Our Strategy:
Together for Bedford

Our 15-year goals:

• More children and young people facing disadvantage achieve their potential.
• High-quality, distinctive and financially sustainable education.
• High value, impactful bursaries to support children to access our schools.
• Maximum impact on community needs.
• A more effective, efficient, resilient organisation greater than the sum of its parts.

Our ambition for Bedford:

Our strategy, Together for Bedford, sees us build on our rich heritage in education and grant giving by working to transform young lives, right across our community.

We have set a long-term strategic goal: to invest in people’s futures.

We aim to work for a generation across our whole community, to help tackle the cyclical relationship between disadvantage, lack of opportunities, poor educational outcomes and future poverty.

We have launched the Accelerator Programme and Bedford Giving; two innovative and collaborative community programmes supporting children and young people. We are now working to strengthen this network and ultimately to mobilise the whole community in Bedford behind this common cause.

To succeed we are becoming more outward-facing, collaborative and inclusive. We are also becoming a knowledge engine, gathering evidence and insights and sharing with everyone who supports our mission, so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Our continuing commitment to high quality education and a generous bursary programme both support this goal, as does our grants programme, which aims to have the greatest impact we can for the people who need our help most.

Together we can build a community where everyone can thrive.