St Luke’s Trust – Supporting Steiner Waldorf Education in the Thames Valley
Invitation for proposed future use of Mill Lane School Building – see below
About St Luke’s Trust
St Luke’s Trust is based in Reading and Padworth, West Berkshire.
Purpose
St Luke’s Trust aims to provide premises in a financially secure way to for other organisations or individuals to run educational activities as much as possible in line with Steiner Waldorf ideas. We do not run the educational or other activities directly ourselves, but seek to provide a supportive home for them.
Current activities
Rose Garden Early Years Centre Ltd CIC
Rose Garden Early Years Centre Ltd is a fully owned subsidiary of St Luke’s Trust. Rose Garden is managed by Gemma Coleman who has an accountancy background, school administration experience and is a trained Steiner Waldorf Kindergarten Teacher.
Alder Bridge School
Since it opened at the Padworth site, Alder Bridge Association for Steiner Waldorf Education (ABASWE) has rented the school building for Alder Bridge School from St Luke’s Trust. Sadly ABASWE was put into administration in November 2022 even though the shortfall in cash was only about 10% of the assets; Association members were given no information about this possibility by the then Trustees and the Trustees did not engage with the Trustees of St Luke’s Trust when they offered to work with them to avoid going into Administration. Bridge House has now been sold and ABASWE is out of Administration but is still inactive. The school building is now available for others to use.
Invitation for proposed future use of Mill Lane School Building
St Luke’s Trust (Berkshire) a registered charity (No. 309076) is inviting individuals or organisations to undertake educational initiatives which can help meet the needs of local families and children at the Mill Lane School Building, Mill Lane, Padworth, Reading RG7 4JU
Use of the school building may include access and use of an adjacent 6 acres of Woodland. The site, including the Woodland, were formally occupied by Alder Bridge Steiner-Waldorf School from 1993 to 2022.
Initial expressions of interest are required to be received by email no later than 31st May 2026. See below.
Site visits can be arranged on request following receipt of initial expression of interest.
You should set out, in outline, the proposal including what need is being met, how this need is to be met, high level source of income, timescales for launch and any other key requirements for success.
The directors of the charity will review all expressions of interest. Following this review, applicants may be invited to submit detailed business plans with contents as set out in a statement of requirements that will be published later.
Mr Marcus Webb & Dr Stuart Brown
Directors of St Luke’s Trust (Berkshire)
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