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. The Aldridge Foundation currently sponsors 8 academies or schools and educates students from primary to secondary to sixth form level across England. All of the schools are non - selective. Its is also a co-sponsor of two University Technical Colleges, which have university and employer lead sponsors.
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. Alongside this, the Aldridge Foundation have also developed their own 'Quality Framework' which is used to support performance improvement.
In 2015 Darwen Aldridge Community Academy was named the Lancashire Telegraph's Secondary School of the Year 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.
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