News & articles

• 18 July 2019

Students’ life-changing experiences with Uganda’s Acholi Tribe

On 5th July 2019, a group of students from the Darwen Aldridge Community Academy travelled to Kampala, Uganda to help teach the children of the Acholi tribe, who were displaced from their homeland during the civil war.

• 15 July 2019

Students fundraise for Iceland trip

As part of our Inspire programme, aiming to increase independence and widen aspirations, the Aldridge Foundation are working with the British Exploring Society to part-fund and send five Aldridge students on a once in a lifetime, four-week expedition to Iceland. 

• Building confidence through outdoor experiences and coaching

• 2 July 2019

AfriDACA returns to help Acholi children

On 5th July 2019, a group of students from the Darwen Aldridge Community Academy will travel to Kampala, Uganda to help teach the children of the Acholi tribe, who were displaced from their homeland during the civil war.

• 28 June 2019

Former UTC students impress Oscar-nominated Director

Six students, who learned film production at UTC@MediaCityUK and Salford University, will present their short suspense thriller ‘Mortem’ to an audience of film industry execs, who they hope will commission a series from their work.

• 28 June 2019

Enhancing lives through cricket

The Aldridge Foundation has supported the development of the MCC Cricket Hub in Brighton, based at the Sir Rod Aldridge Cricket Centre.

• Developing skills through sport

• 26 June 2019

Aldridge connect launches

Our new Alumni programme connecting students from all Aldridge Academies has taken its first steps, allowing students to be able to keep in touch long after they have left secondary school.

• 20 June 2019

Entrepreneurs summer school launches for Aldridge students

Young people from communities facing some of the greatest economic and social challenges in the country are being given the chance to learn about enterprise and entrepreneurship courtesy of the Aldridge Foundation’s new Summer School, supported by professional services firm Smith & Williamson and Natwest.

• Exploring enterprise & entrepreneurship

• 7 May 2019

BBC R4 programme concludes “this is the kind of thing Academies were meant to be all about”

BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme recently visited Portslade Aldridge Community Academy to speak to staff, students and Sir Rod Aldridge as part of a feature reviewing the academy movement and its impact.

• 1 May 2019

“Value entrepreneurship as a route to social mobility”

The Aldridge Foundation is urging the Commission to add a greater focus on developing enterprise skills in primary and secondary education, and on valuing entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social mobility to its welcome recommendations.

• 4 April 2019

Enterprise and entrepreneurship summer school announced

The Aldridge Institute for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship inaugural Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Summer School for Aldridge students will be held at the University of the West of England’s Frenchay campus from Monday 24 June to Friday 28 June 2019.

• Exploring enterprise & entrepreneurship