Two former education secretaries have urged the government to end a bureaucratic deadlock preventing Sir James Dyson donating £6 million to his local state primary school to help it expand.
The billionaire inventor wants to give a grant through his charitable foundation to the oversubscribed Malmesbury Church of England primary school in Wiltshire, which is rated outstanding by Ofsted, to build a dedicated centre for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, as well as seven new classrooms and a school hall.
Dyson, 76, has already funded a similar centre at Gresham’s, the independent school in Norfolk where he was a pupil, which opened in 2021.
