News & articles

• 2 June 2021

“Pupils’ lives transformed by inclusion unit” – Evening Standard

The Evening Standard newspaper recently reported on the success of an initiative that the Foundation have supported at Duke’s Aldridge Academy aimed at helping those students who are the most vulnerable and most likely to be at risk of exclusion.

• 13 May 2021

Year 8 students shine in social leadership project

A group of Y8 students from our Aldridge family of schools recently took part in our first Aldridge Foundation Social Leadership Bootcamp.

• Exploring enterprise & entrepreneurship

• 22 April 2021

Mentors and role models are more important than ever – can you help?

A quarter of children from the poorest backgrounds think ‘people like me don’t succeed’*. We can’t let young people think this way.

• 19 April 2021

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize finalists announced

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

• Discovering creative arts pathways 

• 26 March 2021

Aldridge Foundation’s latest ‘World of Work Week’: helping bridge the gap between schools and business

With most organisations forced to cancel work experience and internships during the pandemic, the Aldridge Foundation has been hosting a series of online careers events, connecting students with people from different industries.

• 17 March 2021

Introducing the Aldridge Foundation Youth Advisory Committee

We’re delighted to introduce the eight pupils chosen as Aldridge Foundation Ambassadors.

• 12 February 2021

Why sport matters

Sports can not only improve young people’s health and wellbeing, they can help develop important life and employability skills – and, vitally, a feeling of ‘anything is possible’.

• Developing skills through sport

• 11 February 2021

Change is coming

A poem that Year 8 students from different schools collectively and spontaneously created live on Zoom during today’s Social Leadership Bootcamp.

• 1 February 2021

Catch-up tutoring can’t wait – we owe it to the most disadvantaged children to act now

New research shows poorer pupils struggling more than ever in the second round of school closures.

• 5 January 2021

The Aldridge Foundation’s response to the new national lockdown

While Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement, on Monday 4 January, will not have come as a shock, it adds fresh urgency to our campaign to help young people already at a disadvantage.