“I got a fantastic academic education. BGS set me free. It’s all about choices and opportunities which you can either take or not take”.

I also got a really good sense of how to organise myself. BGS set me in good stead for the rest of my working life – you know, compartmentalising some serious work interspersed with bouts of quite intense exercise – that was BGS.

I don’t think I’d have got that somewhere else. Philanthropy can make a big difference at BGS given where it is. I could look to support projects somewhere leafier. But money will make a bigger difference in a place like Bradford.”