The purpose of the Trust is to maintain good and outstanding schools, and to ensure the rapid improvement of schools which ne ... ed support now (and in the future); also to act as a vehicle for enabling the sharing of best practice and the economies of scale to be achieved across the group of academies. The Trust will act as the lead sponsor for any school that wishes to become an academy or for schools which are being directed to become sponsored academies by the Department of Education. This is dependent on their meeting our rigorous due diligence requirements and on both parties, the regional schools’ commissioner and the academy’s brokers believing that is it in their best interests to join. read more