Growing your Trust

We enable trusts to grow and flourish. Our support enables trust growth from initial feasibility, strategy, set-up, compliance and governance structuring through to planning and launch.

Our support includes:

• Growth strategy development
• Business case development
• Funding bid writing
• Free school bid support
• Due diligence & risk management
• Project management & onboarding support
• Post-merger support

Our Expertise

Our team has worked in trust leadership positions and understands the regulatory and mission-driven nature of forming and growing a trust. We understand the real-world complexity of absorbing new schools culturally, operationally and financially and bring our broad expertise to support your growth plans.

Our Partnership

We embed ourselves within your trust to support the vision, structures, and sustainable financial models from the ground up. We support trusts through every phase of analysis, due diligence, decision, planning and delivery with support tailored to your trust’s maturity and growth ambition.

Our Innovation

We provide trusts with supportive frameworks, toolkits and modelling tools for effective growth and opening of schools that become anchors in communities.

Our MD successfully grew Archway Learning Trust from 5 to 8 secondaries through a successful trust merger. Onboarding an entire MAT into Archway, we oversaw a complex financial and organisation change programme to establish a new, larger trust to education over a 1/3 of Nottingham City children.

“Nathan held us through the entire transfer process, negotiating with the DfE, LA and both Trust Boards to enact a successful transfer and create our new trust. Nathan worked with leaders to support the embedding of our shared vision, bringing to life the vision for our new Trust, whilst navigating challenging financial and compliance issues presented through due diligence. The transfer would not have been a success if it were not for Nathan’s leadership”.

Sian Hampton, CEO
Archway Learning Trust