Philanthropists ensure Now Teach can recruit for 2025

In April we shared the surprise news that the previous government had decided not to reprocure the Career Change Programme that Now Teach delivers.

This was an effective cut to our budget and meant we did not have the resources to inspire, recruit and support more experienced professionals to become teachers in 2025.

However, following a successful fundraising campaign, our Board of Trustees has agreed on a plan to move ahead with recruiting a new cohort of 250 teachers to start training in September 2025.

They will then be supported by Now Teach through their first years in teaching.

We plan to make some changes to increase efficiencies, but will still have the ability to develop our work and grow sustainably in future.

The short-term bridging funding we have received has given the Board confidence that we can work through what is a very uncertain period and keep up the momentum we have created.

We still believe that it is important that our work is supported by the Department for Education and will continue to press this case with the new government.

However, the philanthropic commitments we have received means that we can now seek to build a more sustainable future funding model, developing and testing the potential for earned income approaches alongside our fundraising work.

That we can now move ahead is entirely down to the generosity of donors and the vocal support from people such as yourselves who stood up when we most needed it. On behalf of the young people that our future recruits will teach, we thank them all once again.