A huge merger of multi-academy trusts has taken place in the West of England, creating a second ‘mega-MAT’ organisation that will have almost 12,000 children and 1,500 staff under its umbrella.
The Futura Learning Partnership has merged with the Clevedon Learning Trust to create a huge organisation that will run state-funded nurseries and schools for children from the age of two to 19. The new mega-MAT has a total of 28 schools, from primary and secondary schools in some of the most economically deprived areas of South Bristol to small village schools in rural Somerset.
It is the second such merger of two already large multi-academy trusts in the past few months. Just before Christmas, Bristol Live reported how a merger between the Gatehouse Green Learning Trust and the Excalibur Academies Trust had created a ‘mega-MAT’ that would be running a total of 22 schools in Bristol and beyond, including some of the city’s biggest secondary schools.
