Charity group wins “oscar” on its birthday

AN education charity co-founded by former Warrington South Parliamentary candidate Nick Bent has won a major national award at Britain’s “charity Oscars.”
The Tutor Trust won the “best new charity” award at a ceremony in London on its fifth birthday.
Mr Bent – now a parish councillor at Stockton Heath – and co-founder Abigail Shapiro were present at the ceremony.
Founded in Manchester, the Tutuor Trust became a charity in September 2011.
It now also serves the Leeds area and has plans to expand its service across the whole of the North of England.
The charity exists to democratise academic tuition in Britain through aninnovative delivery model – it recruits and trains high calibre university students and places them in inner-city schools, where they work alongside busy teachers to tutor pupils in English, Maths and Science.
They are not volunteers – they are paid for their work, and Tutor Trust insures and DBS-checks every tutor.
Mr Bent said: “It’s a rare privilege to be able to turn your ideas into reality, especially when the motivation is to give Britain a fairer future.  To be recognised as the ‘best new charity’ in Britain is a huge boost to our work across the North of England and a well-deserved accolade for our whole team.
“Our idea has huge national potential and in the next five years we want to take Tutor Trust into five new cities and also support our tutors into digital skills tuition, modern foreign languages and transition work, as well as boosting our work with looked after children.”