Dear parents and prospective families,
We plan to keep our fees down by preserving our newly reduced fee for spring and summer 2025 into the following academic year, 2025/26, other than any necessary inflationary amendment that may be required.
We are very aware of the additional costs to parents caused by VAT on fees being added from January 2025 – and we want to help.
What is happening to your fee at Whitgift to help parents cope with the 20% VAT imposed by the government?
We are reducing our current fee back to our 2023 fee level. This means that when we add VAT in January 2025, the new addition will equate to a 12.7% increase on the current fee, rather than the 20% it would have been had we not made this reduction.
What will happen to the Whitgift fees for the academic year 2025/26?
This new, reduced level fee will become the basis for any fee changes from the following academic year, 2025/26, too. It is likely we will need to make an inflation-related increase for the 25/26 year, as we think almost all schools will do. We hope parents will take comfort from the fact we do not plan to increase the level of our base fee before inflation, and this should mean families will be able to rely on the Whitgift fee being held in as tightly as we can manage in these difficult times.
Is this also true for your boarding fees?
Yes.
Can I read the letter you sent to current parents about this?
There is a link to the Chairman of Governors' letter to parents, setting out in full the new Whitgift fees for day and boarding pupils here.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Halls
Headmaster
