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Trust Growth and Mergers: Protecting Your Culture

If your trust is growing, considering a merger, or likely to be doing either in the next year or two, this free virtual showcase is designed for you. With the 2026 Schools White Paper reinforcing the direction of travel toward strong academy trusts as families of schools, leaders across the sector are navigating decisions about expansion, transfers and mergers, often at pace and with significant uncertainty.

There is plenty of guidance on the legal and financial mechanics of growth and merger, but far less on the cultural work that determines whether a newly enlarged organisation actually functions as one.

Thursday 4th June, 1–2pm

In this free one-hour virtual showcase, we will walk through Edurio’s Growing Trusts. Protecting Culture guide and then go live in the platform to show exactly how trust leaders are using stakeholder insight to protect culture before a merger begins, during integration, and in the months that follow.

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Spaces are limited to allow for questions and discussion.

Fill in the form or email hello@edurio.com to secure your place.

What you will see in this session

In this practical session for trust leaders, we will explore:

  • Establishing a cultural baseline before a merger begins
  • Comparing values and working norms across joining schools or trusts
  • Spotting early warning signs of disengagement and cultural mismatch in the data
  • Tracking whether shared values are becoming embedded after growth
  • Bringing staff, pupil and parent voice into one coherent trust-wide picture

You will see the Edurio platform in action and understand how trust leaders are turning structured stakeholder feedback into evidence they can use throughout the due diligence and integration process.

Why attend?

Most due diligence focuses on finance, governance and legal risk, and rightly so. But cultural risk is harder to see and often determines whether a merger or expansion actually delivers what was intended. Trust leaders who treat culture as part of due diligence, rather than an afterthought, are better placed to surface tensions before they escalate, support staff through periods of uncertainty, and demonstrate to their boards that integration is progressing as planned. This session is an opportunity to see what that looks like in practice, and to ask questions of a team that has been working with growing trusts since 2017.

Who is this for?

This showcase is designed for:

  • Trust CEOs
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • HR Directors / Chief People Officers
  • Trustees