You can make a donation to the Leighton Park Bursary Fund online with a debit or credit card here .

If you are a UK tax payer and would like to boost your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate, please email alumni@leightonpark.com stating your name, address and wish for us to claim gift aid on your donation.

If you would prefer not to make a payment online, you can make a payment by cheque or set up a direct debit by printing and completing our donation form and returning to The Alumni Office, Leighton Park School, Shinfield Road, Reading, RG2 7ED.

Download a Donation Form

You can make a direct bank transfer from a UK or overseas bank account using our bank details below. So that we can identify your donation, please give your transfer a reference beginning with OL, and include your initial and surname, and also email us to let us know you have made a transfer.

Bank Name: Lloyds Bank
Account Name: Leighton Park Trust
Sort Code: 30-67-99
Account Number: 84589868
SWIFT: LOYDGB21716
IBAN: GB55 LOYD 3067 9984 5898 68

Under the Payroll Giving Scheme, employees can authorise their employer to deduct charitable donations from their pay before calculating Pay As You Earn tax. This means that the employee automatically gets tax relief on donations at their top rate of tax. There is no limit on the amount that can be given under the scheme. To find out more about Payroll Giving and if your company operates the scheme, please contact your Human Resources or Personnel department.

Leaving a gift in your Will to Leighton Park Trust is possibly the greatest gift you can make during your lifetime and offers you the opportunity to invest in the future of the School for years to come. Find out more about how to leave a gift in your Will here, or contact the Bursar on 0118 987 9607.

Transnational Giving Europe is a philanthropic scheme that allows donors in participating European countries to give to charities in the UK, including Leighton Park Trust, and receive any tax advantages available in their country of residence.

In order to make a tax-efficient gift, donors should contact the partnership organisation of their country of residence and express a wish to make their donation to the Leighton Park Trust. The partnership organisation will contact CAF (the partnership organisation in the UK), who will then contact Leighton Park. The donor makes the gift to his or her home-country partnership organisation which then provides the donor with a tax receipt and transfers the gift to the beneficiary organisation.

For a list of participating countries please go to the Transnational Giving Europe website and click on your country of residence.

If you would like help with this process, please contact our Finance Manager.

The Leighton Park Trust is an approved institution with the British Schools & Universities Foundation (BSUF). BSUF was set up over 40 years ago to support British schools and universities in a tax efficient way.

To make a gift and take a U.S. income tax deduction, you may make a donation to the British Schools & Universities Foundation (Federal I.D. Number 13-616-1189), a charitable organisation approved by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3) of their Code.

If you are a Canadian resident with US income you can also make a donation to BSUF and claim a deduction from the US IRS against your US income.

The Leighton Park Trust has a temporary US representative for BSUF, Mr John Stiller. If you would like to make contact with John, please email alumni@leightonpark.com.

Giving by Check
If you would like to make a donation by check, download a Donor Transmittal Form and send it to:

British Schools and Universities Foundation
641 Lexington Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY,
10022-4503

A preference for Leighton Park Trust should be expressed on the transmittal form not on your check which is to be drawn to the order of the British Schools & Universities Foundation. Such preferences are respected by the Foundation but all grants are made at its sole discretion, as required by the I.R.S. BSUF will send you a receipt. If you wish the tax deduction in the current year, you should send your gift no later than four weeks before December 31st.

Giving by Credit Card
You can make one-time or regular donations by credit card using the Network for Good. Just follow the instructions on the BSUF website.

Making a Bequest
A provision may be made in your Will or Trust bequeathing money to the BSUF. To contact BSUF regarding a bequest please send an e-mail to treasurer@bsuf.org.

Other Ways to Give
Why not consider setting up a Charitable Remainder Unitrust or an Individual Retirement Account or giving securities. You can find more information on the BSUF website.