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What role does Livery companies have in schools?

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newsibling123 · 21/03/2022 15:52

I was wondering what role these livery companies have in the schools. Looking at the Mercer company, they seem to have a hand in very successful schools.

Do they fund them? Have a say in how they are run? They all seem grouped together in being very competitive schools with amazing results.

Is it a coincidence that Bute and Hall send more to St Pauls (girls and boys respectively) than any other school? Also each prep is not 'officially' linked to the St Pauls schools but act almost as unofficial juniors.

St Paul’s School, Barnes
St Paul’s Girls’ School, Hammersmith
Abingdon School, Oxfordshire
Dauntsey’s School, Wiltshire
Bute House Prepatory School for Girls, Hammersmith
The Hall School, Hampstead

This question is purely curiosity, own DC settled in prep and not choosing senior school for another year.

OP posts:
Orangesox · 15/04/2022 20:15

There’s lots of information available about this on the internet if you want to go down a rabbit hole; there’s a long heritage of The Livery Companies being involved in the funding and support of education at all levels.

I myself received a bursary provided by a Livery Company during my final years at independent senior school when my parents divorced. There were, at that time, Livery Company representatives on the Board of Governors, and they were involved in funding various building projects and and sponsoring certain curricular and extra curricular endeavours.

pkim123 · 15/04/2022 19:50

that's a great question, i'm not sure