School trusts are increasingly thinking about how to embed themselves as anchor institutions at the heart of the communities they serve. With so many different priorities to balance, how can leaders get started on thinking and doing bigger within their communities?

Here Tiffany Beck OBE, Head of Education at PLMR, and Steve Rollett, Deputy Chief Executive of Confederation of School Trusts, speak to Nick Osborne, Chief Executive of Maritime Academy Trust, about using a ‘Year Zero’ to get your strategy off the ground and explore Maritime’s approach to community anchoring.