The Craven School FoundationBurnsall, in Wharfedale · founded 1605
Sir William Craven, born at Appletreewick and later Lord Mayor of London, founded a grammar school at Burnsall and endowed it by a deed of 21 May 1605. The endowment has never been spent. It still keeps the roof on the village school.
The Foundation is governed by a Scheme approved by Her Majesty in Council on 23 October 1876, as since amended. Six trustees are appointed by the Earl of Craven, by the Rector and Churchwardens of the parish, and by the parish meetings of the townships the school has always served. They are unpaid, and they meet at least twice a year.
The Foundation owns and maintains the school premises. A condition survey identifies some £240,000 of work over the next ten years, before anything is spent on the roof.
The Foundation gives financial help to pupils of the school whose families would otherwise struggle with the cost of taking part.
The former Methodist chapel, now the Nursery Annexe, is owned by the Foundation and let to a nursery serving the same villages.
Fundraising by parents and across the Federation pays for trips, books and equipment — the things that make a term. None of it goes on the fabric of the buildings, and the fabric is the Foundation's job. That is what a gift here pays for, and it is why we have begun to ask.
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The yard is let for parking when the school does not need it, by the day or overnight. Every pound goes to the Foundation. Rates and how to book.
The Craven School Foundation is a
registered charity in England and Wales, number 529644.
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