26-739: The Caldecott Foundation , formerly known as the Caldecott Community , is a UK charity which provides therapeutic care and education for disadvantaged and vulnerable children. It has been based in the Borough of Ashford in Kent since 1947 and operates seven registered children's homes in Kent and Nottinghamshire as well the Caldecott Foundation School . The foundation's roots go back to 1911, when Leila Rendel founded
52-462: A day nursery in the St Pancras district of London which catered to the children of women working in a nearby factory. It later evolved into a pioneering boarding school in Kent , first for working class children, and then for distressed and vulnerable children who had been placed into care. Rendel named the community after the children's book illustrator Randolph Caldecott whose pictures adorned
78-637: A director of Thorn EMI from 1981 to 1986. John Brabourne received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, as producer of Romeo and Juliet (1968) and A Passage to India . In 1985, Brabourne was invested as a Fellow of the British Film Institute , an organisation he also served as a Governor. In 1993, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire . He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1990 when he
104-649: A large Victorian residence in Smeeth . Several residential homes were constructed on its grounds as well as a purpose-built school nearby which opened in 2000. The foundation launched another appeal in 2011, its centenary year. The appeal raised £750,000 which was used to upgrade the foundation's supported accommodation and to set up two vocational training centers. As of 2021, the Foundation's services include therapeutic residential care, education both through tutoring and small classes in their residential care homes or at
130-634: A large country house designed by Robert Adam surrounded by parkland. Located near Ashford in Kent, it had served as a military hospital during World War II. That same year with a grant from the Nuffield Trust , Rendel set up the first experimental reception centre in England to assess the most appropriate placement for children who had been taken into care. Mersham would remain Caldecott's home for over five decades. Its owner, Lord Brabourne became
156-406: A long-time supporter of the community and served on its board of governors for over 40 years. Leila Rendel retired from active directorship of the community in 1967 and died two years later at the age of 86. James King succeeded her as the director and served in that post until his retirement in 1993. Like Rendel, he was awarded an OBE for his work with the community. During his tenure he reorganised
182-520: Is among his films. His other motion pictures include Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Death on the Nile (1978), and Little Dorrit (1988). In 1970, he founded Mersham Productions, a production house named after his family seat in Kent, which produced many of his works thereafter. He served as a director of Thames Television (later chairman) and Euston Films from 1978 to 1995, and
208-689: The English Poor Laws , a pioneer girls' club leader and a militant suffragist . Their school was located at Cartwright Gardens in St Pancras and mainly catered to the children of women working in a nearby matchbox factory. An admirer of Randolph Caldecott 's children's book illustrations, Rendel named the nursery school in his honour and adorned its walls with a frieze of his pictures. Rendel's grandfather, Alexander Meadows Rendel , provided them with an endowment and further donations were received from her large circle of family and friends. By 1914
234-691: The University of Kent from 1993 to 1999. On 27 August 1979, while the family was on holiday in Mullaghmore, County Sligo , Lord Brabourne's father-in-law, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, took a number of family members out lobstering on his motorboat, Shadow V , in Donegal Bay. Having planned to murder Mountbatten, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) placed a bomb inside the boat on the night of the 26th. Mountbatten and several members of
260-715: The Caldecott School, and therapeutic fostering placements. Caldecott Fostering moved onto the Ashford site in 2020. The Foundation is governed by a board of trustees whose chairman is Charles Lister OBE. Nick Barnett was appointed as managing director in March 2017. The Caldecott Foundation School is an independent special school located on Station Road in Ashford, Kent near the foundation's headquarters. It provides educational services and integrated therapy for children in
286-514: The Maidstone area in 1932 where it occupied Mote House . The World War II bombing of Maidstone led to the community moving to Hyde Heath in Dorset in 1941 where they remained for the duration of the war. Lord Lytton served as chairman of the school's trustees. During that period 100 boys and girls, including 15 Jewish refugees , were living in the community. They ranged in age from 1 to 16. At
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#1732790706088312-599: The army, Brabourne began working as an assistant production manager for certain television productions, mostly based on war-related themes. He graduated to the role of production manager by the early 1950s, and finally became a producer in his own right in 1958, with Harry Black a romantic story set in India, with war as the distant context. This was followed by Sink the Bismarck! (1960). War, Empire and India were recurrent themes in his work, and A Passage to India (1984)
338-567: The community's structure and set up smaller family units for the residential care of the children and young people in its care. With the impending expiry of the lease on Mersham-le-Hatch in the late 1990s, the community's organization underwent further structural changes, and in 1997 changed its name to the Caldecott Foundation. An £8m appeal was launched to fund the future accommodation and expansion of Caldecott. In 2000,the foundation's new headquarters were opened at Caldecott House,
364-615: The first co-educational boarding school in the UK for working-class children. When the lease on Charlton Court expired in 1924, the school moved to another country house in Goffs Oak , a village in Hertfordshire and remained there for the next eight years. During its time there the community increasingly took in distressed and vulnerable children whose family lives had been disrupted by death, illness, and divorce. The school moved back to
390-575: The party were killed the next morning when the bomb was triggered by an IRA observer onshore who was armed with a radio detonator. The dead included Brabourne's 83-year-old mother, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne ; one of his twin 14-year-old sons, Nicholas Knatchbull; and a local boy, 15-year-old Paul Maxwell from County Fermanagh who had been hired for the summer as Mountbatten's boat boy. Brabourne, his wife Patricia, and their other twin son Timothy were severely injured, but survived
416-475: The residential care of the foundation and delivers the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2 through Key Stage 4 . The school has a sixth form and also provides vocational training in a number of areas. The vocational training includes an off-site training center for motor vehicle mechanics which is also open to pupils from other schools. As of 2017, 27 children and young people were enrolled in
442-486: The school was well-established with a written constitution and Percy Nunn as its chairman. Princess Louise served as its president. The continued German bombing of London and subsequent condemnation of the St Pancras building by the local council in 1917 led the Caldecott Community to move with its teachers and children to Charlton Court, a large country house near Maidstone . In the process it became
468-415: The school. The pupils range in age from 7 to 18 and are all eligible for pupil premium funding from the UK government. Many of them had been previously excluded from other care or educational settings because of their social, emotional and behavioural problems. According to the school's 2017 Ofsted inspection report, all pupils in the previous three years who left the school at the end of Year 11 or from
494-660: The sixth form went on to further education, training or employment. Borough of Ashford Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 203390947 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:45:06 GMT John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne , CBE (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005), professionally known as John Brabourne ,
520-400: The time, only children up to the age of 11 were educated within the community itself. The older boys and girls went to local secondary schools. Over the years, ten Caldecott pupils were sent to Gordonstoun School on scholarships. Leila Rendel was a life-long friend of Kurt Hahn , Gordonstoun's founder, and was a founding trustee of the school. In 1947 the community moved to Mersham-le-Hatch,
546-416: The walls of the St Pancras nursery. The foundation was officially incorporated in 1946 as the Caldecott Community. Its name was changed to the Caldecott Foundation in 1997. The Caldecott Comminuty began its life in 1911 when Leila Rendel and her friend Phyllis Potter set up their own nursery school based on the progressive ideas of Margaret McMillan and Leila's aunt Edith Rendel who was an active critic of
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#1732790706088572-551: The wedding was Squadron Leader Charles Harris-St. John. Lady Brabourne was to inherit her father's peerages in due course. This would make Lord and Lady Brabourne among the few married couples to each hold peerages in their own right. Also, Lady Brabourne was related to the British royal family, and her aunt Louise Mountbatten was at that time the Crown Princess (later Queen) of Sweden. In February 1947, only months after
598-529: The wedding, Brabourne's father-in-law was appointed Viceroy of India . The newly-wed couple spent several months in India, residing with her parents in the viceregal palace . In November the same year, Lady Brabourne's first cousin Philip, Duke of Edinburgh wed Princess Elizabeth , future Queen of the United Kingdom. Lord and Lady Brabourne had eight children: In the late 1940s, shortly after leaving
624-422: Was a British peer , television producer and Oscar -nominated film producer. Married to the elder daughter of 1st Earl Mountbatten , Brabourne was a survivor of the bombing which killed his father-in-law, mother and son . Brabourne was born in 1924, the second son of Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne , and his wife, Lady Doreen Browne . He was educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford . He
650-610: Was barely 14 when his father died in February 1939 and his elder brother, Norton , inherited the Barony . At the end of the war, Brabourne returned to England and settled in the family seat, Mersham in Kent. On 26 October 1946, at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire, at the age of 21, he married Patricia Mountbatten , elder daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten , later 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Brabourne's best man at
676-568: Was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Old Brewery venue in London. Despite an active career, Brabourne was also a country gentleman, and took his local responsibilities seriously. He served as a governor of various schools, including Norton Knatchbull School (founded by an ancestor c. 1630 AD) from 1947 to 2000; Wye College in Kent from 1955 to 2000, and Gordonstoun School from 1964 to 1994. He also served as Pro-Chancellor of
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