Commitment from the top is an absolute necessity for undertaking a successful sponsorship. Support and enthusiasm from the wider field are also vital to a successful sponsorship if, for example, staff from the sponsor organisation are involved in training, mentoring, collaborating or day-to-day secondment, in the long or short term. Internal consultation is, therefore, an important consideration for any sponsoring organisation in terms of securing subsequent support and enthusiasm.
Good sponsorship also involves improving standards via effective governance. Beliefs, vision and ethos need to be translated into practice, and strategic leadership needs to be put into place.
The main challenge sponsors face is working with the academy and its community to turn commitments into reality. Sponsors need to ensure initially that the most appropriate group of people is recruited, including a range of the most appropriately experienced and qualified members with helpful connections in business or education.
They may need to work more closely than previously, in partnership with diverse, large groups of people in new areas. Once the key people are secured and engaged, the role of the sponsor and its governance is to focus clearly on ensuring that standards across the board are improving in line with clearly shared beliefs, vision and ethos.
The prime focus needs to reflect this at all times. Sponsors should ensure all key documentation reflects their purpose, plans and agreements. Rigorous, ambitious targets should be set for standards of attainment, so that progress can be easily monitored. Sponsors should monitor, evaluate and review their own practice and that of other key stakeholders, when and where necessary, through a balance of personal involvement and regular evidenced reporting procedures that reflect the outcomes of strategic plans.
Sponsors need absolute assurance that a range of strategies and systems are continuously achieving their identified vision and purpose. The sponsor needs to receive viable evidence of conversion of its vision and purpose into practice through a combination of support and challenge. This might involve:. The level and detail of the practical community involvement of individual sponsors will differ according to each one's business, industry or educational background.
Similarly, the nature and purpose of each academy will differ as each will be pursuing its own agenda, based on particular aims and values. Each academy will establish close relationships with parents and the local and wider communities of other educational establishments, business and industry. Sponsors can influence the academy at both board and day-to-day levels from the transition stages, allowing successful collaboration with forward-thinking schools, and other local, national and international organisations to develop much further.
Sponsors will provide access to a range of new networks and contacts which can be targeted to add value and ultimately have a wide impact by raising expectations, aspirations and educational outcomes.
Benefits are likely to be mutual: a mixture of business achievement and altruism. Sponsors' own interests can be intrinsically tied up with the local community, from both a business and a philanthropic stance. Any community improvement can benefit their business via:. An interested sponsor should first contact the regional schools commissioner RSC to discuss their ideas. If they agree, a Department for Education DfE sponsor lead will be assigned.
The profile of academy sponsors changes frequently as the DfE approves new organisations and as new sponsors take on more schools. Existing sponsors come from a wide range of backgrounds, including:. If the sponsor is a school that is already an academy, it must ask the trust to pass a resolution to show that it agrees with the plans to become a sponsor.
If the sponsor is a school that is not an academy, it needs to get approval from the governing body before submitting an application to become a sponsor. The governing body then has to pass a resolution to approve the sponsor.
It is likely that the governing body, Head and staff will want to get to know the sponsor before they pass this resolution. Once the resolution has been passed, the RSC has to approve the match officially. The RSC will ask for evidence of the specific support the sponsor would offer the academy.
Before it recommends the sponsor formally, the local Headteacher Board and academy both need to agree to it. Sponsored academies benefit from the experience, expertise and record of success that their sponsor s bring from other enterprises. Strong organisational or educational expertise can be applied to the academies, in partnership with experienced school managers, to transform the opportunities for young people, particularly in relation to school improvement.
The academies also benefit from the fresh perspective and on-going improvements in all aspects of performance brought by the sponsor s via:. Sponsors and their organisations gain considerably from the partnership too, not least from the knowledge they are transforming life chances for the next generation. For some, it may be by simply putting something back into the community. Sponsors are not required to provide additional funding for schools, although some may choose to do so.
The ESFA is responsible for the direct funding of academies, free schools and all 16—19 provision and distributes school funding resources to local authorities to be passed on to non-academy schools. The NCTL is a government agency that aims to promote high-quality teaching and school leadership. The Cabot Learning Federation in Bristol, has opened four primary academies this September - this would give a present total of ten academies in the Cabot Learning Federation with a further primary academy opening Sept this would bring the total up to eleven.
But for parents at the or so primary schools which will be forcibly transferred to academy status, the whole issue is filled with confusion - who are the sponsors, where do they come from - and which schools are going down the same route?
This has already started happening - witness Downhills School in Haringey which is being forced to become an academy. In order to make the data clearer, we have extracted the key spreadsheets from the DFE website - it includes open academies and those that will be opening soon. We've merged it together with key performance and pupil data about each school from the DFE 'spine' which lists almost every state school in the country , and spending datasets.
We've de-duplicated the data to try and create a definitive list from these disparate sources. Plus, background data from this page of school-level information. You can download our amalgamation of this data below. The data gives us an idea of where these schools are, who's sponsoring them and what kinds of establishments they are.
By our calculations, Kent has the most - either open or planned, followed by in Essex. In terms of sponsors, these are the biggest by total projects either open or upcoming. Are the schools themselves better? It's too early to tell, although results are down at some of them.
You can download the data below - or navigate around it on the fusion map here. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a global organization, representing the best of an international art form, and has members in countries all over the world.
Sponsoring a candidate for membership in the Academy is a serious commitment. It is important to be familiar with the admission criteria of your branch or category, if you are sponsoring someone as a Member-at-Large. Click here for branch and category requirements. A candidate for membership must be sponsored by two members of the branch for which the individual qualifies. One sponsor should initiate the sponsorship process on the Academy Member Portal.
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