The Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation
As from 1st May 2004 the Board of the Foundation with the support of the Patron HRH The Princess Royal have decided to change the name of the charity to the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation in the belief that the new name will help to identify more clearly the role of the charity.
After the closure of the Royal Wanstead School in 1971 the monies raised by the sale of the Wanstead site in 1987 was used to form a charity which provides bursaries for children to enable them to attend other appropriate boarding schools.
To meet modern conditions, the criteria for assistance have been broadened to cover
all instances where the home circumstances are seriously prejudicial to the normal
development of the child and where no other suitable care is available. These circumstances
can arise through -
death of one or both parents
mental or physical ill-
divorce or separation of parents
abnormality of and/or physical conditions in the home
disability of the child or sibling in the family
One condition, the original cause of Reed's resignation, is still unchanged -
The link with Andrew Reed is further maintained by the fact that the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation operates from premises in Reed's School at Cobham. The small staff of the Foundation is equipped only to support the current Foundationers and the Board of Governors makes no provision for handling general queries by, or concerning, old pupils. They are grateful that this work has been assumed by the Friends of Royal Wanstead.
In a letter from the Chairman of the Foundation (Colin Morrison) to Friends of Royal Wanstead he say
"We -
We look forward to your continued support for the Royal Wantstead Children's Foundation"
Some of the above text has been taken from Colin Sloan's website which has a detailed history of the RWS see
http://www.avoca.ndirect.co.uk/index.html
