Calderdale academies successful in securing funding from £434m pot

The Government’s Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for 2020-21 will pay for 1,476 projects at 1,243 academies, sixth form colleges and non-diocesan voluntary aided schools.

Property consultant Eddisons, which has secured £30m to improve buildings at 24 Yorkshire academies, said these include more than £1 million earmarked for the second phase of a major roof refurbishment at Rastrick High School.

Other Calderdale schools which will benefit from the scheme include North Halifax Grammar School, which will get money to fund electrical safety and statutory compliance works, St John’s Primary School at Rishworth, which will get funding to replace the boiler and heating system, Dean Field Community Primary School at Ovdenden, Halifax, will receive money to renew defective roofs and St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Academy at Todmorden will receive funding to partially replace its heating system.

The Government’s outcome list does not include the amounts for each project.

Rastrick High School academy’s headteacher Steve Evans welcomed the news and said improving the school’s infrastructure had an impact on teaching.

He thanked Eddisons for their supporting role in the bidding, helping secure the funds, for the scheme to replace flat roofs.

“We are delighted to have received the funding for the second phase of the school roof renovation programme.

“The quality of the school’s building infrastructure plays an important part in our ability to deliver an excellent experience for all our current students and our students of the future.

“We have a positive long-standing relationship with Eddisons which has supported successful bids in the past two years,” he said.