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Expert advice for expanding your school, academy or MAT

If your school has already converted to an academy, you may now be considering expansion as the next step forward.

Our experience in a variety of expansion initiatives

Wrigleys have experience of advising schools across many expansion initiatives, such as:

  • Single to multi academy model conversions;

  • New Schools, federations and 'all-through';

  • Academy mergers;

  • Collaborations & partnerships;

  • Building projects;

  • Trading companies; and

  • Teaching schools.

For further information, please feel free to contact us.

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