Deadline: 16-Dec-22
Apply for funding to help trusts develop their capacity and take on underperforming schools, particularly in education investment areas.
The Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF) is a competitive grant fund available to help trusts develop their capacity to grow. It has a particular focus on supporting strong trusts, and strong schools forming trusts, to take on underperforming schools in education investment areas (EIAs).
Strands
- For projects in which your trust will take on at least one inadequate or requires improvement school in an EIA
- Maximum: £300,000
- Minimum: £50,000
- For projects in which a trust takes on either at least one inadequate or requires improvement school outside of an EIA or any school within an EIA
- Maximum: £200,000
- Minimum: £50,000
- For trusts taking on good or outstanding schools outside of an EIA.
- Maximum: £100,000
- Minimum: £50,000
Eligible Projects
The following types of growth project are eligible for TCaF:
- applications from schools to convert to academy status and form a multi-academy trust (MAT)
- sponsor matches for schools with directive Academy Orders (dAOs)
- trust mergers, including a single academy trust (SAT) joining a larger MAT and SATs joining together to create new trusts
- academy transfers from one trust to another
- local authority established MATs
- approved free school bid proposals
Eligibility Criteria
If you are an academy trust or local authority-maintained school in England, to apply to TCaF 2022-2023 window 2 you must:
- be considered by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to be of sound financial health. As a minimum requirement, you must not have an open financial notice to improve.
- have an eligible growth project that is approved by an RD between 1 July 2022 and 16 December 2022.
For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-to-the-trust-capacity-fund