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Welcome from our Co-Founder, Abigail
It’s been a year of change at Tutor Trust, with
the appointment of Ed Marsh as our CEO in
February 2023 marking an exciting new chapter
in our story.
Ed joined us with a wealth of experience
in the higher education sector and with
an evident passion for our mission of
transforming lives through tutoring.
He has brought with him a strategic
mindset, a strong commitment to equity,
and a people-focused approach. It’s been
a joy to welcome Ed, and, in the Afterword,
you’ll 昀椀nd Ed’s own impressions after his
昀椀rst (almost) year with us!
Of course, it was a bittersweet moment too,
as it followed shortly after the departure of
our co-founder and former CEO, Nick Bent.
Nick and I came up with the idea for Tutor
Trust together and led it in partnership for
a decade, and his leadership was crucial in
establishing Tutor Trust as a unique, best-inclass charity delivering high quality tutoring
to those young people who would otherwise
miss out. I thank Nick for his continued
friendship, am delighted to see the fantastic
work he is now doing as CEO of the social
mobility charity upReach, and know he is
glad that Tutor Trust is continuing to thrive.
2022/23 has certainly been a challenging
year for schools: the cost-of-living crisis
has put intense pressure on budgets at
just the time when pupils and their families
are needing schools to do the most. With
many schools, particularly those serving
lower-income communities, supporting
families with uniform, supplies and food,
the squeeze on budgets is ever tighter.
In such a context, it’s not surprising that
schools’ ability to invest in tutoring has
fallen, with initial data indicating that, in
England, course starts under the NTP may
have dropped by as much as half in 2022/23
compared with the previous year.
We’re proud that our strong reputation
and our focus on quality and impact has
enabled us to signi昀椀cantly outperform
the wider tutoring sector. In 2022/2023, we
supported almost as many young people –
6,480 – as in 2021/22 and delivered more
tutoring programmes – 7,627 – than in any
previous year. With NTP funding having
dropped to 60%, this represented a greater
investment from schools in us than in
the previous year, and we are proud that,
at such a challenging time, schools have
chosen to prioritise our partnership. In
order to keep our tutoring as a昀昀ordable as
possible for our partners in 2023/24, we’ve
cut our headline price-per-hour by 20%.
This will absorb the decrease in the NTP
subsidy from 60% to 50%, meaning that the
contribution required from school budgets
is identical to that in 2022/23.
As a leader in the tutoring space, we’re
working with our partners in the sector to
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