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How we came to be
In August 2005, at the behest of the DfES, a not for profit education charitable trust called TheCademy was formed to disseminate the highly successful Notschool.net model and apply aspects of this model to inclusion practice. The core staff who had run the successful research project from 2000 to 2005 transferred to TheCademy. In January 2007, in light of some confusion with the UK Government’s national Academy Programme, we re-branded as Inclusion Trust.This more accurately portrays our aims; namely a broad agenda aimed at tackling social inclusion at all levels. Notschool.net therefore now runs out of the Inclusion Trust and is its flagship project.
Notschool.net was originally a research project run out of a UK university research department. In 2000 a core team within the university department, who has considerable expertise in developing online learning communities, was commissioned by the DfES to run the Notschool.net pilot.
In 2001 the DfES extended the pilot Notschool.net project to cover a number of local authorities throughout the country. During the early 2000's Notschool.net continued to expand to cover over 20 local authorities and a successful model for engaging disaffected teenagers was developed It was this success that persuaded the DfES that Notschool.net and its successful inclusion model should be novated from a university research project to an inclusion charity, hence the Inclusion Trust was born.
