Adding schools to your trust

  • Adding a school to your MAT: resource toolkit
    Use our downloadable resources to assess your capacity to grow and to conduct thorough due diligence on each joining school.
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  • Avoiding the pitfalls of MAT expansion
    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.
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  • Developing a process for new schools joining your trust: case study
    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.
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  • MAT mergers: what to consider
    Merging a multi-academy trust (MAT) with another trust is a big decision. Get advice on what you need to bear in mind before you go ahead with the merger to make sure your trusts are a good match.
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  • Proactively collaborate with and support schools in your area
    Adrian Rogers, CEO of Chiltern Learning Trust, shares the trust's approach to building trusting relationships with local schools – a model it learnt during lockdown, and one which it's now added to its due diligence process.
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