Flagship appeal · Improvement Committee
The Union’s largest project in a generation. With your help, every boy at the Sierra Leone Grammar School will learn science the way it should be learned — hands on, safely, with the right equipment.
Le 612,000 raised
Goal Le 3,500,000
17% funded · includes online gifts as they arrive
Why it matters
For generations the Grammar School has sent its sons into medicine, engineering, the sciences and public life. Many of them remember the moment science came alive — the first titration that turned the right colour, the circuit that finally lit the bulb, the cell seen for the first time under a microscope.
Today’s boys deserve the same. But years of heavy use have left the school’s laboratories in urgent need of renewal: wiring that is no longer safe, gas and water lines that no longer reach the benches, worn furniture and too little working apparatus for full classes. Teachers do their best, yet too many practicals end up as demonstrations instead of experiments.
The Improvement Committee of the Old Boys Union has made the complete renovation of all three laboratories its first priority. It is a large undertaking, and it will only succeed if every Regentonian plays a part.
Old wiring, missing gas fittings and poor ventilation make full practical classes unsafe. Renovation removes those risks for pupils and teachers.
WASSCE science papers test practical skills. Boys who handle real apparatus understand more, and do better in their examinations.
Medicine, engineering, agriculture and technology all start at a lab bench. Sierra Leone needs these scientists — many will be Regentonians.
The planned design
The architect’s 3D walkthrough shows the planned Junior and Senior laboratories, the technician’s office and the storage room.
Junior Lab
Island benches with built-in sinks, a whiteboard wall and science displays.
Senior Lab
Long perimeter and centre benches with storage beneath and bright, even light.
Junior Lab
Practical work at every bench: glassware, stands and burners within reach.
Senior Lab
Room for full classes, with clear sightlines to the teacher’s demonstration bench.
Lab Technician Office
A dedicated office and preparation space for the laboratory technician.
Storage Room
Secure, glass-fronted cabinets for apparatus and chemicals.
The plan
Each laboratory has been assessed with the school’s science teachers. These are the works and equipment each one needs.
Safe power, sturdy benches and working apparatus so every boy can measure, test and prove — not just copy from the board.
Estimated cost
Le 1,050,000
Gas, water and ventilation done properly, so practical chemistry can be taught safely to full classes.
Estimated cost
Le 1,400,000
Microscopes, specimens and good light, so the living world can be studied up close.
Estimated cost
Le 1,050,000
Progress
Engineers and science teachers survey all three laboratories and agree a costed plan with the school.
Old Boys, sets, chapters and friends of the school give — including through the Annual Dinner & Dance.
Structural, electrical, plumbing and ventilation works, scheduled around the school calendar.
Apparatus installed, teachers trained, and the laboratories formally handed over to the school.
Give in Leones
Give any amount by mobile money through Monime, or by Visa card through Vult. All gifts are recorded and reported by the Improvement Committee.
Orange Money, Afrimoney and other wallets through Monime. Enter any amount in Leones.
Scan the code with your phone, or tap the button, to pay securely with Vult.
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Sets, houses, chapters and families can adopt a specific item and see it installed with their name on a plaque.
Fundraising event
All proceeds from the Annual Dinner & Dance at Freetown Golf Club go to this appeal. Book a table for your set or house — from Le 2,000 a seat to Le 25,000 for a table of eight.
Get dinner ticketsFunds for the appeal are held separately and spent only on the laboratories. The Improvement Committee publishes progress on this page and presents full accounts at the Annual General Meeting. Alumni associations abroad, including our North American and UK brothers, are also raising funds for science at the school — together we can finish the job.
