What can the MILL Academy Trust offer?

The MILL Academy Trust's offer fosters continuous improvement, collaboration, and excellence across partner schools.

Our support is designed to ensure that children, staff, and the broader community benefit from high-quality, inclusive, and forward-thinking education.

Central to our offer is the mission to advance education for the public good, cultivating not only academic achievement but also social responsibility, civic engagement, and community well-being.   

 

Central Team Support

From the inception of our multi-academy Trust, it was important to us to ensure our central support team was set up in such a way to deliver the maximum benefit to our schools both financially and in terms of saving time and effort. We want to give our leaders the space to fully focus on their school, teaching and learning practices, pupil and staff development and community engagement. To facilitate this, the central support team takes the responsibility to lead on all non-teaching elements of school business, estates and operations. 

The central team budget also allows for school improvement support, resources, training and coaching. New school improvement initiatives or projects are often initially explored via central funding. The Trust’s Director of Education directly supports all schools in their quest for improvement and development – advising, coaching, mentoring and challenging. 

We recognise all schools can be at different points on their journeys and have differing needs so we do not top-slice budgets or restrict utilisation of central services. We do make a central recharge to our schools and this is based on the needs of the school and their usual consumption of central services but is also affordable in line with their budget. 

The central support team provides finance, budgeting, procurement, HR and payroll, estates and facilities management, business services, IT and Communications and marketing and design. We procure and deliver services which are aligned across our Trust but still meet the individual needs of our schools. 

Some of our staff are based at individual schools, others in the central team offices, but all are able to provide support and absence cover for their colleagues at any school. Headteachers and leaders in our Trust family can be assured of a supportive, professional and responsive service from our central team.