# Philip Green's Arcadia to sponsor 50 new specialist schools

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/12/philip-green039s-arcadia-sponsor-50-new-specialist-schools/
- Published: 2004-07-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Philip Green, the businessman attempting to take over Marks and Spencer, is to sponsor
50 new specialist schools in England through his high street fashion company Arcadia
Group.
Arcadia Group, working with the Specialist Schools Trust, will donate £1.25
million. This will cover half the sponsorship required by secondary schools to become
specialist business and enterprise colleges.

According to the BBC, Arcadia Group will also be providing both management expertise
and governors to the schools that it sponsors. It will also offer school pupils 
work experience placements.

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