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The focus of our fundraising effort in 2008 will be the New Sixth Form House. This is our most ambitious and exciting project since the move to Colinton in 1930 and will be a vital facility for the School. Planning permission has been granted for a new House behind Rogerson with 126 en-suite bedrooms for Sixth Form boarders and full communal facilities for the Sixth Form. Opening is projected for 2008.
Update: View the building work on our live webcam - click here!
Sandy Corstorphine Chairman Sixth Form House Appeal Committee
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I introduced the new Sixth Form House to Merchistonians in the last Newsletter and attached is a final artist's impression of the 120-bedroom building behind Rogerson for which we received final planning permission just before Christmas. A contractor has now been engaged and we expect to break ground for the new building very shortly. In the meantime the huge effort to seek financial support for this substantial and vital project continues. When I last wrote to you I mentioned our telephone campaign which was proposed for the summer when young Merchistonians would ring Club Members to tell them about the School, and this project in particular, and hopefully seek your help. Attached is a picture of the cheerful gang of callers who spoke to so many of you: I must say a most sincere thank-you on behalf of the School and Governors to all those of you who kindly took the call, often on hot afternoons or warm evenings when I am sure you had many competing distractions, and who so generously offered financial support. We are still following up on some of these most kind offers, but the total raised or pledged by the telephone campaign has already reached in excess of £130,000, which is fantastic. Also, last term Roger Baird deployed his inexhaustible enthusiasm to party on the Appeal's behalf, and at a marvellous evening (also illustrated here!) in November in Edinburgh , over £50,000 was raised, which is again a terrific response. I would like to be able to report that we are almost there on the Appeal but, as you will imagine, with a project of long gestation, costs can be a moving target and indeed they are only now being finally settled in the light of planning: suffice to say they are substantial and we will need to seek a final huge effort from all close friends and supporters to achieve our goal. Thank you anyway so much to those who have already helped us so far along the way.
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