Supporting Steiner Waldorf Education in the Thames Valley
About
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 Steiner Waldorf educational activities. Hard experience has shown us that the temptation for educational organisations to run up debts leads to the loss of the premises in the future. 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 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. St Luke’s Trust is currently working hard to bring it out of Administration. See ‘Saving Bridge House’ below.
Saving Bridge House
St Luke’s Trust is currently working hard to bring ABASWE out of administration in order to save Bridge House and make the whole site available for Steiner Waldorf Education initiatives in the future.