Lucy Ward quotes the Sutton Trust in her Guardian Online feature on the growth of state school alumni networks.
State schools are missing a fundraising opportunity potentially worth tens of millions of pounds a year by failing to ask their former pupils for money, according to a charity campaigning for better alumni links in the state sector.
A survey commissioned for the organisation Future First found 30% of state school alumni questioned would be willing to make a donation to their former schools if asked, yet only 1% had done so. State schools should learn from the fundraising example of private schools, which educate only 7% of pupils yet raise £130m annually in private donations, says the charity.
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