Growing your trust
Adding schools to your trust
4 articles- Adding a school to your MAT: resource toolkitUse our downloadable resources to assess your trust's capacity to grow, and to conduct thorough due diligence on each joining school.
- Avoiding the pitfalls of MAT expansionAdding schools to your MAT without a clear sense of purpose can potentially lead to monetary loss, reputation damage and school rebrokerage. Read on to understand how you can avoid these pitfalls.
- Developing a process for new schools joining your trust: case studyThe Flying High Trust shares its approach to new schools joining the trust. Learn about the due diligence process, how it assesses its own capacity to grow and how it inducts a new school over the first year.
Getting the right structure
4 articles- Branding your MAT and schoolsFind out how to brand or re-brand your MAT and schools. Learn how to use branding to celebrate your individual schools and involve stakeholders, while keeping branding consistent across your trust.
- How to make changes to your academiesIf you’re planning to make changes to your schools, such as changing your age range or moving to new premises, there's a process you must follow. Find out about the requirements and the steps involved.
- How to review your operating modelYour operating model sets out the functions of your trust and how they're delivered. Use our tools to evaluate your current model and find out how to design and implement any changes you need to make your processes more effective.