Horizons Specialist Academy Trust is a multi-academy trust (MAT) that operates five special schools with academy status across northern England.
[1] It is an exempt charity, regulated by the Department for Education.
[2] The trust champions the right of students with special educational needs.
It is committed to helping to develop into: It will do this by quality, expert teaching, providing a range of teaching and non-teaching professionals who have a comprehensive skill set and flexible teaching to enable the student to successfully move on to the next learning stage and personal independence.
It was a founder member of the Northern Alliance of Trusts.