All Saints Educational Trust

All Saints Educational Trust is a longstanding UK charitable trust rooted in the Church Colleges movement, dedicated to promoting and strengthening specialist teaching in Religious Education (RE) and Home Economics, including food and textiles. Its core values emphasize elevating teacher quality, addressing subject shortages, fostering personal development through education, and advancing classroom practice for societal benefit. Driven by a pragmatic philosophy of targeted investment in human capital, the Trust believes lasting educational impact arises from upskilling dedicated teachers via qualifications, innovative projects, and supervised research, prioritizing sustainable professional growth, ethical practice, and alignment with an inclusive educational ethos open to Christian, multi-faith, and secular motivations.

The Trust funds teacher training and professional development for trainee RE teachers and Home Economics teachers pursuing Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), practising RE teachers and Home Economics teachers undertaking continuing professional development (CPD), further study, or postgraduate action research supervised by UK higher education institutions to enhance teaching expertise and classroom effectiveness. It supports organizational projects delivering innovative teaching methodologies, classroom resources, peer networks, and action research improving RE and Home Economics pedagogy, career progression, and subject profile. Interventions target shortages in specialist educators, skill gaps in food education, textiles, spiritual development, and ethical awareness, seeking outcomes like increased teacher numbers, refined practice, imaginative resources for pupil engagement, and networks fostering collaboration among RE and Home Economics professionals committed to holistic child development.

Exclusions encompass broader educational purposes, mainstream academic costs, or activities not directly advancing RE or Home Economics teaching quality. Distinctive for its laser focus on these niche disciplines amid general education funders, it prioritizes applicants demonstrating personal commitment to subject advancement, preference for Church of England ethos while inclusive of other faiths or none, and UK-wide support for England, Wales, and qualifying UK/EU teachers. Unique emphasis lies on individual teacher empowerment preventing professional isolation, organizational innovation in teacher support, and evidence of realistic, measurable enhancement in specialist teaching practice.