TRUST INFORMATION
The Essa Foundation Academies Trust is a charitable company established to set up and run academies and free schools in Bolton and further afield and provide recreational and leisure facilities in the interest of social welfare. The Trust is funded and regulated by the Department of Education. Academies and free schools are independent state funded schools.
ESSA FOUNDATION ACADEMIES TRUST
The Trust's sponsor is the Essa Foundation Trust, which is an educational charity set up by the philanthropic Patel family, owners of a leading pharmacy chain in the North West of England, to encourage research, development and the introduction of best practice across schools and curriculums. The Essa Foundation Academies Trust has been a multi-academy trust since 2014: It was originally a single academy trust - the Essa Academy Trust from 2008-2014. There are currently two academies in the Trust - Essa Academy, an 11-16 school which opened in January 2009 and Essa Primary Academy, a free school for primary aged children which opened in September 2014.
CORPORATE INFORMATION
EFA Trust Signed Accounts 2021-22
EFA Trust Signed Accounts 2020-21
Publication of Executive Pay 2022 - 23
Essa Academy Supplemental Funding Agreement
Essa Primary Supplemental Funding Agreement
Academy and free school: Master Funding Agreement
Deed of Variation of Funding Agreement
EFA Trust Scheme of Financial Delegation
Facility Time Declaration September 2019 - August 2020
Terms of Reference for the Board of Directors and its Committees
Remits and Terms of Reference for LGBs
Actions Delegated to Academy Principals
Privacy Notice for Parents/Carers - Your Own Data
Privacy Notice for Parents/Carers - Your Child's Data
Privacy Notice - The School Workforce
Privacy Notice - Governors, Trustees & Volunteers
Privacy Notice - Suppliers of Goods and Services
Publication of Executive Pay - 2019/20
Financial Benchmarking Service
Charging and Remissions Policy
Trade Union Facility Time Disclosure - 2021-22
Company info
i) Company registration number – 06731593 (England and Wales)
ii) Registered office
Lever Edge Lane
Bolton
Lancs
BL3 3HH
Copies of archived EFA Trust Board of Directors agendas, reports, and minutes (excluding confidential items) and accounts from previous years are available on request.
Copies of archived Essa Academy LGB and Essa Primary Academy LGB agendas, reports, and minutes (excluding confidential items) from previous years are available on request.
In both cases please email your request to info@efatrust.org