Growing your trust

Use our downloadable resources to assess your capacity to grow and to conduct thorough due diligence on each joining school.

Adding 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.

The Flying High Trust share their approach to new schools joining the trust. Learn about their due diligence process, how they assess their own capacity to grow and how they induct the new school over the first year.

Find out how to brand or re-brand your MAT and schools. Learn how to use branding to celebrate your individual schools and involve parents, staff and pupils, while keeping branding consistent across your trust.

If 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.

Your operating model is vital to understanding what your trust does and how it's doing it. Follow our guide and use our tools to ensure you have the right model to deliver your educational support and administrative functions sustainably.