Archive #54/65: Securing our future – Lindisfarne College Foundation, 1996

The purpose of this fledgling organisation was to “provide a secure funding base to develop, preserve and maintain the facilities and special character of the school” and at the outset there were two identified objectives; to build a new library and to renovate and extend the existing science block. The Foundation received full charitable status and set out to attract and encourage bequests, legacies and other financial gifts in order to improve the buildings and facilities of the College.

The boys of the College were immediately in on the act, through the $9,700 raised on their work-day, held during the first holiday break, over Easter. The money raised was pledged to the Foundation, as part of the boys’ contribution.

The College Council, contracted the services of an Australian fundraising company whose representative worked on site. In the space of the busy first term, the amount of $618,000 had been pledged. The foundation was administered by Mrs Anne Averill who was involved with the fundraising campaign from its inception and who later joined the Lindisfarne staff to oversee the affairs of the foundation.

After the successful library project, the foundation went on to raise another $40,000 in 1997 which was used for the new science complex. Since this time the foundation has been actively involved in fundraising for all capital projects around the school including, the biggest undertaking to date. the $2.5 million Lowe Performing Arts Centre; a three-stage project completed in 2009.

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