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City Academies: Sponsorship

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 26 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills who the sponsor or sponsors are of each academy; and how much each has contributed. (133035)

There are 47 academies now open. Information on the sponsor of each academy and the sponsors’ donations received to date towards open academies' capital costs—rather than total sponsorship committed—is given in the following table.

Sponsorship for the first academies has been provided in the form of a contribution to the capital costs of buildings. However, we have changed the sponsorship model and sponsors will now, as the norm, establish an endowment fund worth £2 million (or £1.5 million for the fourth or subsequent academy for sponsors of multiple academies), with a minimum of £500,000 payable in the first year. Payment of the endowment will normally be over five years. To date, only one open academy, St Mark's academy in Merton, has this form of sponsorship.

Sponsors’ donations contributing to capital costs are normally made over the lifetime of the building costs of the project, so in some cases a number of payments towards capital costs remain to be made. In other cases, sponsors' payments have been made, but are not recorded in the table as auditors have not yet completed their checks on whether these were spent on capital or recurrent costs.

We do not keep a record of sponsors' non-capital donations to academies.

£000

Open Academy Name

Sponsor(s)

Total evidence of use of sponsor contributions to end of March 2007

The Business Academy, Bexley

Garrard Education Trust

2,462

Greig City Academy, Haringey

Greig Trust with the London Diocesan Board for Schools

1,664

Unity City Academy, Middlesbrough

Amey plc

1,948

City Academy, Bristol

John Laycock/University of the West of England

1,670

Capital City, Brent

Sir Frank Lowe

1,993

City of London Academy, Southwark

Corporation of London

2,000

Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham

Sir Harry Djanogly

0

King's Academy, Middlesbrough

Emmanuel Schools Foundation

2,006

Manchester Academy

United Learning Trust (ULT)

1,286

The Academy at Peckham, Southwark

Harris Charitable Trust/Whitgift Foundation

2,986

The Walsall City Academy

The Mercers' Company/Thomas Telford Online

2,512

The West London Academy, Baling

Alec Reed

2,000

Lambeth Academy

ULT

1,500

The London Academy, Barnet

Peter Shalson

1,490

Mossbourne Community Academy, Hackney

Sir Clive Bourne

1,631

Northampton Academy

ULT

654

Stockley Academy, Hillingdon

Barry Townsley and others

1,452

Dixons City Academy, Bradford

Dixons CTC Trust

612

Harefield Academy, Hillingdon

David Meller and others

42

Marlowe Academy, Kent

Roger de Haan / Kent County Council

2,183

The Academy of St. Francis of Assisi, Liverpool

Diocese of Liverpool/RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

950

St Paul's Academy, Greenwich

Archdiocese of Southwark

200

Trinity Academy, Doncaster

Emmanuel Schools Foundation

2,000

North Liverpool Academy

Liverpool University/Granada Learning

0

Harris Academy Merton

Harris Charitable Trust

0

Grace Academy, Solihull

Bob Edmiston

2,000

Walthamstow Academy, Waltham Forest

ULT

27

Paddington Academy

ULT

429

David Young Community Academy, Leeds

Diocese of Ripon and Leeds

1,000

Harris Girls Academy East Dulwich

Harris Charitable Trust

0

The Harris Bermondsey Academy

Harris Charitable Trust

0

Sheffield Springs

ULT

1,500

Sheffield Park

ULT

1,000

Landau Forte College, Derby

Landau Forte Academy Trust

2

Westminster Academy

Exilarch's Foundation

0

The Petchey Academy, Hackney

Jack Petchey Foundation

932

The Burlington Danes Academy, Hammersmith and Fulham

ARK

0

Barnsley Academy

ULT

27

The John Madejski Academy, Reading

John Madejski

1,820

Sandwell Academy

Mercers Company Thomas Telford Online, HSBC, West Brom Albion FC, Tarmac Group

1,692

Haberdashers’ Knights Academy

Haberdashers1 Livery Company

296

Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Academy

Haberdashers' Livery Company

705

Salford City Academy

ULT

214

Gateway Academy, Thurrock

Ormiston Trust

0

Macmillan Academy, Middlesbrough

Macmillan CTC

400

St Mark’s Academy, Merton1

Diocese of Southwark/CfBT Educational Trust/Toe H

0

Madeley Academy, Telford and Wrekin

Thomas Telford On-line

0

1 £2 million sponsorship to be invested in endowment fund as opposed to towards capital costs