United Church Schools Trust

The United Church Schools Trust (UCST) is a large education charity in the United Kingdom which owns and operates a group of 14 private schools.

UCST was founded in 1883 (as the ‘Church Schools Company’) to extend the reach of academic education in Victorian England and to educate young women based on Christian (and particularly Anglican) principles.

In 2002, it established the United Learning Trust (now United Learning) as a fully owned subsidiary to extend UCST’s work and ethos into the state sector through the Academies Programme.

UCST's subsidiary charity the United Learning Trust[3] operates 90 academies and one City Technology College.

[4] In 2012 ULT and UCST rebranded to operate under one name, United Learning.