Christopher Nieper Education Trust is a small, growing, dynamic and ambitious Trust rooted in our local communities. Our Vision is to develop leaders and achievers of the future, giving pupils the winning combination of a first-class academic education and life skills for future employability with excellent pastoral care. We know the challenges and we know that with care, determination, enthusiasm and working together we can support and overcome these.

The Trust was formed in 2016 with a single school, David Nieper Academy Alfreton 11-19. We were delighted that Stonebroom Primary & Nursery School chose to become the second school and first primary school to join CNET. Stonebroom has been a pivotal part of our Trust development team, creating the path for future Trust growth and development. We are very much looking forward to the continued growth of the Trust as additional local schools seek to join us. We are delighted that the Governors of Shirland Primary School have applied to join the trust, which we hope will happen in the very near future.

Christopher Nieper, our Chair of Trustees has commented, ‘living in Derbyshire is a privilege. My family business, David Nieper Ltd, has thrived here for six decades. We have 300 brilliant staff and have always developed local talent here in Alfreton, a former coal mining town. Local talent can equally be developed in every town in our country when we give young people a chance.

I founded our education Trust so that our company, and companies like ours, could become involved in schools, especially in areas like Alfreton. I believe talent isn’t a postcode lottery, there is talent everywhere in Britain waiting to be unlocked.

Essential life skills are often missing from schools, but they help young people go further and faster, earning more in their career with self-esteem and social mobility. We endeavour to instil these in a natural and fun way with our unique employability skills program which runs throughout the curriculum.

It’s our aim that young people will leave our school with the powerful combination of a first-class academic education, relevant careers guidance and employability skills to give them every chance of becoming Britain’s leaders and achievers of the future.’

If you like the sound of our new, growing and ambitious Trust we will be delighted to hear from you.