Palace for Life, the official charitable foundation of Crystal Palace Football Club, is taking part in this year’s Whitgift Community Summer School – with the club’s coaches running a soccer school as the week’s grand finale. The partnership marks an exciting new chapter for the Community Summer School, which has returned this week and is,…
John Whitgift Foundation has sold its freehold ownership in the area currently known as the Whitgift Centre to The Croydon Project developer, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), to enable it to focus on its core charitable aims of education and care, and to support the ongoing redevelopment of the town centre. URW already holds a long lease of…
Local people are being invited to go behind the gates of one of Croydon’s oldest buildings for a rare glimpse into 400 years of history. Hundreds of people walk past the Whitgift Almshouses on the corner of North End and George Street every week, but may not realise what’s behind the stone walls. Founded in…
John Whitgift Foundation has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer. Becky Allison, currently Director of Finance and Operations at Trinity School, moves to the Foundation in June 2026. The John Whitgift Foundation runs two outstanding independent schools, Whitgift School and Trinity School, supported by one of the largest bursary schemes in the country. The Foundation…
Residents, staff and visitors at Wilhelmina House in Croydon have raised more than £1,500 for Cancer Research UK. Staff at the care home signed up to the charity’s Walk All Over Cancer challenge and committed to walking at least a mile every day in March. Residents joined in, making gentle laps of the grounds of…
Local primary students learning computer coding at Whitgift School have shared their skills with the CEO of the John Whitgift Foundation. Roisha Hughes’ visit marked six months since the Foundation assumed full funding responsibility for a programme between Whitgift School and local primary schools, which aims to increase access to Whitgift’s facilities and raise attainment…
Generations have come together to mark a significant milestone in the life of the John Whitgift Foundation. On 22nd March 1596, Archbishop John Whitgift laid the first two Foundation Stones of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, the building we now know as the Whitgift Almshouses. Every year, we pause on this date to remember…
John Whitgift Foundation is supporting a free day of bookish fun for young readers in Croydon. We have sponsored a day of talks and activities on Wednesday, 17 June 2026, at the Ashcroft Theatre, as part of the annual London Schools Literature Festival. The Festival is organised by the Barnes Children’s Literature Festival. It’s the…
John Whitgift Foundation has completed the sale of two buildings on the site of the former Old Palace of John Whitgift School in Croydon. RISE School of Excellence, an independent educational charity, has bought the Swimming Pool and Jubilee Buildings on Church Road for £750,000. A spokesperson for RISE said, “The RISE team are thrilled…