ScotCo gives £100,000 to LVS

Scottish Courage has donated £100,000 towards a £3m appeal to build a new sixth form and learning centre at the Licensed Victuallers School in Ascot. Scottish Courage, the school's current presidential company, unveiled the donation last Friday, known at the LVS as President's Day. The day marked the school's 200th birthday. The school, still owned by the drinks trade charity the Society of Licensed Victuallers (SLV), has grown considerably since its original foundation on 7 February 1803, in Kennington Lane, Lambeth, when the school had 20 pupils, all from the licensed trade. This academic year, the LVS accepted over 820 pupils between the ages of five and eighteen. Now, as a co-educational independent day and boarding school, it is open to children from all walks of life, although children still attend whose parents are in the licensed trade. The new building for the Ascot site, which is the subject of the Bicentenary Appeal, will house the very best of technological equipment, providing study and tutorial facilities for sixth formers and a learning centre for the whole school. Charles Williamson, managing director of Courage Limited, said: "This is a very special landmark in the Society and school's history. Scottish Courage has been associated through our original businesses, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries and Courage, since the 1820s.