Our Team

Some of these same young people are now senior staff and one is the Chair of Trustees. We are proud to have a team that takes seriously the mantra: It takes a village to raise a child.

Our staff team is made up of teachers, youth workers, foster carers, headteachers, musicians, TV producers, bookkeepers and community workers. We all share the same deep belief in the power of young people and the fact that education should be a joy for young people, not an endurance test.

Our original pioneers, who created the school were working class young people, between the ages of 17-25, with powerful, recent lived experience of local comprehensive education. They knew what it meant to be on free school meals; to emerge bruised from the social care system, to lack role models they could relate to, to be neuro-diverse and what it meant to receive poor advice about further education or training prospects. Being able to draw upon these experiences means Rekindle has been built, from the planning stages onward, by young people with an awareness of the actual needs and desires of the very youth the school now serves.