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The Reach Foundation
@thereachfoundation.bsky.social
System change through local action
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Join us — The Reach Foundation
www.reachfoundation.uk
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
✅ Guiding strategy—helping us scale and deepen our cradle-to-career approach.
✅ Providing challenge and support—to ensure our work delivers meaningful, systemic change.
✅ Expanding our reach—leveraging your networks and expertise to strengthen our work.
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you share our passion for rethinking education, place-based change, and supporting babies, children and young people in underserved communities, this could be a great opportunity to make a real impact. As a trustee, you’ll play a vital role in...
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We’re particularly keen to hear from those with expertise in educational leadership and/or community programme development—and *especially* from candidates based outside London.
March 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Established by ImpactEd Group and convened by representatives from the @ascl-uk.bsky.social , @cstvoice.bsky.social , @thereachfoundation.bsky.social and Challenge Partners, includes representatives from 18 academy trusts and local authorities from across the country.
The Engagement Platform
TEP exists to help schools improve pupil outcomes and build sustainable working cultures. We do this by enabling schools to easily interpret, compare and take action on robust staff engagement data.
www.tep.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Alternatively, start here, with Anne-Marie's op-ed in today's @schoolsweek.bsky.social

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schoolsweek.co.uk/how-to-deliv...
How schools could lead a transformation of childhood
Published today, the South West Social Mobility Commission's report shows the power of heads as community leaders
schoolsweek.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The message is clear: when schools embrace their civic role, the ripple effects reach far beyond the classroom.

👉 Read the full report and discover how the C2C Partnership is reimagining education here: news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...
Headteachers becoming “community connectors” to address multiple challenges of disadvantage in local areas, study shows
Headteachers are increasingly acting as “community connectors” - offering extra support services from their schools to address disadvantage in their localities, a new study shows. Food banks, parentin...
news.exeter.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Key insights include:

✅ Eight foundational steps to build C2C models.
✅ Fifteen shared practices driving collective impact.
✅ Real-world outcomes, such as improved attendance, stronger relationships, and better opportunities for all.
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
From 'Chat and Choose' coffee mornings to multi-agency hubs, these schools prove that strengthening community capacity is a driver—not a byproduct—of school improvement.
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This report, co-authored by Dr Anne-Marie Sim and Prof. Lee Elliot-Major, highlights the pivotal role schools and trusts play as community anchors, showcasing inspiring case studies from 4️⃣ of our partners...
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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We’re at a very exciting point at @thereachfoundation.bsky.social

Our journey began with a school in Feltham. The team there help secure brilliant outcomes for children.

But for ALL kids to flourish, a great school is necessary but not sufficient.

So we started to work deeper in our community.
December 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM