History
Grafham Grange Special Educational Trust was founded in 1994 to facilitate the transfer of Grafham Grange School from local authority control to non-maintained status. This was a unique achievement, without precedent in law, which required a special Act of Parliament.
In 2001 the Trust was asked to consider expanding, to enable the transfer of Brantridge School into the non-maintained sector. This transfer was approved by the Secretary of State for Education in December 2002, and Brantridge School became part of Grafham Grange Special Educational Trust from 1st January 2003.
The Trust is a registered charitable company, limited by guarantee, and currently employs in the region of 120 staff. Combined with our dedicated volunteers, Directors, Governors, independent visitors and other supporters, the community stands at around 150.
The Trust, overseen by a Board of Directors, is currently responsible for the two non-maintained residential special schools for boys and young men with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD).
The schools Brantridge for boys aged 6 to 13 years and Grafham Grange for boys aged 10 to 17 years - are respected and successful establishments providing specialist, very high quality education, care and therapeutic intervention.
They each provide an important specialist resource for local authorities throughout London and the South East. Both schools have an impressive and infectious atmosphere of optimism, professional dedication and commitment to high quality care, education and support for their pupils, and their successes are recognised within the schools' most recent inspection reports.