Our Alumni Office is always busy building awareness, engagement and support for King’s by offering programmes of value to alumni and supporters.

Gemma Carvell, Head of Development Tel: 01244 689 492 Email: gemmacarvell@kingschester.co.uk. Gemma is responsible for the development and delivery of King’s Fundraising and Alumni Relations Strategies.

Gina Whittlestone, Alumni Relations Coordinator & Admissions Assistant Tel: 01244 689 491 Email: ginawhittlestone@kingschester.co.uk. Gina provides vital administrative support to the Alumni Office, particularly helping with our busy programme of events, communications and database management. Gina would love to hear about your success stories, and how your experiences during your time here have shaped your life. Gina is also your first port of call for changes to contact details.

The Alumni Team

Gemma & Gina

We care about staying in touch with our alumni. It’s important that we let you know what’s going on at your school and within your alumni network. Make sure you don’t miss out on exciting alumni events, school news and opportunities around the world by sharing your details and contact preferences with us.

The collection contains original documents dating back to the late 18th century. It also includes hundreds of photographs from the 1870s onwards. Silver cups, medals, school uniform and other artefacts are also held. There is a complete collection of issues of the school magazine, which started publication in 1885. Our school registers list names of pupils dating back to 1541. Clerk to the Governors’ collections contain cash books, ledgers, boarding house books, architectural plans and drawings. Press cuttings from local newspapers detailing school events, developments and former pupil’s successes and achievements have been incorporated into scrap books.

The earliest records mentioning the school and its foundation are stored in the National Archives and in the Chester Cathedral Archives held in the Cheshire and Chester Record Office. A brief summary of the most important resources elsewhere has been compiled. Students and teaching staff use the archives for assemblies, research for history field trips, school magazine articles and other related work.

We are committed to providing an outstanding education where ambition and independent thinking are celebrated for bright and talented children from all backgrounds. Each year we support families whose children would benefit from a King’s education, but who would not be able to attend the school without the financial assistance of a bursary. Each year we receive more requests for bursaries than we are able to support. Over the next 25 years, as we approach our 500th anniversary, our aim is to provide 100 bursaries ‘forever more’ at King’s, offering more opportunities to many more deserving children. We can only achieve this with the support of our loyal Old King Scholars, parents – past and present – and our wider community of friends. By supporting our Bursary Fund, you will make a difference to a child’s future and be part of a philanthropic tradition that reaches back 475 years. Every gift brings us closer to funding a bursary and ensuring that no deserving child is ever turned away from our great School.

“The extreme kindness and generosity of many donors, whom I will likely never meet personally, nor put a name to, has transformed my life” Josh Smith – Left King’s in 2013, now a Publicist at Faber & Faber, London

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