Founded on Chancery Lane. Carried across an ocean.
Bishop Anstey High School has educated girls of Trinidad and Tobago since 1921. Our founder, Bishop Arthur Henry Anstey, wanted young women from every corner of our nation to have the same rigorous, dignified education as anyone else. A century of use, with expansion along the way, has asked a lot of the buildings that hold that mission up.
One hundred and five years later, after decades of our alums being educated and thriving in the US, three US-based Hilarians founded HAGE because the school that built them deserves buildings built to last, and the US giving culture will find a good home investing in the BAHS campus. Now Bishop's girls scattered across the United States can have a direct way to fund that upkeep: not just mentoring and guidance, but the roofs, labs, connectivity, and technology it happens in.
"Non sine pulvere palmam." Not without dust, the palm.
BAHS has seen what alumnae and corporate giving can do before: a 2024 donation helped refurbish the school's auditorium. HAGE exists to make that kind of investment easier for US-based sisters and their supporters — not just an occasional contribution, but a systematic, ongoing fund by the alumnae who know exactly what those rooms are worth.
The gardens, remembered.
Somewhere between the dust and the palm, there were the gardens. For decades, Hilarians spent the minutes between classes there — a green oasis of trees, benches, and the fountain, on a campus in the middle of Port of Spain. The gardens shaped our experience as much as any classroom did.
Those gardens need care now, the same way the buildings and the labs do. HAGE treats them as infrastructure, not decoration or an afterthought — restoring the serene, natural environment every Hilarian remembers, for the girls walking those same paths today.
