Centenary Legacy Campaign

Dear St David’s Community

ST DAVID’S CENTENARY LEGACY CAMPAIGN

Marist education places Heart at its centre — a deep love and care for our boys at St David’s Marist Inanda that has been lived out over the past 84 years, and a commitment to building a better South Africa for all who call it home. It is this love that inspires us to write to you today as we launch our Centenary Legacy Campaign — an invitation to each of us to express our commitment to the School in the years leading up to our Centenary celebrations in 2041.

This is our opportunity to leave a lasting legacy — for our sons, our grandsons, and for the generations of boys who will one day walk these beloved campuses. Boys who will go on to serve and lead our country, grounded in their Marist values and education.

In this Jubilee Year of Hope, we are proud to launch a campaign that will unfold over the next sixteen years — a bold initiative to raise the funds needed to bring our ambitious and inspiring campus development plan to life. With this plan, we reaffirm our commitment to educational excellence by continuing to grow and enhance the facilities available to our boys.

We hope that every member of our community will support this campaign in whatever way they can — and in doing so, help shape a legacy that will bless not only our current boys but generations to come.

Attached to this letter are the two CENTENARY LEGACY CAMPAIGN (CLC) documents:

• The Call to Action, in which we share the reasons for us all to get involved and our initial target of raising R300 Million - R100 Million in gratitude for our first 100 years, and R200 Million (and beyond) to create the legacy for ongoing relevance and long-term sustainability for our second 100 years.
• The CLC Project Listing, in which we share the building development  planning across all school areas – Religious, Academic, Sporting, Cultural, Boarding, Admin/Service Units – and the ongoing drive to build Endowment and Bursary support as part of our legacy to our school. This document will be a dynamic one, showing existing facilities we enjoy from donations in past years, the current projects we are working on and possible future projects. It explains how individuals, families, external trusts and corporates can get involved and how donations woprk, including naming rights, bequests etc. The document lists estimate costs for each project, and will keep a running total on donations and completed projects as part of this ongoing campaign.

Our goal is to ignite a lasting commitment to growth and excellence — a legacy not only for St David’s Marist Inanda, but for our country and its future generations. We invite each of you to partner with us in this journey and to leave your own legacy for your sons, your grandsons, and the boys who will follow in their footsteps.

If you would like to learn more or begin a conversation, please feel free to reach out to any member of the School Executive. Every great initiative begins with a single step — as we saw with the creation of the Alex Campus and the launch of Boarding, vision becomes reality through shared belief and action.

Our goals for this campaign are no less ambitious — and with your support, just as achievable.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Yours in Marist education,