ANNUAL REPORT 2015/ 16 PATRON MISSION & VISION HM THE QUEEN

PRESIDENT OUR MISSION & VISION HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES Our mission is to nurture, train and educate VICE PRESIDENT exceptional young dancers for the Royal THE LADY SARAH CHATTO Ballet companies and other leading UK FOUNDER and international companies and to inspire DAME OM CH DBE the future of classical ballet training. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER POWNEY Our vision is to be the best classical ballet

school in the world. GOVERNORS

CHAIRMAN THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON OBE

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN RICKI GAIL CONWAY CONTENTS

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN MADELEINE PLAUT OUR REVIEW 2 HIGHLIGHTS SUNEEL BAKHSHI JONATHAN CHENEVIX-TRENCH 4 CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW SARAH DORFMAN 6 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S REPORT CLARISSA FARR DAVID FLETCHER 8 OUR YEAR CANDIDA HURST-BROWN JANET LAMBERT PROFESSOR MARGARET MADEN (UNTIL JUNE 2016) OUTREACH & ACCESS NANCY MARKS 10 INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE MENNA MCGREGOR 15 KEVIN O’HARE OUTREACH & ACCESS STATISTICS ZITA SAUREL DR STEPHEN SPURR OUR ACHIEVEMENTS KENNETH STEELE 16 ACADEMIC REPORT GOVERNOR EMERITUS 21 EXAMINATION RESULTS THE LADY SAINSBURY CBE OUR FINANCES SENIOR STAFF 22 BUSINESS REVIEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 25 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES PIPPA ADAMSON (FROM JANUARY 2017) ALAN WINTER (UNTIL FEBRUARY 2017) 26 BALANCE SHEET

ACADEMIC & PASTORAL PRINCIPAL KAREN DAVIES OUR SPONSORS 28 SPONSORS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL PASTORAL & WELFARE JILL TAIT-HARRIS

HEAD OF OUTREACH & ACCESS MARK ANNEAR

HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS SARAH ELIOT-COHEN

HEAD OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION KATHERINE GARDINER

HEAD OF SITE OPERATIONS ROGER ATKINSON

For a full staff list please visit royalballetschool.org.uk/people SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 1 Cover: Graduate Joseph Sissens. Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Johan Persson Ballet School/Johan © Royal Photo: Joseph Sissens. Graduate Cover: OUR REVIEW

Excellence is the hallmark of The Royal Ballet School and 2015/16 proved to be another extraordinary year.

100% 100% OF GRADUATING STUDENTS ALL EIGHT OF OUR DIPLOMA OF DANCE 98% OF GCSE PASSES WERE AT GAINED PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTS TEACHING STUDENTS GRADUATED A*-C GRADE, WELL ABOVE THE FOR THE 10TH YEAR RUNNING FROM THE TWO-YEAR COURSE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF 66.9%

12 Coming to one of the top ballet schools in the NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART 12 LEADING FIGURES FROM CREATIVE WE LAUNCHED OUR HEALTHY world was a dream, I never BOARDING FACILITIES WERE AND OTHER SECTORS WORKED DANCER PROGRAMME TO thought I’d be able to CREATED FOR 1ST AND 2ND WITH STUDENTS AS PART OF OUR UNDERPIN THE PHYSICAL AND achieve something like this. YEAR STUDENTS CREATIVE ARTIST PROGRAMME PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF OUR YOUNG DANCERS CHARLOTTE TONKINSON GRADUATE, 2016

EXCELLENCE Persson BalletPhoto: © Royal School/Johan CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW

Any of you who were able to get to our Summer Performances in July will know that the school is flourishing.

extraordinary act of selfless teamwork. 25 GRADUATES JOINED 15 These staff have the profound gratitude and COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD admiration of the Governors. The students IN 2015/16: and staff have settled into their new home JOSEPH SISSENS THE ROYAL BALLET and are taking advantage of its proximity to , the neighbourhood and all GABRIEL ANDERSON ROYAL BALLET the improved facilities compared to our old AITOR GALENDE BRIZUELA buildings at Baron’s Court. Our thanks, as ever, to the munificence of the donors, especially ESTELLE BOVAY Aud Jebsen, who made it possible. THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME

The Governors decided to form a new ARIANNA MALDINI Pastoral and Compliance Committee to THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME regularly monitor and report on these CHARLOTTE TONKINSON important concerns for all schools. The THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN chairman of the committee and I are trained YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME

to Level 3 in Child Protection and MARIA LUISA CASTILLO YOSHIDA Safeguarding and all the Board to Level 2. THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME

We await news of government funding GIACOMO ROVERO THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN via the Music and Dance Scheme to support YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME

Country Life our students. We have coped with six out FRANCISCO SERRANO of seven years of standstill funding. We have THE ROYAL BALLET AUD JEBSEN Photo: cut back our overheads, improved our income YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAMME THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON The artistic direction put together a wonderful and relied on the generosity of our wonderful JOHANNE MONFRET OBE BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET programme which showed the variety and supporters. Of our many friends, all of them (APPRENTICE) reach of the school’s teaching and the beleaguered with requests from countless KIELY GROENEWEGEN astonishing talent and dedication of our charities, I would like to mention Imagination. students. I congratulate all who were involved. They have stepped in on so many occasions STUDIO COMPANY in the last six years and most recently in GABRIELLE BEACH Ten graduating students gained places in creating our ‘refreshed’ brand as part of BOSTON BALLET II the two Royal Ballet companies, for whom their sponsorship of the school. LORENZO SILINGARDI EKATERINBURG STATE ACADEMIC we are the official school. Thrillingly, a total 90 OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE of seven went to The Royal Ballet, one with In June we were honoured to receive a CONNIE VOWLES a full contract and six on the hugely popular visit from His Royal Highness The Prince 90 YEARS SINCE THE SCHOOL Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme. of Wales, our President. He came to White NANA SAKAI WAS FOUNDED Three graduates joined Birmingham Royal Lodge, to see the work of the students HONG KONG BALLET Ballet, two on full contracts and one as an and to meet and congratulate all the staff. LORENZO TROSSELLO apprentice. In this, our 90th anniversary In particular, he recognised them pulling year, our founder Dame Ninette’s vision together while the school coped with the JOSEPH AUMEER is still alive. We work closely with both changes which had to be made in the face PARIS OPERA BALLET companies and are mindful of the mutual of dwindling government support. And all KAHO YANAGISAWA benefits this delivers. this achieved without ever compromising 0 KARL-ERIK WIGLE ANDERSSON 10 GRADUATES JOINED THE our vision of excellence for the school. ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET ROYAL BALLET COMPANIES In April our 1st and 2nd Year Upper School THOMAS BRADSHAW students moved into Aud Jebsen Hall, our It has been another year of hard work and SARASOTA BALLET (APPRENTICE) new student residence in Pimlico. We knew stunning results. The Governors are deeply Previous page: 2016 graduate GRACE PAULLEY it was ambitious to have the start of the grateful to all the staff and are so profoundly SCOTTISH BALLET Charlotte Tonkinson Summer Term as our deadline to complete proud of our magnificent dancers. MAYA NEGISHI Right: 1st Year ladies’ classical class this capital project, so the scramble at the TEATRUL DE BALET SIBIU

end came as only a small surprise. What Schuhlelewis.com RIO SATO was astonishing, however, was the atmosphere TEATRUL DE BALET SIBIU of creative determination that got the project SIMONE ACRI finished. The Operations and Pastoral teams, TULSA BALLET II in particular, gave freely of their time and SCOTT MCKENZIE THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON OBE VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET

effort to make this possible. It was an CHAIRMAN BalletPhoto: © Royal School/

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This has been my second year as Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet School and it has been another 12 fulfilling and successful one. I am very proud of 55 the artistic achievement of our students and the 100% unstinting dedication of The Royal Ballet School 100% OF GRADUATING FIVE EXCEPTIONAL SUMMER 12 EMINENT GUEST STUDENTS GAINED PERFORMANCES SPEAKERS ON OUR CREATIVE teachers and staff. PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTS ARTIST PROGRAMME

students, an excerpt from Swan Lake, Sir . These have been reinterpreted in choreography by Bim informative and inspiring talks which have Malcomson. This was part of The Advance provided our students with an invaluable Project, and an opportunity for our students insight into the lives and experiences of to work with their peers in a local secondary people at the top of their field in a variety school. It provides a valuable forum for of different professions and art forms. creative and social exchange through dance collaboration. I was delighted that we were In 2015, the school welcomed consultants able to present the impressive work, that from world-renowned design agency, resulted from this exciting and meaningful Imagination, to conduct a refresh of the project, to a wider audience. school’s branding. Their time was generously offered as part of their sponsorship of the We are fortunate enough to have strong school. I am pleased to report that the results relationships with other top schools and are now evident throughout the school companies from around the world and, as and in our materials, lending an improved such, our students enjoyed two very important consistency and a fresh, updated feel to the exchanges this year. A teacher exchange with school’s identity. The new brand also aligns the Paris Opera Ballet School in October the school more closely to that of the Royal enabled some of our students to experience Opera House and The Royal Ballet. For this classes in one of the most established styles we owe much gratitude to Imagination. of classical ballet. In May, we hosted a visit from the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Studio Company who worked with our 3rd One of my key aims Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Johan Persson Ballet School/Johan © Royal Photo: Year dancers as part of an ongoing exchange is to continue expanding CHRISTOPHER POWNEY I am delighted to report that our graduating project. Their week in Covent Garden ARTISTIC DIRECTOR students achieved 100% employment for the was a huge success and ended with two our students’ creative 10th year running. performances at Upper School. For the first influences. Right: A performance of Frederick time in the history of the exchange, dancers Ashton’s Les Patineurs Our end-of-year season saw an exceptional from both the school and ABT Studio Company run of performances. Due to the ongoing performed a new collaborative choreography, I continue to focus on the implementation Open Up programme, created by Ethan Stiefel. Our grateful thanks of a new Healthy Dancer programme for the our 2016 ‘Linbury’ performances took place to Ricki Gail Conway, whose generous support school. This was under careful development in the elegant setting of Opera Holland Park makes this annual exchange possible. during the 2015/16 academic year and we followed by our matinée performance at the are looking towards a significant re-shape Royal Opera House. The return to Holland Park One of my key aims is to continue expanding of facilities at both sites to further reinforce was the first in 15 years and, despite some less our students’ creative influences and, in the healthcare and support of our dancers than temperate weather, it was a joy for the autumn 2015, we introduced the Creative while they are at the school. students and audiences to be back in this very Artist programme. Since then, the school special outdoor venue. I was thrilled by what has welcomed a series of illustrious visitors I look forward to moving into this new phase we witnessed on stage, both at Opera Holland at both sites. in 2016/17 and to the various challenges that Park and at the Royal Opera House; the lie ahead, as we continue to strive towards our culmination of a year’s hard work, combined At White Lodge: alumna , the vision of being the best classical ballet school with our students’ remarkable passion for Royal Opera House Wardrobe department, in the world. their art form. cellist Matthew Barley, author Michael

Our performances were the culmination of a year’s hard work, combined with our students’ remarkable passion for their art form.

Morpurgo, dancer Laura Jones (Stopgap CHRISTOPHER POWNEY A very special addition to the Saturday Dance Company) and composer Philip Spratley. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR matinée performance at Opera Holland At Upper School: sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, Park was the presentation of a rewarding actor Sir Derek Jacobi, director Stephen collaboration between our Year 10 and Daldry, theatre designer John Macfarlane,

Dagenham Park Church of School sailor Sir Ben Ainslie and choreographer Persson Ballet School/Johan © Royal Photo:

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Life at The Royal Ballet School is challenging and rewarding in equal measure for our exceptional students. Here are just some of our 2015/16 highlights.

STAGE CALL I’m sort of obsessed with After months of the idea that you can take rehearsals, students ballet into any community, took to the stage CREATIVE ARTIST into any context, and ROYAL PATRONAGE at Opera Holland We launched our people will emotionally and Our President Park and the Royal new Creative Artist CAROLS HRH The Prince imaginatively respond to it. Opera House for programme with The White Lodge OLYMPIC of Wales made five spectacular INSPIRATION a talk for students choir was in full STEPHEN DALDRY THEATRE AND FILM a special visit to Summer Olympic sailor Sir by world-famous voice for the annual DIRECTOR, AT A CREATIVE ARTIST TALK White Lodge to Performances. British sculptor Carol Service at Ben Ainslie was meet students HEALTHY DANCER Sir Antony Gormley PARIS EXCHANGE Christ Church in one of the Creative and thank staff for TEACHER SUCCESS Work completed OBE. We welcomed Sheen. YOUNG CREATIVES Artist speakers. NYC- their commitment. We were proud on renovations to two teachers from Year 7 student We were honoured that all eight our fitness studios Paris Opera Ballet CHARITY GALA AUDITIONS Guillem Cabrera to host American students on the at Upper School School. The teacher Some of our Auditions for CREATING BILLY Espinach won first Ballet Theatre 2014-16 Diploma with a new fully- exchange proved students had the full-time training director prize in the Ninette Studio Company of Dance Teaching equipped pilates to be an enriching privilege of dancing and Mid and Stephen Daldry de Valois Junior at Upper School course successfully studio and gym – experience for for guests at the Senior Associates spoke to students Choreographic for our annual graduated from all part of our new students and Lord Mayor’s started around the for our Creative Award with his exchange their two-year Healthy Dancer teachers alike. Appeal Gala Dinner. country. Artist programme. composition Sunset. programme. qualification. initiative.

SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST

INSIGHT DAY NUTCRACKER ASSOCIATE NEW HOME PATRON’S LUNCH Members of the Around 75 of our EXPERIENCE Students moved The school’s longest public were invited students performed Young people into new state- serving staff to attend a general in The Royal were invited to of-the-art members attended public insight day, Ballet’s Christmas experience what accommodation, HM The Queen’s to learn more about spectacular The it’s like to be a Aud Jebsen Hall, 90th birthday the school and our Nutcracker. Junior Associate in Pimlico. celebrations on the students’ training. with a day of Mall in London at workshops and CHOREOGRAPHY ADVANCE PROJECT GCSEs the Patron’s Lunch. demonstrations Our annual PERFORMANCE Our Year 11s at our Covent Ursula Moreton Young people from took their GSCE Garden studios. Choreographic Dagenham Park examinations – the Award was held, School teamed A* to C pass rate SUMMER SCHOOL showcasing up with White rose from 96% to 314 students from nine 2nd Year Lodge students 98%: the national 61 countries joined students’ original to perform average being us for two weeks WORLD BALLET DAY choreography. an impressive 66.9%. of world class Students were The winner was collaborative ballet training at broadcast to Joshua Junker dance inspired White Lodge and thousands of ballet with Jangala. by Swan Lake. Upper School. fans around the world as part of live CONTRACTS streaming from the For the 10th year Royal Opera House running, 100% of for World Ballet our graduating Day 2015. students secured contracts with ballet companies around the world.

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Our Outreach & Access programme goes from Primary Steps made me feel proud of myself and strength to strength. This year we introduced nearly showed me I can do 2,000 young people to ballet, welcomed ballet whatever I choose, with teachers to our new Inspire seminars across a bit of courage. the UK and saw the first cohort of Diploma of PRIMARY STEPS GRADUATE YEAR 6 Dance Teaching students successfully graduate. Brian Slater Photo: © Royal BalletPhoto: © Royal School/ OUTREACH & ACCESS

Our Outreach & Access work engages, enriches and supports individuals and the wider dance community, and identifies talent internationally. 2,299

2,299 STUDENTS AUDITIONED 83% OF STUDENTS ACCEPTED FOR THE SCHOOL AND INTO WHITE LODGE WERE ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMES ASSOCIATES

The Outreach & Access team aims to broaden Senior Associate classes. In 2015/16 a further Romeo and Juliet, and with Birmingham Royal access to the resources of The Royal Ballet level of training was piloted at the Upper Ballet in The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo School, sharing our specialist knowledge School for students aged 16 to 17. This new and Juliet. They also had a rare chance to and expertise in ballet training. It also provides programme, Advanced Associates, targets perform with the Bolshoi Ballet in Le Corsaire entry points to the school through partnerships, students in their final years of secondary and with the Australian Ballet in Cinderella. national training programmes, auditions and school who are planning to undertake dance events, advocating good practice. training or education at a tertiary level. THE ADVANCE PROJECT The Advance Project provides the opportunity ASSOCIATE PROGRAMME In all, 490 students participated across all for Royal Ballet School students to collaborate Established in 1948, the programme nurtures levels of Associates, all taking part in regular with peers from a local secondary school, thus talented students, aged 8 to 17, who show term time classes at our eight Associate broadening their experience through creative an aptitude and desire to follow a career Centres across the UK. In addition they and cultural exchange. in classical ballet. It aims to complement the attended special one-off workshops at our Associate students’ current dance training Upper School studios, working in various In 2016, due to reduced funding from the by introducing them to the unique System dance styles, including classical ballet, for the school’s of Training of The Royal Ballet School. It is contemporary, street and historical dance. Access programme, Advance was reduced to testament to the quality of the programme one project at White Lodge. Year 10 students, that, in 2015/16, 83% of students accepted One of the great benefits for Associate in collaboration with students from Dagenham into Year 7 at White Lodge were Associates. students is that some will get the chance to Park Church of England School, performed Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Katie Davison Ballet School/Katie © Royal Photo: Previous page: Primary Steps perform with the Royal Ballet companies and a newly created work, To the Point, inspired graduates 2016 For many years, the Associate Programme other major dance companies from around the by the ballet Swan Lake. Taking the ideas of opportunity to find out about our Junior Discover Dance event

The Advance Project performance has provided outstanding training for students world. This year Associate students performed geometry used in classical ballet to create Associate Programme. in 2016 up to the age of 15 through Junior, Mid and with The Royal Ballet in The Winter’s Tale and movement material, the work explored aspects of being a teenager, exemplified The Audition Insight Day held annually by the character of the Prince in Swan Lake. in London demystifies the audition process for young students and their parents and The success of this project resulted in To the reassures them that the school’s auditions Point being performed at the school’s Opera are open, positive and inclusive. It provides Holland Park matinée, the first time that The the message to any young dancer with Advance Project has been included in the talent and aptitude that they can audition school’s Summer Performances. for The Royal Ballet School, regardless of their financial circumstances. AUDITIONS The Royal Ballet School is recognised as one of the world’s top dance institutions, with Any young dancer with many students wishing to train at the school. talent and aptitude can This year 2,299 students auditioned for entry into one of our programmes. There were 911 audition for The Royal candidates who undertook the preliminary Ballet School. auditions for White Lodge and Upper School, as well as the Mid, Senior and Advanced Associate programmes throughout England. Discover Dance was a one-day event held In addition, 1,160 dancers auditioned for in April for 7 to 9-year-olds with little-to-no the Junior Associate programme and 228 dance experience, and teachers interested candidates auditioned for our programmes in creativity in dance teaching. Participants in Livorno Italy, by DVD or private audition. spent a day at The Royal Ballet School to find out more about the art of ballet through OUTREACH & ACCESS EVENTS workshops and a demonstration from students. The Outreach & Access department offers a broad range of events for students, their We also held three Insight Days this year, parents and teachers and the general public offering Primary and Secondary students, as each year. Throughout 2015/16 more than well as the general public, an informative look 300 students attend Junior Associate at life at The Royal Ballet School. Audiences at Experience days in Bath, Birmingham, Dundee, each event were able to see a demonstration Leeds, London and Newport. These events ballet class and ask students questions about

Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Brian Slater © Royal Photo: give students, teachers and parents the their training.

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AUDITION ANALYSIS 2015/16 STUDENT NUMBERS 2015/16

1,716 WHITE LODGE, UPPER SCHOOL & ASSOCIATES FOR ENTRY WHITE LODGE GIRLS BOYS TOTAL IN SEPTEMBER 2016 Year 7 14 13 27 GIRLS BOYS TOTAL Year 8 13 13 26 White Lodge 403 93 496 Year 9 13 13 26 1,820 7-8 YEAR OLDS WERE 1,716 APPLICANTS FOR 314 8 STUDENT TEACHERS Upper School 251 51 302 Year 10 16 10 26 INTRODUCED TO BALLET PLACES AT OUR SUMMER GRADUATED FROM OUR Junior Associates 1,011 149 1,160 Year 11 14 11 25 THROUGH PRIMARY STEPS DIPLOMA OF DANCE TEACHING SCHOOL Mid Associates 358 70 428 Total 70 60 130 Senior Associates 146 12 158 Advanced Associates 39 3 42 UPPER SCHOOL GIRLS BOYS TOTAL SUMMER PROGRAMME Total 2,208 378 2,586 1st Year 14 16 30 The school’s 2016 Summer Programme 2nd Year 14 15 29 proved as popular as ever with 1,716 dancers SUMMER SCHOOL 2016 3rd Year 14 13 27 from 64 countries applying for 314 places WL CG Total Total 42 44 86 on the intensive training programmes British 397 91 488 offered at White Lodge and Covent Garden. EU 468 228 696 NATIONALITIES Students had the privilege to be taught by the Rest of the World 275 257 532 American 9 Irish 1 school’s teachers, including Artistic Director Total 1,140 576 1,716 Australian 5 Italian 9 Belgian 3 Japanese 12 Christopher Powney, as well as guest teachers British 149 Korean 2 Darcey Bussell, , Sarah AUDITION NUMBERS BY VENUE Canadian 1 Norwegian 4 Wildor, Ernst Meisner, Didy Veldman, Glenn WHITE LODGE, UPPER SCHOOL, MID, SENIOR AND Chinese 1 Portuguese 2 Wilkinson, Kerry Fletcher and Mavis Becker. ADVANCED ASSOCIATES Dutch 2 Spanish 5

GIRLS BOYS NO. OF % French 1 Swedish 3 TEACHER TRAINING CANDIDATES German 2 In July 2016, our first cohort of eight London 437 88 525 48 DUAL NATIONALITIES participants graduated from the Diploma of Birmingham 121 20 141 13 Australian/Swiss 1 American/Swiss 1 Dance Teaching. This new two-year course, Bath 84 16 100 9 American/British 2 Italian/Japanese 1 established in 2014 for current and ex- Manchester 130 15 145 13 JUNIOR ASSOCIATES professional dancers and teachers, provides Private 13 2 15 1 Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Brian Slater © Royal Photo: DVD 136 23 159 15 CENTRE SESSIONS GIRLS BOYS TOTAL a foundation in teaching ballet to a broad London 1 32 35 16 51 Seven of our eight Diploma Total 921 164 1,085 100 PRIMARY STEPS range of students. London 2 24 16 17 33 of Dance Teaching graduates Every year Primary Steps provides access OVERSEAS FOR WHITE LODGE & UPPER SCHOOL Birmingham 1 32 23 10 33 to creative ballet education for nearly 2,000 Participants have the opportunity to GIRLS BOYS TOTAL Birmingham 2 24 15 12 27 children, targeting areas of social, economic specialise in teaching in either vocational Livorno 45 9 54 Bath 24 14 18 32 and cultural diversity. It is a national junior or educational settings. Eastleigh 32 19 11 30 school programme which offers creative ballet JUNIOR ASSOCIATE AUDITIONS Leeds 32 25 10 35 workshops to Year 3 children (aged 7 to 8) CENTRE NO. OF GIRLS GIRLS BOYS BOYS Manchester 28 22 11 33 Newcastle 28 8 2 10 and weekly after-school classes up to the age In July 2016, our first CANDIDATES INTAKE INTAKE Totnes 30 18 5 23 of 1 1 for selected children. In 2015/16, 1,820 London 420 355 26 65 15 cohort of eight Total 195 112 307 students participated in the programme. Birmingham 173 146 23 27 9 participants graduated Bath 81 77 14 4 2 Eastleigh 109 97 11 12 7 MID ASSOCIATES Each year a highlight of the programme is from the Diploma of Leeds 166 153 11 13 6 CENTRE SESSIONS GIRLS BOYS TOTAL the graduation ceremony for Year 6 students. Dance Teaching. Manchester 129 116 16 13 3 London 1 32 29 0 29 This takes place in the Linden Studio at Newcastle 35 30 7 5 1 London 2 30 0 17 17 Upper School where the graduates, along Totnes 47 37 9 10 5 Birmingham 28 14 1 15 with Year 5 students, perform dances specially Inspire is a comprehensive series of six Total 1,160 1,011 117 149 48 Bath 24 14 0 14 created for them and receive certificates seminars devised and delivered by The Royal Manchester 28 17 0 17 Newcastle 28 12 1 13 from our Head of Outreach & Access, Mark Ballet School across the UK. It is a teacher SUMMARY Total 86 19 105 Annear. A feature of this event is a series of enhancement programme aimed at all classical Total number of students auditioning 2,299 performances by Primary Steps graduates (White Lodge, Upper School & Associates) ballet teachers but primarily targeting the SENIOR ASSOCIATES who are now doing further dance training. private dance-teaching sector. In its first year, CENTRE SESSIONS GIRLS BOYS TOTAL This year, students with Launch, Trinity Laban 447 dance teachers from the UK participated London 30 33 17 50 Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the in seminars one to four. The final two seminars Birmingham 30 14 0 14 Centre for Advanced Training (CAT), Dance4, will be launched in the 2016/17 academic year. Total 47 17 64 demonstrated the dance pathways available to our Primary Steps graduates. Thanks to everyone involved in the Outreach ADVANCED ASSOCIATES & Access programmes for their outstanding CENTRE SESSIONS GIRLS BOYS TOTAL London 12 14 0 14 At the end of the year, one Primary Steps work and commitment. Most grateful thanks Total 14 0 14 graduate was accepted into the CAT at to the Leverhulme Trust and Clore Duffield DanceEast (Ipswich) and one into the CAT at Foundation for their continued support of PRIMARY STEPS Dance4 (Nottingham). We now have Primary our important work. CENTRE Steps graduates between the ages of 11 and 17 Blackpool 63 placed in CATs at the Lowry, Swindon Dance, Bury St Edmunds 76 DanceEast and Dance4. Seven Primary Steps Dagenham 78 children also participated in our Associate Mansfield 63 Programme. Swindon 56 Total 336

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Students throughout the Our talented dancers are also excelling in the school develop learning classroom - achieving academic results well above skills at an unusually high the national average. level and demonstrate excellent academic subject knowledge.

ISI REPORT 2016

AMBIT ION BalletPhoto: © Royal School/Schuhlelewis.com OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

We give our students the best possible academic education during their training, not only to help them to open up their opportunities beyond ballet, but also to give them tools to develop their careers as thinking, feeling artists. 98% OF GCSE PASSES WERE AT A*-C GRADE 43% OF GCSE PASSES WERE AT A*/A GRADE

This year we recorded another impressive The Autumn Term started off with the arrival Service at Christ Church in Sheen. Meanwhile Later in the Spring Term our White Lodgers set of academic results achieved by our of an energetic new cohort of students at White the Upper School students were busy escaped for their annual visit days to the likes talented students, showing yet again that Lodge and Upper School. As ever, they were collating a playlist for their Christmas Party. of Hampton Court and the Freed factory, while the focus, determination and sheer hard-work soon swept up by the ‘old hands’ who showed final auditions for the following academic year of a dancer yields success in the classroom them the ropes and helped them settle in. took place. as well as in the studio. Congratulations go The focus, determination to the students and to the academic and As the year continued, students took part in and sheer hard-work of The Summer Term started with students and house staff, who make these remarkable the White Lodge annual inter-house swimming staff of all ages getting involved in Easter egg achievements possible. gala and at Upper School, the first BTEC a dancer yields success hunts – some light relief from their hard work assignments were submitted. Assemblies at in the classroom as in the run up to external and internal exams, Subjects studied include Maths, English, both sites marked Remembrance Day. and the Summer Performances. Science, and BTEC Dance to name but a well as the studio. few, all requiring daytime lessons as well as The Nutcracker was in full swing in November In June we welcomed new students and Previous page: A Maths lesson at additional prep every evening. Our students and December, with some students balancing In January the Year 11s went straight into parents for September to White Lodge and White Lodge using an interactive have very full lives both in and out of the rehearsals with their regular ballet training mock GCSEs and Year 9 started to plan ahead Year 7s started to prepare for the big step Smart Board studio – not least baking cakes for the annual and academic classes and the White Lodge for their GCSE courses: the first time they up to being Year 8s. We also celebrated Upper School students Macmillan Cake sale. choir rehearsed for a well-attended Carol get to choose what they study. HM The Queen’s 90th birthday, hosted a visit White Lodge students Schuhlelewis.com Photos: © Royal Ballet School/ © Royal Photos:

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EXAMINATION RESULTS 2016 PASS RATES

BTEC D*D* D*D DD DM MM GCSE 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Diploma Performing Pass Rate % Arts (Dance) 2 2 5 5 3 (A*-C) 98 96 95 90 92 Total 17 % 12 12 29 29 18 BTEC 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Cumulative % 12 24 53 82 100 Pass Rate % The Diploma is equivalent to two A-Levels (D*D*-MM) 100 100 100 100 100

In July academic lessons gave way to EXTENDED EXTENDED Graduation marked the preparations for the Royal Opera House BTEC D*D*D* D*D*D D*DD DDD DDM DMM MMM BTEC 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 end of one era and the matinée and the spectacular Grand Defilé. Extended Diploma Pass Rate % Graduation marked the end of one era and in Performing Arts D*D*D*-MMM 100 100 100 100 100 beginning of an exciting the beginning of an exciting new one for (Dance) 2 2 - 1 1 - 2 our 3rd Year students. Total 8 new one for our 3rd Year % 25 25 0 13 13 0 25 students. Cumulative % 25 50 50 63 75 75 100 The Extended Diploma is equivalent to three A-Levels

from HRH The Prince of Wales, held the ever- A-LEVEL A* A B C D E U Entries Passes Pass popular White Lodge Summer Fair, invited A - E rate% new parents and students to an introductory Art - - - 1 2 1 - 4 0 100 day at Upper School, staged the Year 11 English - - 1 2 - - - 3 33 100 Celebration and four performances at Opera French - - - 1 2 - - 3 0 100 Head of Science Charlotte Green Holland Park – a busy month! Maths - 1 1 1 - - - 3 67 100 Russian - 1 - - - - - 1 100 100

Total 0 2 2 5 4 1 0 14 29 100 100% PASS RATE IN YEAR 9 % 14 14 36 29 7 LAMDA EXAMS, 38% WITH Cumulative % 14 29 64 93 100 DISTINCTION, 50% WITH MERIT

GCSE A* A B C D E F Entries % Pass A */A rate% A *- C Art - 9 2 2 - - - 13 69 100 Dance Studies 2 2 4 1 - - - 9 44 100 English Lang. 1 4 11 7 - - - 23 22 100 English Lit. 4 2 11 6 - - - 23 26 100 6 Exp. Arts 5 11 4 1 - - - 21 76 100 French 4 3 5 1 1 - - 14 50 93 Geography 1 2 5 1 1 - - 10 30 90 SIX WHITE LODGE STUDENTS WON History 3 4 2 2 - - - 11 64 100 PRIZES IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE Maths 3 8 12 1 1 - - 25 44 96 OF ART’S 2016 YOUNG ART Music - 6 4 - - - - 10 60 100 EXHIBITION IN MARCH, SELECTED Science - 6 12 3 1 1 - 23 26 91 FROM 7,500 ENTRIES Add. Science - 5 11 2 - - - 18 28 100 Total 23 62 83 27 4 1 - 200 43 98 % 12 31 42 14 2 1 Cumulative % 12 43 84 98 100 100

EAL Distinction Merit Pass Total Candidates KET 1 1 2 PET 2 3 4 9

FCE 1 2 2 5 CAE 1 2 3 100% PASS RATE IN WHITE LODGE Total 19 ABRSM MUSIC EXAMS, 19% WITH DISTINCTION, 56% WITH MERIT Schuhlelewis.com

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20 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 2121 OUR FINANCES

We work tirelessly to ensure we provide the best In spite of difficult financial possible environment for both work and homelife conditions, a notable success this year was completing for our students to thrive - this in light of continued Aud Jebsen Hall, a new funding restrictions. residence for students in Pimlico.

RESILI ENCE Persson BalletPhoto: © Royal School/Johan BUSINESS REVIEW FOR 2015/16 ACADEMIC YEAR

The financial results for 2015/16 met all targets and expectations, with the school once again achieving its financial objective of income matching expenditure. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the year ended 31 August 2016, including an income and expenditure statement

Unrestricted Funds new facility. The 1st and 2nd Years of the General Designated Restricted Total Total Upper School are now comfortably housed, Funds Funds Funds 2016 2015 fed and watered in fully compliant purpose- £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 designed boarding accommodation which has transformed their lives and given them much better living standards. INCOME FROM: Charitable activities 7,788 - - 7,788 7,453 Another outstanding achievement in the Donations 1,374 - 7,104 8,478 9,395 face of a prolonged period of funding cuts Other income 30 - - 30 53 was being judged exceptional for student outcomes in the ISI inspection conducted TOTAL INCOME 9,192 - 7,104 16,296 16,901 in November 2015. Unfortunately, a couple of technical compliance failures during the EXPENDITURE ON: inspection needed attention, but these were Raising funds quickly addressed and the ISI monitoring Development and fundraising 186 - - 186 163 visit, carried out later in 2016, confirmed the school is fully compliant in its management 186 - - 186 163 and governance. We are unlike most other Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Katie Davison Ballet School/Katie © Royal Photo: boarding schools and the nature of the Charitable activities Previous page: 3rd Year students For the first time in five years, the school’s set up, particularly with our Teaching 2,531 - 97 2,628 2,512 perform Stijn Celis’ Vertigo Maze Department for Education (DfE) agreed to extensive national Associate and community Pastoral and welfare 1,394 - 54 1,448 1,310 The Healthcare Suite at Upper School a small fee increase (2%) in 2015/16 which, outreach programmes, makes meeting the when combined with other operational ever more exacting compliance regulations Outreach and partnership 774 - 411 1,185 1,142 savings, enabled us to redirect resources difficult to administer. Premises 2,707 - 20 2,727 2,540 and plan for some modest growth in student Support and governance 1,772 - 24 1,796 1,717 services, especially in health and wellbeing After four years of government cuts, we Grants and prizes - - 588 588 665 support. The DfE’s position on fees proved operate on a very lean administrative staff 9 ,178 - 1,194 10,372 9,886 to be a temporary respite, as they have been structure and yet boarding, safeguarding frozen again for the 2016/17 academic year. and health and safety compliance procedures TOTAL EXPENDITURE 9,364 - 1,194 10,558 10,049 At the time of writing this report, news has become more and more onerous with each been received that the DfE’s Music and Dance government review. Parents and supporters NET INCOME / (EXPENDITURE) (172) - 5,910 5,738 6,852 Schools (MDS) budget for 2017/18 will be can be reassured that we continually monitor unchanged, but no decisions have been made the position and make no compromises on 1ST AND 2ND YEAR STUDENTS Transfers between funds 869 4,709 (5,578) - - MOVED INTO NEW, STATE-OF-THE- on how it will be allocated to the schools issues affecting the health and well-being ART ACCOMMODATION and projects it supports. of our students. Other recognised losses Another year of standstill fees for 2017/18 Space for expansion at Floral Street remains Actuarial losses on defined benefit will be extremely challenging if the school at a premium but more work was done pension scheme (655) - - (655) (260) is to maintain excellence in its teaching during the summer break of 2016 to create standards. That would mean fees have been an additional classroom to support delivery frozen for six out of seven years which equates of the new blocked timetable. Work was also to a 12% cut in the grant since 2010 because completed at White Lodge to provide new NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 42 4,709 332 5,083 6,592 of the effects of inflation. public toilet facilities and meeting rooms off TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD 2,378 35,591 2,979 40,948 34,356 the main reception area, vastly improving the TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 2,420 40,300 3,311 46,031 40,948 SCHOOL RATED EXCEPTIONAL In spite of prevailing difficult financial school’s pragmatic management of controlling FOR STUDENT OUTCOMES conditions, a notable success was completing access and separating our visitors and the (ISI 2016) Aud Jebsen Hall, our new residence for public from the main school areas. An overhaul All transactions are derived from the charity’s continuing operations. students in Pimlico, which was opened for the of shower and toilet facilities also took place All recognised gains and losses are included in the statement of financial activities. Summer Term of 2016. The project turned out in the Year 9, 10 and 11 boarding block. The to be testing in many ways, particularly as our programme of LED lighting conversion also main building contractor went into liquidation continued, resulting in significant savings in a third of the way through the contract. energy consumption and costs. The 3rd Year However, under the calm leadership of Alan accommodation at Jebsen House in Covent Winter, Chief Operating Officer, it galvanised Garden also received a much welcome make- governors, staff, students, parents and donors over and refurbishment. to work together and deliver a much-needed

24 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 2525 BALANCE SHEET 27% For the year ended 31 August 2016 PARENT CONTRIBUTION 2016 2015 TO FEES £000 £000 FIXED ASSETS Tangible assets 42,627 39,378 23% CURRENT ASSETS 49% DONATIONS Debtors 1,331 1,160 EXCLUDING MAJOR Cash at bank and in hand 7,489 5,768 DEPARTMENT FOR HOWHOW CAPITAL APPEAL* EDUCATION TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 8,820 6,928 WEWE ARE FUNDEDFUNDED Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Trade and other creditors (1,174) (1,569) Deferred income (2,386) (2,300) 1% NET CURRENT ASSETS 5,260 3,059 OTHER TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 47,887 42,437

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (401) (682)

Defined benefit pension scheme liability (1,455) (807) 6% TOTAL NET ASSETS 46,031 40,948 STUDENT BURSARIES THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY: 2% 11% DEVELOPMENT Unrestricted funds AND OUTREACH AND General fund 2,420 2,378 FUNDRAISING PARTNERSHIP Designated funds 40,300 35,591 WHERE TOTAL UNRESTRICTED FUNDS 42,720 37,969 WHERE OUR MONEY RESTRICTED FUNDS 3,311 2,979 OUR MONEY TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS 46,031 40,948 GOES

Report by the trustees on the Summarised Financial Statements The above summarised financial statements are extracted from the full statutory Governors’ annual report and financial 18% 38% statements which were approved by the Governors and signed on their behalf on 6 February 2017. The full financial statements, on which the auditors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP gave an unqualified audit report, will be submitted to the SUPPORT AND Charity Commission and the Registrar of Companies. STUDENT TEACHING GOVERNANCE AND WELFARE The auditors have confirmed to the Governors that, in their opinion, the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2016.

These summarised financial statements may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding of the financial affairs of the charity. The full statutory Governors’ report, financial statements and auditors’ report may be obtained from [email protected].

Signed on behalf of 25% PREMISES AND STUDENT ACCOMODATION

* Donations of £5.6 million received in the year THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON OBE for the capital appeal for the new Upper School CHAIRMAN boarding house Aud Jebsen Hall

26 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 27 OUR SPONSORS

We extend profound gratitude to our generous We continue to strive supporters, who help to ensure our students are towards our vision of being given every opportunity to be the best they can be. the best classical ballet school in the world.

CHRISTOPHER POWNEY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Photo: © Royal Ballet School/Johan Persson BalletPhoto: © Royal School/Johan OUR SPONSORS

Previous page: 3rd Year men Our supporters are a community of generous perform Concerto Grosso by individuals, companies and grant-giving trusts, Helgi Tómasson all committed to developing the next generation White Lodge students wait in the wings at Opera Holland Park of classical ballet dancers.

STUDENT SPONSORS The Estate of Joan Kay ESPRIT DE CORPS Alexandra Williams Allianz Plc The Morris Kemp Fund Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle Simon Wright Spindrift al Swaidi Doug and Ceri King Keith and Meri Benham The Amar-Franses & Foster- Naoya Kinoshita (Kinoshita Julian and Nicola Blake CAPITAL APPEAL Jenkins Trust Holdings Co Ltd) Edward and Victoria Bonham The Calleva Foundation Carter Artemis Investment Sarah Lewis The Clore Duffield Foundation Management LLP Jenny Borgerhoff Mulder Sir Joseph Lockwood Ricki Gail and Robert Conway Ian Askew Charitable Trust Scholarship Zia Boycott Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman Edward and Celia Atkin The Philip Loubser Foundation Roger and Suzy Brookhouse Kenneth and Susan Green Suneel and Kamal Bakhshi (Nadia Nerina Scholarship) David and Patricia Chapman Foundation The Banham Foundation John Lyon’s Charity Sir Trevor and Lady Chinn Rick and Janeen Sir Kenneth MacMillan Fund for Lynda Beresford Jones Sophie Colthurst Haythornthwaite Young Dancers Anna Birkett Karen Crisford Sir Michael and Lady Heller Keith and Isabelle McDermott The Bowles Family Nicola Denoon-Duncan The Hobson Charity Anna Melluish Rosalind Brener Trust Claire Fisher Mrs Patrick Hungerford Elizabeth May Florence Mills The Deborah Loeb Brice Bursary Fiona Ferguson Aud Jebsen Foundation The Estate of Noreen Pamela Michael Foreman John and Anya Sainsbury John and Susan Burns through The Linbury Trust Joy Mummery (Sopwith Stuart Gordon and Wayne The Calleva Foundation Bursary) Daniel Nancy and Howard Marks Cecchetti Ballet Australia Denis O’Brien Jammy Hoare The Mercers’ Company Bong Youn Cho Kevin O’Hare Scholarship Jonathan Ivinson The Monument Trust Stephen and Ursula Codrington Ofer Family Foundation Susie Keown The Moss Family Charitable Andrea Collins The Orpheus Trust Anna Kim Trust Ricki Gail and Robert Conway Stefano Papi (The Alexandra Janet Lambert PF Charitable Trust Richard and Jennie Cunis Rhodes Bursary) Cosima Magill Timothy and Madeleine Plaut Sir Evelyn de Rothschild The Gwynne Parry Memorial Tim and Diny Maxwell The Gerald Ronson Foundation Fund (Eranda Foundation) Andrew Morison The Rothschild Foundation Stanley Picker Charitable Trust The Department for Education Pel Mountain The Sackler Trust Francesca Pratt The Derrill Allatt Foundation Catherine Nix Stanley J Seeger and Christopher R Cone Judith Dickison Memorial Fund Philip Noel Russell Race Angela and Harvey Soning The Estate of John Dorick Brooks Anne Peach Andre Rzym The Sutton Place Foundation Dame Charlotte Philipps Scholarship Brian Shaw Memorial Robert and Kathleen Wallace Fiona Philipps Scholarship Michael and Linda Gainsbury The Duchess of Wellington David and Diana Pilling Graeme and Sue Sloan Aileen Getty Matthew and Sian Westerman Christina Pitman Lady Henrietta St George Mark and Wanda Goodey Garfield Weston Foundation Countess of Portsmouth The Sutton Scholarship Fund Christopher Gorman-Evans Laura and Stephen Zimmerman Rupert and Serena Prest Analida Graham The Tait Memorial Trust Catherine Rees Carolyn Usherwood Bequest Marguerite Griffith-Jones Our grateful thanks to those Kerry and Dimity Rubie Angela Hamilton Robert Wallace Scholarship donors who have asked to Patsy Seddon remain anonymous. Ethel Rose Hart Will Trust Bonnie Ward Sarah Sladen The Estate of Ronald Hawkridge Nellie Florence Watson Estate Miki Steele Charlotte Heber-Percy Helen Webb Tara Stotesbury Hines Fund Olive Margaret Worth Fund Alison Titchmarsh Elizabeth and Roderick Jack Royalties from Anna Pavlova, Sophie Warburton and Aud Jebsen 20th Century Ballerina Tom O’Day

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PERFORMANCE Jane Carnegie-Brown The Royal Opera House DEVELOPMENT Benevolent Fund SPONSORS 2016 CHK Charities Limited COMMITTEE The Royal Opera House Covent Anna Birkett Covent Garden Academy of Madeleine Plaut (Chairman) Garden Foundation Sarah Bunting Flowers Anna Birkett David Rymer Christopher Gorman-Evans Patrick Dalby Felicity Clark Stefan Sanne Nigel and Candida Hurst-Brown The Dalby Charitable Trust Sarah Dorfman Zita Saurel Imagination Peter and Genevieve Davies Candida Hurst-Brown Pamela Self Elizabeth and Roderick Jack Patrick and Lavinia de Pelet Elizabeth Jack Kevin and Olga Senior Vacheron Constantin C H Dixon Charitable Trust The Duchess of Wellington Gail Sinclair D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Geoffrey Spackman ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL Sarah Dorfman THE YOUNG COMMITTEE TOUR SPONSORS 2016 Lucinda Stafford-Deitsch June Drew Julian Blake (Chairman) Ricki Gail Conway The Steel Charitable Trust The Clore Duffield Foundation Sasha Bonsor The Eloise Susanna Gale The Swire Charitable Trust Rosalind Dwerryhouse Tom Clementi Foundation The Taylor Family Foundation The Eranda Foundation Issy Corbett Stuart Gordon and Wayne Daniel Teale Charitable Trust Mark and Sarah Evans Sophie Lauffer The Thompson Family David and Jane Fletcher Victoria Pattinson AWARD SPONSORS Charitable Trust Freed of London Limited Emilie Salama-Caro Valerie Adams Dulcie Pamela Tilley Trust Friends of The Royal Ballet School Annabella Ward The Ballet Association Robin and Frances Tomkins Mark and Wanda Goodey Billy White Michael Broderick Vacheron Constantin Christopher Gorman-Evans Estate of Nina Finburgh Harold and Olga Wienand Kenneth and Susan Green Robert Kimber Ben and Christine Wrey Foundation Our most grateful thanks to The London Ballet Circle those who have been kind The Headley Trust enough to leave gifts to The Lady MacMillan Charles and Joey Hue Williams ‘CORPS’ DONORS Royal Ballet School in their will. John Mitchell Paul Butler Nigel and Candida Hurst-Brown Gail Monahan Kate Bolsover Imagination David Norman William and Jane Carr Isabella Flowers April Olrich Award Frances Christie Joanna Kaye Malcolm A Stewart Francis and Lynn Howard The Sir James Knott Trust VisasForDancers PLLC Audrey Lyons Leathersellers’ Company Peter Wilson Charitable Fund Lady Felicity Marsh The Worshipful Company of Jonathan and Jacqui Lavy James and Monica Miller Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers Mimi Legat and Dan Freeman Andrew Morison The Leverhulme Trust Charles and Victoria Parker ESSENTIAL SUPPORT The Lord Mayor’s Appeal Rory Penn ALSO PROVIDED BY Keith and Isabelle McDermott Guy and Nathalie Perricone Arts and Sports Trust Oliver Messel Audition Fund Lady Rankin The Band Trust NJL Foundation Roman Ryczkowycz Ian and Phyllida Barby Karen Nissen Christopher Stockwell Bloomsbury Flowers Richard O’Connell Anthony Vernon and Edward The Borrows Charitable Trust Heyward The school abides by the appropriate The Estate of Jill Marion Pelosi The Boscawen Bequest code of conduct for all its fundraising, Robin Pike including consideration of the issues Rosemary Burr and Vernon raised in the Etherington Review into Kemp Quercus Trust Charity Fundraising Practice issued in September 2015, which put an emphasis Peter and Sally Cadbury The Royal Ballet School PTA on donor experience.

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