Bright Futures Educational Trust is a multi-academy trust set up in 2011. The Trust is made up of a richly diverse group of schools in Greater Manchester and Blackpool.
We are passionate about working together within and beyond the Trust to achieve our aspirational vision: the best for everyone, the best from everyone. We are an organisation that is underpinned by values of: community, integrity, and passion.
In everything we do, we remember that we are accountable to the children, families, and communities that we serve.
Our schools have their own identities, form one organisation and have one employer, Bright Futures Educational Trust. Bright Futures’ Board of Trustees maintains strategic oversight of the Trust and delegates some of its responsibilities to the Executive Team, Heads of School and local governing bodies. We place a high value on integrity and probity and take seriously our accountabilities for making the best use of public money. How decisions are made is described in our delegation framework. You can find out more about the Trustees and the Executive Team on our website: www.bright-futures.co.uk
The Central Team includes the Executive Team: John Stephens, CEO; Lisa Fathers, Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Lynette Beckett, Director of People & Strategy and Anna Sharpley, Chief Finance Officer.
The focus of these roles is to work with schools, providing high quality and timely guidance, leadership, challenge, and support. In addition to the Executive Team, we have central operations for finance, communications and marketing, HR, educational psychology, and digital technologies.
Bright Futures Professional Development Institute is another important outward facing component of our organisation.
Underneath this umbrella we have several hubs. Bright Futures Training which provides school improvement services and CPD to over 700 schools, NW1 Maths Hub, providing mathematics training and coaching to 500 schools, and Bright Futures SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training) which is the largest in the northwest. Within the Development Institute, Bright Futures also has two Teaching School Hubs, serving Manchester, Stockport, Salford, and Trafford. Bright Futures Send Outreach is another service which we provide across the northwest. We have also been designated as an Early Years Stronger Practice Hub to work across the northwest as the Bright Futures Early Years Hub.
Collaboration and strong relationships form one of the ‘commitments’ in our Strategy and all components of the Bright Futures’ family work closely together. Our Strategy was developed collaboratively and can be found on our website: Our Strategy.
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