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During February the team at GKA supported clients at interviews with the DfE for new Special Free Schools.  We hope to find out if the bids have been successful in March - fingers are crossed.

At the start of the year the company made charitable donations to two local charities: The Bradford Toy Library Home Start Bradford Both charities support vulnerable children, families and adults in the Bradford District where GKA is based and we felt this year rather than send cards at Christmas this would be a better alternative. We hope the money will go a little way to helping both charities during 2020!

The Elliot Foundation for the 4th time have asked GKA to conduct their Annual Principal’s Survey for the academic year 2018/19.  The Principal’s survey will consist of each Executive Headteacher/Headteacher completing an online survey on various aspects of the Trust before meeting Gail Khan in person to discuss and have their say on how the Trust is supporting the schools.  GKA will submit their report and findings before Christmas for the Elliot Foundation to action as necessary.

GKA could be your ideal partner to secure success in the round 2 application window. In 2018 GKA led two successful bids for the Mercian Trust and we would be delighted to work alongside you in generating a strong application for future expansion. Areas of expertise include: Developing your Evidence of Demand and business case for expansion Creation of your Fair Access and Partnership Plan Writing your application Quality Assurance of your final submission Project planning “The two successful applications…

Gail Khan Associates are pleased to announce that 2 applications submitted in August 2018 were successful in securing funding to help Queen Mary's Grammar School and Queen Mary's High School in pupil growth and building expansion programmes.  This will see over £4m of investment into the Mercian Trust and the two schools over the next two years.  Gail and the team at GKA delivered to extremely tight deadlines, managing the overall timeframe, resources, consultation process, technical aspects of the delivery…

In the autumn term Gail Khan was appointed by KPMG to facilitate a teaching and learning review of 5 female technical colleges in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  The review was requested by the authorities to help inform future planning and expansion programmes which will see more females having access to further education and ultimately employment opportunities.  The work consisted of a review of documentation, consultation activities with staff and students, data analysis, lesson observations and report writing

GKA recently supported 4 clients in preparing applications to the DfE for Development Improvement Funds and in March 2018 each client was notified they had been successful.  Congratulations to PROSPER Learning Trust, Ethos Academy Trust, Venn Academy Trust and Humber Education Trust. If GKA can help you in any aspects of preparing bids whether for school improvement, capital or new school projects, please get in touch!

GKA are pleased to announce they have been appointed to facilitate and project manage the creation of an exciting new Multi Academy Trust across Calderdale & Kirklees.  The trust will be called The Together Learning Trust and is consisting initially of 5 schools (Primary and Secondary).  GKA will project manage the overall delivery of the MAT ready to open in January 2019.

Joining or Forming a MAT? Find out all you need to know at the Stone King Conference on 10 May 2018 at the Carlton Park Hotel.  Guess speakers include Gail Khan from Gail Khan Associates, Jonathan Davis from Saffrey Champness Accountants and Roger Inman of Stone King LLP.  For more information and to book your place, please click on this link https://t.co/wZuEtoV5qO  

Gail Khan Associates have worked alongside Venn Academy Trust to secure its first Free School project into pre-opening.  Euler Academy will be a 5-11 Alternative Provision school in Hull catering for children with Social Emotional Mental Health issues and will offer schools and pupils an alternate option to support their needs ensuring they remain in mainstream education.  Gail Khan Associates were instrumental in the bid process providing content and quality assurance that enabled the bid to be successful.