About Us
Chatsworth Schools was founded by Anita Gleave and Fred Knipe in September 2018 with a vision to enable outstanding futures for all children by creating an independent and international schools’ family on her belief in non-selective, high-quality education.
Over the past six years (which included a global pandemic), Chatsworth Schools has become a leading brand in the inclusive, non-selective sector – by inclusive we mean that we do not assess children through entrance examinations to join our schools. Instead, we welcome children through a bespoke admissions process personalised to each child. Our schools reflect our society in their diversity, their community, in their individual potential. Proudly so.
Our growth has been rapid and has seen us grow from 11 schools and nurseries in the UK and the education of over 1100 children.
A note from our CEO
My name is Fred Knipe , and I am the proud Founder, with Anita Gleave of Chatsworth Schools.
We founded Chatsworth Schools with a simple ambition; to enable an outstanding future for every child that attends a Chatsworth school regardless of their ability, background or any additional needs – physical or otherwise. Today, over six years on, Chatsworth Schools runs 11 independent schools and nurseries in the UK.
We firmly believe in the power of inclusive, non-selective education and the nurturing of each child as an individual so that they are ready to make the most of their unique talents and opportunities in a fast-changing 21st century of digital skills and a rapidly changing global economy. We further believe that we need to reimagine education to reach our goal.
Rather than factory farming our children and preparing them for an obsolete workforce – for jobs which already do not exist, we need to provide every young person with a toolkit, of soft and hard skills on which to draw, no matter what our uncertain world throws at them, or what they face in the world of work and indeed, in life. All children have an amazing imagination: we must enable them to develop it, to dare to dream, to be bold, to be ambitious, to be global citizens who contribute to society, who are kind and compassionate and who truly aspire to be the best they can be.
