Find out here about the ways you can support us, as a school, education-related organisation, business, funder and individual to achieve our mission of developing leaders for challenging schools to enable every child to succeed.

Nominate a candidate

To help achieve our mission, we need to find people with the potential to lead some of our most challenging schools to become Future Leaders. If you know of somebody who would make an excellent Future Leader (see the How to Apply section for a list of qualities we look for), then let us know by nominating them online and encouraging them to apply. Often the leaders we look for may not want to put themselves forward and may not be thinking of headship just now as the way to fulfil their desire to help pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, but with a bit of encouragement and support from us they could find themselves doing just that.

Consider appointing a Future Leader to your school as a senior leader

If you are a governor or school leader in a challenging area, we would urge you to strongly consider interviewing a Future Leader onto your senior leadership team. Without the experience and insights gained from working in your school insufficient numbers will gain what's needed to go on and successfully lead challenging schools as the current generation of school leaders retire, leaving all schools with significant succession challenges. All Future Leaders are carefully selected, and intensively trained, and all have the potential to make a significant positive difference to schools in challenging areas, whilst providing them with a potential additional internal succession candidate when the current head retires. If you want to talk more about your recruitment needs and are a challenging school looking to appoint a senior leader, call the Head of School Networks on 020 7395 2090.

Support Future Leaders financially

As a charitable organisation, Future Leaders receives funding from a number of sources. Launch costs and financial support for participants in their first residency training year are provided from public sources, with funding for the administration, marketing, and training activities funded through private fundraising. If you want to make the biggest strategic difference in education, particularly among disadvantaged communities, why not consider supporting us as a charity through a grant? You will be joining the ranks of some of the most savvy and strategic Foundations and corporate donors in the country. There are many ways to sponsor Future Leaders financially, and we would be happy to discuss your needs as a grantmaker and social investor. If you are interested in exploring sponsoring Future Leaders contact the Head of Communications on 020 7395 2090.