Setting up your Free School

It takes vision, drive and motivation to want to set up a Free School.

It also takes reliable advice, technical knowledge and structured support to bring your vision to life.

Cambridge Education has more than 20 years’ experience in creating successful new schools in the UK and abroad. We project managed The Free School Norwich, opened by Prime Minister David Cameron, and Kings Science Academy in Bradford.

Our aim is to help you to create a sustainable and cost-effective school with life-changing benefits for children, young people and their families.

We can deliver a complete end-to-end service or provide support with the following:

Whether you are a parent, a group of teachers, a school, college, university, charity or community group, we can support you through your initial application, help you create the business case to secure funding and advise you up to opening of your new Free School. 

We can put together an experienced team from a wide range of disciplines to deliver your ambition: our expertise ranges from curriculum development to staff recruitment, from communications strategy to governance, from buildings management to statutory and mandatory requirements.

Moreover, once your Free School is open, we can also support your education leadership team to deliver exceptional teaching and learning to raise standards of achievement for all pupils.

Our services apply to all forms of Free School, whether mainstream, alternative provision, SEN specialist, 16-19 school or independent school conversion.
 

Read about the 10 key areas of support that we offer

To discuss your Free School plans, contact 01223 463757 or freeschools@camb-ed.com

Cambridge Education is a trading name of Mott MacDonald Limited.