Welcome to the Development Office
What is the Development Office? Head Master's Letter
The Blundell’s Development Office exists to support Blundell’s School. With the help of Old Blundellians, parents, pupils, staff and friends of the school we can make a significant difference to Blundell’s thus ensuring the School remains one of the finest in the West Country, offering future generations the opportunity to experience what we regard as special about this place.
The Foundation office was established over ten years ago. Given the expansion of the engagement activities of the School with Old Blundellians, it is felt that the renaming of the Foundation Office to Development better encapsulates the service delivered by this Office. Collaborative working with the Old Blundellian Club allows us to strengthen our links, unite and build on the Foundation’s original objectives and to extend the role it plays in ensuring a strong and sustained development of the school as a whole.
Foundation Awards have been an integral part of the school for many years now. These allow those who may not ordinarily be able to afford a Blundell’s education to do so, it is the intention of the Governors to extend this provision to ensure this opportunity is available for many future generations to come. We will be focusing much of our activity in the forthcoming years on growing our ‘access to all’ by endowing bursaries under the ‘Peter Blundell Foundation’ and other individually named bursaries across a range of entry options at Year 7, 9 and into the Sixth Form.
It is essential for us to provide our pupils with an environment to achieve their full potential. With your involvement and support, you will be certain of ensuring that pupils, past, present and future will appreciate and take pride in the ongoing success of the school. They too will develop loyalty and passion for the school, thus building on its long history; therefore perpetuating the original intentions of its founder, Peter Blundell.
We will be introducing a programme of opportunities to develop career interests, to build networks and also encourage social activities and events which would appeal to all Blundellians, young and old, male and female, embracing the friendships and relationships formed whilst in the Blundell’s fold.
We are very grateful indeed to many of you who have made generous donations in the past, large and small either to the general appeals or for specific areas of interest. We are also very thankful to those of you who have left the School something in your Will. Going forward we hope you will continue to be involved or become involved for the first time, your support really does make a difference as it insures the continued development of this fine school, which strongly promotes a comprehensive preparation for life after Blundell’s, instilling as it does, the fundamental qualities of friendship, integrity, confidence and independence. These are developed not solely in the classroom, but in tandem with enjoyment on the sports field, in the music, drama and arts and in so many other areas.
Please do look at our website, it exists to provide a focus for all Blundellians, who can then maintain their links with the School and with each other wherever they may be, nationally or internationally.
Old Blundellian Club: http://www.blundells.org/obclub/
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Development Office
Blundell's School
Blundells Road
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 4DT
E-mail: foundation at blundells.org
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1884 243262
Blundell’s School together with The National Trust will be hosting an exclusive tour of Old Blundell’s on February 25th from 11.00 to 3.00 with tours by Blundell’s Archivist, Mike Sampson, and Lewis Paterson. Due to an absence of tenants in two of the flats plus the original Porter’s lodge, the National Trust are very generously allowing us to take advantage of this one-off opportunity. If you would like to attend please contact the Development Office at Blundell’s School, so we can adequately cater, at 
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