Join our Trust

The appeal of developing a thriving Multi Academy Trust lies in the opportunity to raise pupil attainment, share the responsibilities of business operations, empower local decision-making, and strengthen professional leadership.

Joining a Trust is not a quick fix, and immediate improvements are not guaranteed. However, becoming part of a collaborative network of schools offers significant long-term benefits—both operational and cultural—that support sustainable growth and educational excellence.

Stronger Leadership

School leaders and teachers can combine their knowledge and planning abilities to work on challenges and solutions together with our highly skilled and experienced Central Trust Team. 

Increased capacity at school level

Enabling school staff and governance committee members to concentrate on their core business of teaching and learning and welfare of staff and pupils.  

Cross phase Co-operation

The opportunity for Catholic Primary and Secondary schools to work together, sharing ideas and experience, and providing enhanced transition opportunities for pupils moving from primary to secondary education.

Greater Protection

Smaller Catholic schools become part of a much larger organisation through membership.

Strategic Management

Governance Committee Members and Directors can draw on each other’s experience to formulate strategic approaches.

Shared Staffing

Where appropriate, human resources within schools can work across multiple sites, particularly in a localised Trust. This can appease the recruitment challenges facing the teaching industry and offer more varied opportunities to staff.

Specialist Resources

With combined funding in a Trust, specialist knowledge can be bought in many different areas, spanning academic, extra-curricular, and operational functions.

Professional Development

Increased training and development opportunities for all staff including leadership development at all levels.  This can be organised across multiple schools, and is included as part of our CPD core offer programme, which enables us to upskill as many individuals as possible per session.

Economies of Scale

A Trust is able to purchase as a whole, thereby achieving economies of scale not achievable by schools as individuals. With ever tightening budgets, this can help schools maintain and build upon the resources and standards they aspire to.

Shared Accountability

As a Trust represents multiple schools, it is in its interest to raise the profile of each, in line with rising expectations.

Protecting Individual School Identity

Our schools already have specific individual and cherished identities.  The Trust will not override these identities.  Through the Trust they will be strengthened, encouraged to develop and celebrated.

What will change for staff?

• The Trust become the employer, but all staff are TUPEd across, therefore their terms and conditions are protected and will remain the same as currently in place for all staff

• Positive impact of improved training and development opportunities

• Working with staff across schools in the Trust and sharing practice

What will change for pupils?

• On a day-to-day basis, quite simply nothing.  Everything that pupils know and love about the school will remain exactly the same, but there will be greater opportunities to further enhance the experience of pupils within our schools

Interested in finding out more?

 Drop us a line at office@kcsp.org.uk or call 01622 232 662