends and local business to contribute at whatever level they are comfortable with, to help us deliver our plans for continued school development. Where would the money go? All donations will be paid into the Cleeve School Enrichment Fund Charitable Trust Ltd. (Charity Number: 1005775). The Fund is managed by a board of trustees to ensure that donors are kept informed of spending and all legal requirements as a registered charity are met. Donors may designate the use of their gift to a particular campaign or make the contribution as a general gift with no restrictions.