Planning Application Granted For Seedlings Building

April 18 2024

Edinburgh City Council has granted Edinburgh Steiner School permission to add to its campus a purpose-built Seedlings building for our youngest pupils, situated beside a C-listed villa in a protected conservation area of Merchiston.

The School continues in its fundraising efforts to raise £0.5 million. This ambitious goal is being generously supported by our School community in several ways:

• Gifts & grants, including the below.
• Potential Euro 100,000 grant from Software Stiftung, so far match-funding over half (£61,080) by the below initiatives.
• Spring Fair Entrance Tickets – all proceeds to GSP
• Monthly / One-Off Donations (acknowledged on our virtual Donor Tree)
• Alumni Lunch – a third of proceeds to GSP
• Christmas Markets (2022 – 2024) – 66% of this year’s proceeds to GSP
• Literary Royalties from former Teacher Charles Kovacs
• Adverts in School’s weekly ezine to over 1k subscribers (£1k+ so far) – subscribe
• Reducing the construction cost through community self-build elements (volunteer)

The remainder is intended to be met by a loan and further grant applications.

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In the news:

Edinburgh Steiner School granted permission for new building as part of early years expansion project (Evening News, 26th April)

Edinburgh Private School sets out expansion plans amid soaring pupil demand (Evening News, 5th March)