News & articles

• 26 August 2022

Bright Futures students explore the dramatic landscape of Snowdonia National Park

As part of our Bright Futures programme, young people facing various personal challenges from London and Lancashire came together for a three day outdoor activity residential to help develop key life skills and have time for valuable self-reflection. Surrounded by beautiful scenery – mountains, waterfalls, vast green valleys and tumbling rivers – we saw their confidence grow as they continued to build on the skills developed through their in-school coaching sessions.

• Building confidence through outdoor experiences and coaching

• 23 August 2022

Girls Community Cricket Programme inspires 1000’s to take up sport

It has been a momentous summer already for women’s sport. Football finally came home with the Lionesses beating the Germans at Wembley to claim the Women’s Euros last month, and women swept to gold in a host of events at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. With interest and participation in women’s sport reaching unprecedented levels, women and girls across the country are now looking to a new generation of sporting heroines. Sport has always been central to the Aldridge Foundation’s mission to equip young people with transferable skills and attributes that will help them throughout their life at school and continue benefitting them as they go on to further education and the world of work.

• Developing skills through sport

• 18 August 2022

Skills and mindset are as important as grades

Today is always a milestone day for young people as they collect their A-Level results. It marks the end of their school careers and the start of their future and life outside of the school gates.

• 1 August 2022

Developing confidence through cricket and camping

46 students from Duke’s Aldridge Academy in Tottenham head to the Sussex countryside for three days of sport and outdoor activities to help them build confidence, become more independent and discover new skills.

• Developing skills through sport
• Building confidence through outdoor experiences and coaching

• 24 June 2022

Aldridge Foundation launches Futures Hub

We’re excited to announce our new Futures Hub, created in partnership with wellbeing technology specialist Frog Systems. The digital platform is a ‘one stop shop’ for students thinking about and taking their next steps post school, giving them access to a collection of articles, resources, and templates to help them as they go onto further education and the world of work.

• 16 June 2022

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize 2022 – winners announced

The Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize is an annual competition for aspiring artists from Aldridge schools.  In the competition’s third year, we were delighted to receive over 180 entries across five categories: Fine Art, Graphics, Photography, Film and Textiles. The work was judged by a panel of art experts including Elinor Olisa and Isobel Beauchamp, co-founders of Artellite, which was one of the very first online graduate art galleries.

• Discovering creative arts pathways 

• 7 June 2022

Are school assets being maximised for local community and economic potential?

Since the first Aldridge School opened in Blackburn with Darwen in 2006, we have been committed to improving life chances for young people in some of the most deprived areas of the country.  Social mobility is at the heart of everything the Aldridge Foundation has achieved over the last 16 years, founding a family of 9 academies and colleges across Blackburn with Darwen, Brighton & Hove, Kensington & Chelsea and Haringey. 

• 20 May 2022

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize 2022 finalists announced

The prize, now in its third year, gives young people the opportunity to enter their work into a professional exhibition.

• 16 May 2022

Incredible ideas from young entrepreneurs

On 29th April, young people from Aldridge Schools across England travelled to London to pitch their Social Enterprise ideas to a panel of entrepreneurs and business leaders.

• Exploring enterprise & entrepreneurship

• 12 May 2022

Looking after your mental health & wellbeing through exams and beyond

We all know the importance of looking after our mental health, especially during those moments in life when we’re experiencing big changes, which might make us feel a whole mixture of emotions from excitement to worry.