Tutor Trust Impact Report 2024/2025 - Report - Page 4
Our mission is to transform
lives through tutoring
We’re a proudly Northern charity providing small group tutoring,
with the aim of closing the attainment gap between socially
disadvantaged young people and their peers.
By providing great tutors in a growing
number of regions across the North,
where the attainment gap for socially
disadvantaged young people remains
a concern, our vision is:
• To be a part of an education system
that provides excellence, equity and
opportunity to every child and young
person in the UK.
• For all pupils to receive the support
they need to overcome any barriers
they face in achieving their full potential.
• For our tutoring model to play
a positive part in the school system
in every area of the country.
1 https://www.
thetutortrust.org/
impact/our-rctevidence
This is why we are committed to
growing our work across and beyond
the North of England.
We were founded in Manchester in
2011 with a grant from the Education
Endowment Foundation (EEF), and have
since provided tuition to almost 45,000
pupils from Years 1 to 13, across 28 Local
Authorities. We operate across Greater
Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, West
Yorkshire, Merseyside, and we also
expanded into the North East, through
our work in Tees Valley.
A history of proven
impact for young people
We’re uniquely well-placed to evidence
the e昀昀ectiveness of our approach, having
already conducted two randomised
controlled trials (RCTs) with the EEF
which resulted in highly positive 昀椀ndings.
Our 昀椀rst RCT proved that Year 6 pupils
receiving 12 hours of our tutoring made
an additional three months’ progress in
maths, with a ‘spillover e昀昀ect’ of improved
performance in reading. The most
progress was made by pupils on Free
School Meals, and those with low prior
attainment. These 昀椀ndings informed the
Department for Education’s design of the
National Tutoring Programme. A second
RCT, commissioned as part of this work,
proved that the engagement tools we have
developed help to increase attendance.1
As well as working with our education
partners to improve educational
outcomes for young people in the North,
we bring bene昀椀ts for communities too.
We create employment opportunities
for our tutors, who become role models
for the pupils they support, and
strengthen links between universities
and their local areas, while working
to close the attainment gap for socially
disadvantaged pupils.
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