About
About the Trust
An independent charity that recognises students at Steyning Grammar School whose achievement would otherwise go unrewarded.
What we are for
There are students at every school who achieve progress beyond expectation. It comes from pure determination, sometimes supreme personal effort, and sometimes simply an inherent need to contribute to the school and the wider community. Traditional prize-giving rarely reaches them.
The Steyning Millennium Trust exists to change that. We work with the school to identify those students and recognise them properly, in front of their year group, with an award that means something.
The trustees fully endorse the school's inclusive policy, which is reflected in the Trust's own guiding line: Every Student Matters.
History
How we got here
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2000
The trustees of the Steyning and District Community Association transfer surplus funds into a Millennium Fund, to help young people further their education or vocation, apprenticeship or articles.
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The early years
The Trust gives mainly sixth form prizes for achievement at Steyning Grammar School. During this period trustees explore how best to help the school address the needs of students who are not high achievers.
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2006
Trustees and school leadership identify substantial areas of unrewarded achievement, academic and non-academic, including extra-curricular activities — students, among them those with special needs, who achieve progress beyond expectation.
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2007
The charity is renamed the Steyning Millennium Trust and its rules are rewritten to meet the new criteria. With the co-operation and backing of the school leadership, a broad-based awards scheme is established covering students of all abilities.
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Today
Awards run from Year 7 through to Year 13 and are presented in school assemblies each summer, funded entirely by donations and by fundraising across the Steyning catchment.
Who runs the Trust
The Trust is governed by a board of volunteer trustees, all with links to Steyning Grammar School — parents, staff, former students and people from the local community. Trustees meet several times a year and give their time free of charge.
The Trust has no employees and no premises.
Governance
Steyning Millennium Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1081042. We file an annual return with the Charity Commission, and our entry on the public register sets out our objects, trustees and accounts.