Previously Bridge House Home School Trust.
Set up by the Mulock family when they emigrated to Canada for a day and boarding school for special needs children, based on the educational ideas of Dr Rudlof Steiner. In th e1980s the site consisted of Bridge House, a 1970s school building, and two residential buildings (St Luke’s Lodge) and Lyndale.
At that time those managing the Trust decided to move to looking after adults rather than children.
Also in the 1980s, the Reading Steiner School Project, a registered Charity, had started and was running Parent and Child groups and a Kindergarten at their premises on Christchurch Gardens in Reading. They needed a school site and the then Trustees of Bridge House Home School Trust made the 1970s school building available to the Project in order to establish a school beyond the Kindergarten years. Shortly after, Bridge House was sold to the Project for about half market value. Bridge House Home School Trust was renamed St Luke’s Trust and the Reading Steiner School Project was renamed Alder Bridge Association for Steiner Waldorf Education. The latter then ran the Parent and Child groups and Kindergarten in Reading and also the School and second Kindergarten at Alder Bridge School.