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At Norwich High School for Girls our purpose is to reach as many girls as possible, supporting and empowering young women to achieve their full potential. Your support can create life changing opportunities to girls who wouldn’t otherwise have access to a Norwich High education.

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150 Bursary Fund

In 2025 we celebrated 150 years of Norwich High School for Girls. It feels more important now than ever to ensure that talented young people are not prevented from achieving their full potential due to a lack of financial resources.

Each year we receive over 50 applications for a bursary place and due to a lack of funds we are only able to offer places to around 15% of these applicants. To mark our 150 years, we are fundraising to support five new transformational bursaries, continuing the legacy of ‘girls first’ education championed by our founders.

You can help us offer a Norwich High education to more bright and deserving girls from all backgrounds like Bee.

Bee’s Story

Year 12 student and member of the Head Girl Team Bee Court joined Norwich High on a full bursary. She said: “I was overjoyed to receive a bursary to attend Norwich High. Being in a girls-only school is the best. There’s no one you have to impress and you can just be completely outwardly yourself. I love chemistry and go home everyday and tell my mum, what sounds like gobbledygook to her, about the things I have been learning. I love the subject and my teachers. They invest so much time and effort in us that it feels like we’re more than just a job to them.”

Bee’s mum, Jess Court added: “Being awarded a bursary for Bee to attend Norwich High honestly felt life changing. We all cried! It was exceptional. When we read the letter offering my daughter a place with a bursary I knew in that moment her opportunities for academia, extra-curricular and self development had grown exponentially. Obviously the life she cultivates will be one of her own making but I knew she was going to get closer to fulfilling her potential with a Norwich High education. Delighted is an understatement.”

How to Give to our 150 Bursary Fund Appeal

We are asking members of our school community to help us achieve this by donating to our 150 Bursary Fund Appeal. Become a regular donor to our 150th bursary fund to not only open doors but ensure they are kept open.

From a one off donation to setting up a regular monthly, annual or legacy gift, anything you can pledge will make a difference to future bursary students like Bee. All donors to our campaign will gain membership of the 1875 Society. Being part of the 1875 Society will celebrate your giving with society receptions, events and meetings; select communications on the impact of your donation and a thank you gift.

Thank you for being extraordinary.

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Other Ways to Support Us

For over 150 years Norwich High School for Girls has led the way in girls’ education in Norfolk. Each year, generous support from our school community helps us to continue enabling girls to learn without limits. Every gift counts – no matter the size.

As well as supporting our bursaries there are multiple ways to support us. Whether you pledge a one-off, regular, or legacy gift, ongoing projects requiring support include capital investment amongst our 14 acre grounds such as our refurbished Fitness Suite or planned Food Technology provision, and supporting projects like installing new mud kitchens in our Early Years outside space.

One such donation has made a vast difference to our library from the class of 1958, alumna Val Sarah. Read more about Val, her donation and her time at school below.

An interview with Norwich High School for Girls alumna Val Sarah, AM, CJSJ

1875 Society

By becoming a regular donor or legacy pledger, you will join the 1875 Society, a community dedicated to making a lasting impact on Norwich HIgh School for Girls.

As a member, your generosity will be celebrated with exclusive benefits, including:

  • Society meetings held in school
  • Special communications highlighting how your donation is benefitting the school and bursary recipients
  • Priority access to select ticketed school events
  • Invitations to pre-event drinks receptions
  • A thank you gift
  • An annual Highlights magazine

Legacy Giving

After providing for loved ones, many choose to leave a gift in their will to the charities and institutions that shaped their lives. For Norwich High alumnae, school years are often transformative, creating lifelong memories and connections. A gift in your will can help ensure that future generations of students have the same opportunities to thrive. A legacy provides vital support, it’s the key that unlocks the door to hope. 

All legacy gifts, whatever type, or size, play a vital role in our work and will have a transformative impact. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy to Norwich High School for Girls, you can learn more by clicking the link below or get in touch with our Development Officer by emailing alumnae@nor.gdst.net.

Find out more about Legacy Giving

Case Studies

1 Paris Thompson
Norwich High School Alumna

I was excited, overwhelmed, but above all very happy to be awarded a bursary award for Norwich High Sixth Form. I am very grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation for their support – it was really important to me and I value the opportunity very much. My long-term goal is to be an actress and to be involved in literature using my unique writing voice and I believe Norwich High will help me achieve my goal – as well as being awarded a bursary, I was also given a drama scholarship at the school.

I knew Norwich High was the place for me – initially, it was recommended by me LAMDA teacher as it has an excellent drama department and also a former GDST pupil who is the mum of a profoundly deaf child like me. Once I got to know the school myself more, I could see how the girls there are encouraged to be empowered and the school values and supports every individual student and respects this individuality.

As I am deaf, the smaller class sizes were perfect, since I find lots of background noise challenging when listening. Also, as the school was just a short walk from my house, I was more independent in terms of travelling to and from school.

By providing bursary awards, the school community at Norwich High is diverse and provides equal opportunities to everyone within it – encouraging a real sense of inclusion. Bursaries allow people to have the same access as others, regardless of where they are from or their background.

2 Annabel
Norwich High Sixth Form student

Coming to Norwich High School for Girls as a Year 7 bursary student gave me a new freedom of opportunity to grow, to push myself, and to pursue my academic interests. The school community is lovely. I feel that I have been embraced into it, and all my teachers have known me and carried me through.

Bursary awards are so important in supporting people from different backgrounds and with different interests. They are important not just academically but for girls with other interests too, like sports.

I am excited for the future and am looking forward to staying part of the Norwich High School family and the GDST.

3 Antonia
Norwich High School Alumna

There is no question that receiving a bursary place at Norwich High changed the course of my life in such a positive and exciting way. I would encourage anyone who is thinking about applying for a bursary to go for it, as you’ll never know unless you try. I did not realise that attending a private school on a bursary was something that was a possibility for me until financial aid allowed a friend’s sister to move from the state school I attended to a boarding school for Sixth Form. It was only through taking a chance and giving it a go that I was able to attend Norwich High, and so I will be forever grateful for being inspired in the first place.

Read our interview with Antonia here