Everything about Harpur Trust totally explained
The Bedford Charity (The Harpur Trust) is a charity in
Bedford,
England which is principally concerned with the operation of
private schools. The Bedford Charity (The Harpur Trust) is the legal name, but it's most often referred to as the Harpur Trust.
The stated aims of the Harpur Trust are as follows:
- The promotion of education
- The relief of hardship and need
- Recreation with a social welfare purpose for the people of Bedford and its surroundings.
The Bedford Charity was founded in
1566 by
Sir William Harpur (
1496-
1573). Harpur was a
merchant from Bedford who became
Lord Mayor of
London in
1561. He was
knighted in the following year. In
1566 he and his wife Dame Alice gave an
endowment which consisted of some property in Bedford and 13 acres of
water-meadows which are now
Holborn. It was to support free schooling,
dowries for poor maidens and “nourishing and informing poor children”. The school which he'd founded in Bedford eventually became Bedford School. It wasn't until
1882 that
girls' education introduced.
Today the trust runs
Bedford School for boys (formerly
Bedford Grammar School[[), the co-educational [[Bedford Modern School which was for boys only until 2003, and two all-girls' schools,
Bedford High School (formerly Bedford Girls' High School), and the
Dame Alice Harpur School (formerly Bedford Girls' Modern School), as well as a
Pilgrims Pre-Preparatory School.
Today the Harpur Trust governs the five schools mentioned above, making Bedford famous for the quality of its education. It also runs
almhouses in Bedford and the nearby
village of
Bromham, and has a grants programme for local good causes. The Trust's gross income for the year to 30 June 2006 was £46,646,000, and at that date it had investments valued at just over £80 million. Its current Chief Executive is
David Russell.
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