Adding schools to your trust

Use our downloadable resources to assess your trust's 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.

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.