Greenwood Academies Trust | |
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Address | |
, Nottinghamshire, NG4 2JY United Kingdom | |
Coordinates | 52°57′19″N1°04′37″W / 52.955183°N 1.077013°W |
District information | |
Type | Multi-academy trust |
Established | 31 March 2009 |
Chair of the board | Mike Hamlin |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The Greenwood Academies Trust is a large multi-academy trust in England, centred around the Nottingham Academy, which was formerly the Greenwood Dale School. There are 34 academies within the trust, educating over 17,000 pupils. [1] The trust's mission is "to enable every child within our academies to be the best they can be".[ citation needed ]
The academies within the trust are clustered into four geographical regions:
Each region has a liaising advisor. Individual schools do not have local governing bodies but advisory panels.
A Central Team operates across the trust providing support services for finance, ICT, procurement, human resources, catering, data, curriculum development, staff development, health and safety. Schools have control of 94.5% of their budget: the Central Team budget is 5.5%. [2]
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It consists of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland. The region has an area of 15,627 km2 (6,034 sq mi), with a population over 4.5 million in 2011. With a sufficiency-level world city ranking, Nottingham is the only settlement in the region to be classified by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
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