Registered Charity Number: 1144043

ABOUT USThe Tutor Trust is an education charity based in Manchester that provides an intervention solution designed to help every pupil achieve their potential. We aim to help close the attainment gap in the English education system.

Our mission is a simple one, but very radical: We aim to democratise tuition and to make top-quality tutors available to children whose parents could never afford to hire a private tutor.

We achieve this aim by partnering with schools and colleges (mostly in the more challenging parts of Greater Manchester) and recruiting and training bright students from the University of Manchester.

The Tutor Trust was set up in Manchester as one of the launch grants of the Education Endowment Foundation, and delivered its first tuition session in Whalley Range High School, Manchester, on 27 February 2012.

Since then the Tutor Trust has worked with over 2,000 pupils in over 40 schools in Greater Manchester and is growing daily. We work with pupils in Manchester, Trafford and Salford, and we are in discussions about work in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Stockport and Tameside.

“We are supporting the Tutor Trust because we believe that it has the potential to improve outcomes for young people across Greater Manchester. I encourage other local authorities, schools and colleges to talk to the Tutor Trust about how its tutors could work with their pupils.”

Sir Peter Lampl,Chair of Trustees of the Education Endowment Foundation

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Currently working with 26 secondary schools in Greater

Manchester

We have also been commissioned by Manchester and Salford city

councils to provide tuition to 40 Looked After Children

We trained 225 tutors in the first 12 months, all of them students at the

University of Manchester

Primary Pilot of the Tutor Trust model, with over 250 pupils across

14 Manchester primary schools (English and Maths tuition for SATs).

This July and August we’re providing tutors for Summer Schools in partnership with

Manchester City, Manchester United and Lancashire Cricket Club.

Delivering tuition in three core subjects (English, Maths and Science) at both KS3 and KS4

Over 8,000 hours of tuition delivered so far, to over 2,000 pupils

We are working with pupils from across the ability range, including

pupils on C/D borderline and Gifted and Talented students.

The Tutor Trust was set up by Nick Bent and Abigail Shapiro in September 2011.

“Your students are fantastic ambassadors for the Tutor Trust and have engaged our pupils in a very positive fashion.”

Guy Hutchence, Principal, East Manchester Academy

WHAT NEXT?Tutoring our 2,000th pupil is a huge achievement but we are not stopping there.

The Tutor Trust exists to help every child achieve their potential and we are working hard towards this goal here in Manchester and beyond.

We have aspirations to offer our unique, not-for-profit tuition service in towns and cities across the UK. We hope to offer both primary and secondary tuition in either Leeds or Liverpool in the 2013/2014 academic year.

Our Tutors

Our Partner Schools

We are able to leverage some of the huge intellectual capital of the University of Manchester into communities where many children really struggle to achieve their academic potential. Our tutors are carefully screened to be good role models as well as gifted tutors.

All of our tutors are academically bright, committed, personable and inspiring individuals. We provide 2.5 days of intensive training and of course we ensure each tutor has an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (CRB). Plus we insure them.

The Tutor Trust has worked in 26 Greater Manchester secondary schools in its first 12 months. We have also worked with Manchester College, to provide Maths and English tutors for GCSE resits.

In addition the Tutor Trust has helped Looked After Children across Manchester and Salford at both primary and secondary schools.

We have also run a pilot with the Royal Northern College of Music to provide tutors who can help pupils with the composition element of Music GCSE.

Tuition has been delivered flexibly in schools, either during lesson time, at the end of the school day, on Saturdays or in the form of holiday revision groups. Our Primary Pilot involves 250 Year 6 pupils across 14 Manchester primary schools. We will continue working with many of these pupils as they move into Year 7 at secondary school.

“I have had a fantastic experience tutoring and cannot recommend it highly enough!”

Nick Albrow, English and Maths Tutor and Teach First participant

Our Supporters

The Tutor Trust has so far received financial backing from the Education Endowment Foundation, SHINE Trust, the Oglesby Charitable Trust, the Manchester Evening News and Manchester City Council.

Because we work on a strictly not-for-profit basis (we are a registered charity) we are able to maintain a close professional partnership with the University, with Teach First and with Manchester City Council that no commercial enterprise could ever have.

We are fortunate in that many professional firms in Manchester have assisted us on a pro bono basis; PWC did our business planning; we have rent-free offices provided by Bruntwood; Pannone’s law firm helped us to get registered with the Charity Commision; Mace supported us with the creation of our policies and procedures; and our website was set up at no cost by Wilson Cooke.

“I absolutely loved my tutor to bits, she was amazing. She just came in every time and taught us things that in the exam I remembered. It definitely helped me.”

Ozzie Ahmed, Year 11, Trinity Church of England High School

Our Quality Assurance

All of the work we do is independently monitored and evaluated by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER). This includes both a qualitative element (fieldwork interviews with heads, teachers, pupils and tutors) and a quantitative element (analysis of pupil progress, including the impact of tuition on GCSE results).

We also have an Education Advisory Board which meets every term to oversee the key elements of our programmes. This is made up of heads, academics, local authority officers, tutors and other experts in the education sector. It is chaired by Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility at the University of Manchester.

Our Trustees

The Trustees of The Tutor Trust are Pete McIntyre (Chair), Eve Martin and Mike Emmerich.

www.thetutortrust.orgmail@thetutortrust.orgTwitter @thetutortrust

The Tutor Trust, Rodwell Tower,111 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2HY

t: 0161 228 3180

“The Tutor Trust is one of the most important and exciting developments in the English education system over the last 18 months.”

Lord Andrew Adonis, Trustee of Teach First and former Education Minister

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