Trust growth
The benefits of being part of a Trust
As we know from our own experience, and from looking at the work of other Trusts, working in close working partnership with a group of schools brings about multiple benefits for everyone.
Key benefits of joining us:
- Stability in a fast changing educational landscape
- Harmonisation of vision, values, and ethos
- Each school retains its own unique identity and standing within its local community
- Highly effective governance with a clear scheme of delegation
- Access to highly effective policies, procedures, and systems, including robust financial management, compliance, scrutiny and audit policies and procedures to ensure financial regularity, effective use of resources, and full legal and ethical compliance
- Access to highly effective shared services and economies of scale (combined/bulk orders), supported by knowledgeable, highly qualified, and well organised school improvement, quality assurance, Communications, IT, Data, Finance, HR, and Site Management central teams
- Procurement savings for services such as insurance, legal advice/support, and energy
- Access to our specialist leaders, i.e. our school improvement partners, advice from a lead Ofsted inspector (our CEO), and sharing of curriculum expertise and best practice
- A ‘family’ of schools offering highly supportive networking and partnership working
- An effective CPD, coaching, and leadership programme for staff at all levels, to ensure excellent and continual development for all
A chance to generate income by offering school to school support with external partners
In addition, working in a close partnership brings additional peer to peer support, robust challenges and sparking of ideas, a network of support for leaders and staff at all levels, enhanced quality assurance mechanisms, the chance to easily learn from and share others excellent practice, enhanced research opportunities and much, much more.
Our growth offer:
The Rise Partnership Trust recognises that growth must serve for joining schools as well as the Trust. As such, we have a well-developed offer for schools considering joining the Trust, including:
- Highly effective governance with a clear scheme of delegation
- Access to highly effective policies and procedures, including robust financial management, compliance, scrutiny and audit policies and procedures to ensure financial regularity, effective use of resources and full compliance
- Access to highly effective shared services and economies of scale, supported by knowledgeable, highly qualified, well organised school improvement, quality assurance, finance, HR and site management central teams.
- A ‘family’ of schools offering highly supportive networking, an effective CPD, coaching and leadership programme for staff at all levels to ensure excellent staff development for all.
- Quality assurance and school improvement services led by experts and a chance to generate income by offering school to school support.
- Stability in a fast changing educational landscape.
Growth readiness:
As our Trust is looking to enter its next phase of growth we are preparing by:
- Further developing a strategic plan which covers the next phases of Trust development
- Enhancing the Trust’s Central Services in all the key areas, such as HR, Finance, IT and Facilities
- Further developing the capacity of the Central Team
- Enhancing the Trust’s offer, outreach and sustainable income through the creation of a therapy clinic as a trade subsidiary
- Reviewing Trust branding/marketing opportunities (including developing websites) Regularly liaising with Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) to investigate merger and sponsor opportunities (our ideal number of Trust schools being between 6 to 10 schools)
- Considering free school opportunities to open new special schools
- Engaging in local and national programmes to ensure our working practices at all levels are culturally diverse and ensure outstanding outcomes for all
- Developing new partnerships and seek further opportunities to share our practice with others (in and outside of London).
Our Trust aims to grow sustainably and in harmony with its vision and values, and recognises the importance of cultural alignment.
In pursuing growth opportunities, our Trust will focus on schools that share its core principles. This, however, does not imply that new schools will lose their unique identity. On the contrary, they will retain their own personality as well as autonomy over the delivery of the curriculum, as exemplified by our commitment to the continuation of Local Academy Boards.