Could Your School Be One Of Our Partners?
Each year, the Longford Trust works with one secondary school, usually from within the M25 radius, engaging its older pupils in the subject of prison reform (as above, with pupils from Sacred Heart High School meeting Baroness Hale, our 2005 Lecturer). After an initial visit to the school in spring by a Longford Trust patron, the office team and Longford Scholars, the pupils design the promotional materials for that year’s Longford Lecture, attend the event where they help out with ushering, and meet the speaker to discuss issues raised in the lecture.
Holland Park School, Notting Hill
Our Schools’ Partner in 2025 was Holland Park School in Notting Hill, a high-achieving, non-selective comprehensive of around 1,300 students in west London. In the summer term of 2025, our Employability Manager Roxanne and director Peter Stanford went to Holland Park to discuss prison reform with sixth formers and Year 10s. The pupils then designed promotion material for the 2025 Longford Lecture, with 21 students attending. Our thanks to Executive Principal Dame Sally Coates and Head of Careers & Employability Robert McCarthy.
How to Apply
If you interested in becoming a partner school – like Vyners School in 2023 with Jon Snow (right) – with the Longford Trust, all you need to do is write to us at PO Box 72887, London N2 2FG, or email office@longfordtrust.org before June 1 and tell us why you want to work with us.
Longford Trust Partner Schools
- 2025 Holland Park School, Notting Hill
- 2024 Totteridge Academy, Barnet
- 2023 Vyners School, Ickenham
- 2022 Woodhouse Sixth Form College, Finchley
- 2021/2020 – no school partner because of Covid restrictions
- 2019 Clapton Girls Academy, east London.
- 2018 Highgate Wood School, north London.
- 2017 Ruislip High School, Middlesex.
- 2016 Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith.
- 2015 St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School, Finchley.
- 2014 Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, west London.