Meadowhead Together
Meadowhead Together is a charity, formally known as The Meadowhead Community Learning Trust, that works to improve the life-chances and opportunities of the young people who attend Meadowhead and feeder primary schools by encouraging collaboration.
Meadowhead Together will provide small grants to relevant projects as well as funding to annual projects such as Everyone a Writer, the Trust Choir and employer engagement events such as work experience and mock interviews.
The Meadowhead Community Learning Trust was established in September 2009 and one of its first achievements enabled us to develop a very successful partnership with Norton College to provide A-Level courses until its closure in summer 2015.
We now have over 240 students studying Sixth Form qualifications on the Meadowhead Site, following our successful conversion to an official 11-18 school by the DfE in September 2013, and our rapid expansion to meet local demand for Further Education course provision.
We are now enjoying improved facilities with the construction of a new purpose built Sixth Form Centre which opened in November 2017.
Are you interested in supporting our careers and community projects? Please click HERE for the Expression of Interest Form.
The decision was made to rename the trust to 'Meadowhead Together' and to launch in Spring 2024 with a new trustee structure. The trustee board includes representatives of Meadowhead School and Sixth Form, representatives of local employers, a representative from a feeder primary school, a representative of further education, a representative of higher education and at least one representative of community organization that works with young people in the S8 area. The Charity number, 1135386, remains the same.
For dates of the MH Together Trust Directors meetings please visit: Governing Body & Meadowhead Together meetings - Meadowhead School
Meadowhead Together Organisational Structure
ChairChristine Murphy |
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Vice ChairGeorgina-Mary Rosson Gripple) |
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Higher Education TrusteeJon Wheat (Nottingham Trent University) |
Further Education TrusteeDan Bell (Sheffield College) |
Secondary School TrusteeKam Grewal-Joy (Meadowhead School) |
Primary School TrusteeJane Dawtry (Lower Meadow Primary School) |
Community Group TrusteeJoseph Connor (Greenhill Library) |
Local Business TrusteeMartin Downham (Hair Creative) |
Members with no voting rights:
David Sheppard
Tamsin Woodward
Leighton Collins
Treasurer – Kevin Elliott
Meadowhead Together Admin – Alison Huff
Meadowhead Together Manager - Maddie Udall
Meadowhead Together Business and Community Forum
As part of Meadowhead together, this forum will meet twice a year and will invite businesses and local communtiy groups to discuss a key topic with informal networking opportunities.
Meadowhead Together – Event and Projects Plan 2024-25 |
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Area of Activity (2024-25) |
Young People Involved |
Event/Project Details |
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Work Experience |
Y10 and Y12 students at Meadowhead |
A programme of week-long placements in February (Y12) and in July (Y10) with an in school programme for Y10 students who cannot secure work experience. |
Y12 – February 2025 Y10 – July 2025 |
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Mock Interviews |
Y10 and Y13 students at Meadowhead |
Opportunity for students to experience an interview with an employer. Volunteers from industry are matched with students based on their career aspirations. |
Y13 – December 2024 Y10 – May 2025 |
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Careers Aspirations Talks and Visits |
To benefit all students across trust – with a participant focus on disadvantaged students |
Employers volunteer to offer careers talks to particular classes and year groups. |
Ongoing |
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Futures Week |
All year groups including primary |
Employer/further/higher education stalls and activities for students. |
February 2025 |
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Careers in the Curriculum Links |
To benefit all students across trust |
Employers input at relevant curriculum points to support student understanding and engagement. Employers to provide feedback and input to curriculum leaders planning particular topics |
Ongoing |
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Employer Network |
To hold two employer network events for employers that work with students in the family of schools |
Inviting local businesses and organisations from the community to encourage networking and collaboration with local primary/secondary schools. |
Feb/March (TBC) Sep/October (TBC) |
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Christmas and Summer Fairs |
To benefit all students |
To support student-led initiatives and fundraising as well as provide income for the charity – employers to support event as appropriate i.e. raffle donations. |
12th June 2025 5th December 2024 |
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Big Challenge |
KS3 students at Meadowhead To explore primary equivalent |
External project, students enter in teams to explore a business idea, competing against other Big Challenge teams across the country to win awards. |
Ongoing |
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Everyone a Writer |
Primary students, KS3 students at Meadowhead |
Creative writing project launched across feeder primary schools and community. Each year has a theme, can be a poem, artwork, short story. Winning entries are included in the anthology with winners invited to read their pieces at event in the summer. |
Celebration event 10th July 25 |
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Trust Choir |
To involve students from each trust school |
Feeder Primary choirs come together with Meadowhead Choir to perform a concert with songs based around a theme. Raffle and ticket sales support future activities. |
Launched Oct 2024 Concert date: 27th March 2025 |
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Fundraising and Income |
To benefit students and projects across trust |
To identify opportunities to raise additional revenue to be used for key projects. |
Ongoing |
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Awarding Funding |
To support projects that benefit students at the family of schools and meet the charitable objectives |
Community groups/primary schools can bid for funding for projects which meet the objectives of the charity. All bids are considered at the 2 Strategy meetings. |
Ongoing |