Bursary provision remains a priority for The King's School despite the Upper Tribunal ruling.

On Friday the Upper Tribunal ruled that some areas of the Charity Commission Guidelines to fee paying schools were wrong. In particular the Charity Commission had been too proscriptive about the ways in which fee-charging schools should demonstrate that they offered benefits to those who could not afford the fees by providing means tested bursaries.

Commenting on the ruling, the Headmaster, Tim Keyes said:

'Our bursary programme has never been as a response to the Charities Commission guidelines. King's has a long history of providing support to pupils who would not otherwise be able to afford to come to the school. Indeed it is one of our founding principles. Since the end of the Direct Grant and Assisted Places schemes the Governors have endeavored to secure bursary funding from other sources including charitable donations and in the past ten years we have been able to increase the funds available by more than 100%. Social mobility through the provision of means tested bursaries will remain a key strategic aim for the School regardless of whether the tribunal ruling is upheld. Indeed, it is critical to the character and ethos that is The King's School Worcester'