Donations are vital for shaping our future

To celebrate our 40th anniversary of the Rowing Program at Lowther Hall, we launched a $10,000 fundraising campaign to invest in the upgrade of essential equipment to enhance training, improve performance, and ensure every rower has access to the best resources to reach their full potential:

• Electronic speed coaches (these are currently borrowed from staff).
• 3 sets of oars (these are current borrowed from Footscray City Rowing Club).
• New rowing uniforms (particularly water resistant items to protect our coxes).

Our community support for the campaign was fantastic, and we exceeded our target with $12,350 raised!

The First Nations and Refugee (Centenary) Scholarships were established in 2020 to celebrate the School’s 100^th anniversary. To fund these a special Giving Day Appeal was held in 2022 with a tremendous $400,000 raised by our community. Subsequently two scholarship recipients eagerly began their journey at Lowther Hall. Now, as they enter into their final years of schooling, it is time to plan the fundraising journey for the next two students to be supported by the First Nations and Refugee (Centenary) Scholarships. Our first step in 2024 was to raise $60,000 in June, this target was achieved!

We wish to thank the members of our community who donated towards the installation of our Raymond House Playground. Capital works projects at the School are funded via donations to the Building Trust, for which are made by current families through their voluntary contribution of $700 annually via tuition fees payments. 

In 2023 our community generously donated $80,000 towards the installation of new solar panels at Lowther Hall, to support our ongoing mission of the reduction of our operational carbon footprint. 170 430W panels have now been installed on the Joan M Garde Cultural Centre with 2 Sungrow inverters and 12kwh lithium ion battery. They look to save up to 410kws of energy per day during the summer period!