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Support us


Our alumni and parents can play a vital part in supporting the school by sharing your inspiring stories, providing careers mentoring, helping us with your professional advice and services.
You can also make a financial gift. Our state-funded status means that we rely on the generosity of our community to provide outstanding opportunities and facilities.
Please read more below and contact the Development and Alumni team if you have any questions - we always love to hear from you!

Ways to donate

Our Pavilion Campaign

Our sports pavilion at Longford was originally built in the early 70s but had started to look very sorry for itself. The campaign to raise money to replace it was launched towards the end of 2019 and we were awarded a grant for a large portion of it by the Department for Education. We were also very lucky to have very generous donations from our ONs, parents and other members of the school community.

The new sports pavilion was completed in April 2020 but was officially opened at the end of 2021. Now, it is a facility to be proud of - our teams have somewhere warm and comfortable where they can shower, change and gather, and they no longer have to feel embarrassed when hosting teams from other schools. One of our Old Novaportans very kindly donated £100k to name the new pavilion in memory of his old games teacher, Lynn James, who was in charge of physical education and games at Adams’ from 1963 until 1986. Sadly he died at the young age of fifty-two while refereeing a First XV match at Longford.

However, we still have a shortfall of almost £250k and continue to fundraise to cover this. There are still opportunities available to name a changing room and the main hospitality area.

We also launched a "Buy a Plaque" campaign in 2021 - offering Adams' community members the chance to purchase a personalised plaque to be displayed on the main wall of the hospitality area. This is a perfect memento for a former pupil who has enjoyed being part of the sporting heritage at Adams.

You can view our brochure below . You can purchase your plaque by selecting "Buy a Plaque" in the "Ways to Donate" bar above.

Pavilion Appeal Video

This video demonstrates perfectly why we needed a new Pavilion!

The completed Lynn James Pavilion

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Play the School Lottery!

The 100 club has unfortunately had to close because of circumstances beyond our control. We still wanted to have a way that we can raise funds for the school in a sustainable and affordable way, so we set up a weekly lottery with an organisation called "My School Lottery". You can buy as many tickets as you like, and your numbers are put into a draw from the within the school's participants, which is 30% of whatever is raised. There is also a chance of winning a nationwide draw prize of £25,000.

General School Donation

If you would like to donate to any other cause in the school, you can use the General School Donation fund.

Perhaps you would like to provide additional support for Pupil Premium children?

Maybe you want to help the school to become more environmentally sustainable?

Or did you want to help us preserve our heritage and listed buildings?

Just be sure to get in touch with our Alumni and Development Manager to let us know what you would like your donation to be used for.

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