Aldridge Foundation

The Aldridge Foundation is an educational charity which sponsors schools in England. It is based in Piccadilly, London.

The Aldridge Foundation was first registered as a charity in 2006 by Sir Rod Aldridge, after he retired from the business he founded Capita.[1] The Aldridge Foundation currently sponsors 11 academies or schools and educates students from primary to secondary to sixth form level across England. All of the schools are non - selective.

Each school that the Aldridge Foundation sponsors is governed independently by its own charitable trust, or where there are 'clusters' of Aldridge family schools they are invited to join multi - academy trusts. The Aldridge North West Education Trust covers four Aldridge schools in Lancashire: Sudell Primary School, Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio School and Darwen Vale High School.

All of the Aldridge Foundation schools are regularly inspected by Ofsted.[2] Alongside this, the Aldridge Foundation have also developed their own 'Quality Framework' which is used to support performance improvement.[3]

In 2014, Aldridge Foundation schools topped the league tables for school progress in Brighton and Hove.[4] In 2015 Darwen Aldridge Community Academy was named the Lancashire Telegraph's Secondary School of the Year [5] and one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe which have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education.[6]

Schools

References

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/can-instilling-a-sense-of-entrepreneurship-in-pupils-have-a-positive-effect-on-their-learning-9826864.html

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