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Goldman Sachs 10KSB Biggest Growth Story Award (2025)
Kevin Davis was awarded the Biggest Growth Story Award at the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) UK 15th Anniversary event at Tate Modern.
Voted by his fellow alumni, this award recognises his leadership in driving growth across education, skills, and community regeneration.
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) UK programme is a world-class business growth initiative designed to help entrepreneurs scale their enterprises, drive economic impact, and create jobs. Delivered in partnership with leading academic institutions, it provides high-quality education, mentorship, and networking opportunities to ambitious business leaders across the UK.
Kevin joined the 10KSB Growth Programme in 2011 at a pivotal moment, having just set up his first school while transitioning into mainstream education and raising £3M to build a new facility. While he initially saw the programme as a way to access funding, he instead gained a strategic growth plan that has shaped his journey over the last 14 years.
Since then, Kevin has played a key role in initiatives such as Vine Trust, Ladder Foundation, J10, Goldmine Studio, Ladder School, and The Mercian Trust, all of which have contributed to expanding opportunities in education, skills, and employment.
This award is a testament to the power of collaboration and shared success, demonstrating that meaningful growth happens when people, businesses, and communities work together.
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Our CEO KEVIN DAVIS, has been appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands. 🙌 (April 2024)
Mr Kevin Davis DL will be supporting the Lord-Lieutenant (His Majesty The King’s personal representative in the West Midlands) – in several ways including accompanying members of the royal family during official visits to the region, representation at citizenship ceremonies, supporting the armed forces of the Crown, encouraging charitable and voluntary work and other local initiatives that benefit the community.. click here for more
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The Vine Trust, and its Mercian Trust partner, the Queen Mary's Foundation are pleased to announce that the Regional Schools Commissioner has approved the proposal for a merger between the Q3 Academies Trust and the Mercian Trust.
November 2021
RSC staff have worked with staff from both trusts this term and confirmed that the skills, knowledge and capacity are in place to complete the merger, and that both trusts will be in a stronger position as a result of the merger.
We anticipate that the merger to be called the Mercian Trust, will be formally completed within this current academic year. The merger will not affect school uniforms or school names. We can also confirm that school start and finish times will remain the same.
Mercian and Q3 schools have begun working more closely together this year to provide quality assurance and school to school support, and we are already seeing the positive impact of this.
We truly believe that students and staff will benefit from being part of a larger family of schools, and we are committed to working together to increase opportunities and improve outcomes for students in our area
May 2022 update: Merger complete! click here for update
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CEO Award for Diversity & Inclusion Leadership
September 2021
Our CEO Kevin Davis was recognised for his 'Leadership in Diversity & Inclusion' work at the West Midlands' Leadership Awards. Click here for more info
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L to R, High Sheriff Chris Loughran, CEO Kevin Davis, and Gemma Davis
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High Sheriff Award for our 'great and valuable services to the community'
5th March 2019
Our CEO Kevin Davis, joined dignitaries from across the region to celebrate individual for have inspired others.
In the historic setting of St Martin’s in the Bullring, Chris Loughran, High Sheriff of the West Midlands hosted a dinner, to celebrate the contributions, individuals and their respective organisations have made to the region.
In this the 30th Year of the Vine Trust, the award came as a complete surprise to Kevin, who attended on the premise, he was promoting the Trust’s, ‘Ladder for Greater Birmingham Apprenticeship initiative’.
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L to R, Vine CEO Kevin Davis, Birmingham Mail Editor Anna Jeys, High Sheriff Chris Loughran and PTP's Rob Colbourne.
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New awards will celebrate Greater Birmingham's Apprentices
BirminghamLive and the Ladder for Greater Birmingham have partnered up to celebrate the rising stars of tomorrow with the launch of a new apprenticeship awards.
The Ladder for Birmingham Apprenticeship Awards 2019 will recognise apprentices, their employers and educational institutions across 12 different categories including crowning our overall Apprentice of the Year.
Save the date 4th July 2019- Edgebaston Cricket Stadium
To read more click here
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Our Ladder Foundation Launched in Parliament
The Ladder ‘Apprenticeship’ Foundation was launched in the grand settings of the Pitt Committee Room at The Houses of Parliament. The event gathered representatives from parliament, commerce, regional government, charity and HRH the Duke of York's office.
Building on the foundation of the previous regional newpaper campaigns, the initiative, will focus on social mobility, providing a 'step up' in edducation, employment and life.
Click here for more pictures of the day
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Standard's Ladder for London campaign inspires nationwide apprenticeships scheme
DAVID COHEN
Award-winning Evening Standard campaign Ladder for London, which created more than 1,500 apprenticeships, has inspired an initiative that is to go nationwide.
Ladder for England was launched yesterday in the House of Commons by Robert Halfon MP, chairman of the Education Select Committee.
It will be run by the Ladder Apprenticeship Foundation with the aim of fostering apprenticeship campaigns in regional newspapers to inspire the creation of 10,000 new jobs and address issues of social mobility.
The nationwide Ladder will be jointly led by Kevin Davis, CEO of The Vine Trust Walsall, and Eddie Stride, CEO of TransformUK.....Click Here for more
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Ladder for Greater Birmingham launched at LEP conference
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Studio School pioneers new T-Levels
Express and Star.com May 27 2018
The T-levels, which are technical qualifications at A-level standard, will be taught at Dudley College of Technology, Sandwell Academy, Walsall College and Walsall Studio School.
They are among just 10 further education providers across the Midlands chosen to taken part in the scheme which was part of Prime Minister Theresa May's general election manifesto.
Across the country, 52 schools and colleges have been named as the first T-level providers. The first three subjects will be construction, digital, and education and childcare, which will be taught from September 2020........Click here for more
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Expressandstar.com-4 Dec 2017
That will also coincide with the formal launch of The Mercian Trust which will oversee six schools in the borough – Queen Mary's Grammar School, Queen Mary's High School, Walsall Studio School, Aldridge School, Shire Oak Academy and now The Ladder School. The development comes on the back of .....Click here for more.....
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Ladder apprentice campaign rolls out over country
Expressandstar.com-26 Aug 2017
Responding to the challenge, the Express & Star teamed up with training provider Performance Through People (PTP), charity the Vine Trust, the Black ... Mr Davis is also chairman of the vocational Walsall Studio School which, with the Mercian Trust, will be launching the first Ladder School next year .
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