REAch2 Academy Trust

REAch2 Academy Trust is the largest primary-only multi-academy trust in England. It operates 53 primary academies.

It was founded in 2012, it was one of the first to receive a share of the government's £10million Northern Sponsor fund.

People

Leadership (2016):

• Steve Lancashire, founder and Chief Executive of REAch2; former adviser for the Department for Education; knighted in 2016.
• Dean Ashton, business and policy director; former Trustee of Aspire Academy Trust.

Trustees (2016):

• Peter Little, chair of trustees. Investor in and director of a number of software businesses in the financial technology sector. Little, for example, is a director of Twigkit, a 'search' software company.
• Clare Walsh, co-founder of Metia media, a digital marketing agency, and has 30 years’ experience in the financial technology sector.
• Jeremy King, CEO & Founder of Attest, an online market research startup backed by investors Episode 1 Ventures. Formerly 9 years with McKinsey & Company. King is on the advisory board of Founders4Schools.
• Mark Taylor, head of education for compliance professionals at HSBC Holdings.
• Michael Peters, director of Camber Consulting, a public services company with 'considerable experience of helping to move education and care organisations to improve'. His firm is described as having 'undertaken major consultancy and management contracts' with, among others, Reach2 Academy Trust. Formerly Consultant Director of Education with Tribal Group.
• Tony Gilbey, Managing Director at HSBC (Global Head of HSBC’s Capital Goods and Automotive team, serving large corporates).
• Victoria Pigott, commercial litigator and partner at Mishcon de Reya.
• Rt Revd David Rossdale, former Bishop of Grimsby.
• Colin Powell, Director of Education for the Southwark Diocese Board of Education.
• Dr Louise Askew, translator and interpreter

Members (2016):

Linked companies

• Reach4 Academy Trust, established in 2015 as a sister trust to REAch2, working with primary, secondary and all-through schools.
• Reach2 Ltd

Contact

Website: www.reach2.org