Newsletter Summer 2010 - the Benenden School Trust

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“ Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.The main measurable contribution is to environmental sustainability by: protecting the physical environment; conserving natural resources; enhancing ecology; and increasing biodiversity. The Design Team have designed the building to have an annual energy consumption of well below the requirements of the current (2006) edition of the Approved Documents L2A (Part L) of The Building Regulations 2000. This has been achieved primarily through careful consideration of the building’s form and envelope, supplemented by the design of efficient mechanical systems and the employment of various renewable energy options. A strategy has been developed to generate a proportion of the building’s electrical and heating energy needs from renewable sources. Annabel Hollick, Associate Partner, Hopkins Architects “ The new Science Centre will be packed with substainable features. Donations are invited to fund specific aspects of the new centre’s sustainable development, for example: • Photovoltaic cells £100,000 These are photovoltaic cells laminated within the glazing in the roof. These cells generate electricity when exposed to sunlight and, to a lesser degree, daylight. • Visual display boards for energy monitoring £3,500 Three in total - one per department ie: each of Physics, Chemistry and Biology will have a panel. It is expected that the departments may even aim to compete to use least energy using these panels to monitor their respective consumption • Living wall £20,000 This is a wall with growing planting covering it • Breeam Excellent rating £150,000 This is an overall rate and includes costs for some of the items listed here. BREEAM (Building Reasearch Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method) is the world’s leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings, with over 115,000 buildings certified and nearly 700,000 registered. It sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and has become the de facto measure used to describe a building’s environmental performance. Credits are awarded in ten categories according to performance. These credits are then added together to produce a single overall score on a scale of Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding. We are aiming for Breeam Excellent for the new Science Centre which for an Education building is a challenging target. • Solar water heating £10,000 Solar water heating consists of evacuated glass tubes located in a southerly aspect on the roof. Water pumped through these tubes is heated as solar energy is absorbed. • Biomass boiler £130,000 • Rainwater harvesting £30,000 • Variable volume low flow fume cupboards £50,000 • Automatic lighting control £5,000 • Free cooling to Lecture Theatre £3,000 • Water feature with evaporative cooling £40,000
Trust awards: funding 100% free places to Benenden for local primary school children The Trust Award programme exists to fund places for girls who could not otherwise afford to take up a place at the School. Now in its fourth year, the programme compliments the existing Benenden Scholarships programme, which has always supported candidates on the basis of merit, whether academic, in sport, music, art, design technology or drama, and the Bursaries programme, which continues to offer financial support. The Trust Award programme has enabled Benenden School to offer its first 100% bursarial awards which have enabled talented girls from local primary schools to benefit from a Benenden education, where financial considerations would otherwise have closed off the opportunity. The Trust Award programme has already made a number of awards to girls from local primary schools and made its first Sixth Form Award in 2009. We are delighted that the programme is already making such a positive impact. In financially uncertain times, the need to support legacy giving is even more important than ever. I feel very honoured to be leading this vital project and extremely grateful to all those who feel the same way. Claire Sohn, Trustee & Benenden Senior Benenden Angels: providing legacy gifts to support Benenden’s future ““ Benenden Angels are those individuals who have decided to support Benenden by making a bequest in their wills to the Benenden School Trust. Since the Autumn of 2007, when I became a Trustee of the Benenden School Trust, I have written to as many Seniors that Benenden has contact details for, as well as met many more at reunion events. The extraordinary enthusiasm and support to grow an endowment, a real 'savings account' for the school has been very encouraging and the number of Angels has doubled in the past two years. Benenden's Angels are keen to provide facilities for future generations of girls, as well as support the Trust Awards Campaign which funds free places at Benenden for deserving girls from local schools. Debra Price and I have attended lunches in London and Edinburgh as well as hosting the well established Angel thank you lunch held annually at Benenden. In 2010 we will be holding our lunch in the springtime in the new eco-classroom which is really an amazing new facility at the school. In financially uncertain times, the need to support legacy giving is even more important than ever. I feel very honoured to be leading this vital project and extremely grateful to all those who feel the same way and have taken the time to remember Benenden in their wills. If you are considering supporting the future of Benenden in any shape or form by leaving a legacy to the Trust in your will, please don't hesitate to contact Debra Price at Benenden.
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