A new kind of academy for sixteen-to-nineteen-year-olds in Gloucestershire — where industry-recognised trade qualifications, real commercial skills, and the financial education the system never taught us are built into one curriculum.
The Legacy Academy is a sixteen-to-nineteen alternative education provider built for young people who didn't fit the mainstream — and shouldn't have had to.
We believe the country's broken pipeline of skilled tradespeople, founders, and asset-builders begins where school stops working. So we built a curriculum around three pillars: industry-recognised trade qualifications, the commercial skills to run a business, and the financial education that turns earnings into legacy.
Our learners leave with a Gold-Card-track qualification, the literacy to quote, price and tender real work, and the discipline to build wealth that lasts beyond a single generation.
Industry-recognised qualifications on a regulated apprenticeship pathway. The first track is electrical engineering — a Level 3 route toward AM2S, BS 7671 18th Edition, and the JIB Gold Card. Real qualifications. Real careers.
The skills nobody teaches the trades. Quoting and pricing jobs, reading a contract, managing cash flow, tendering for commercial work, hiring a first apprentice. We train tradespeople to become firm-builders from day one.
The financial literacy the curriculum forgot. Property, investment vehicles, ownership structures, tax efficiency — taught honestly and early. Our learners don't just earn well, they build assets that outlive them.
A regulated Level 3 trade qualification built on three pillars: industry-recognised skills, commercial fluency, and generational wealth education.
Direct entry into trade with our employer partners — or progression into MDSS (Matalegion Defence & Support Services), our sister organisation's adult workforce and defence-adjacent training arm.
A skilled tradesperson with the commercial literacy of a founder and the financial discipline to build assets that outlive a single generation.
A note on the pipeline The Legacy Academy and MDSS together form an integrated route under Matalegion UK Ltd — designed to compress the path from school to skilled, employed, asset-building adulthood. A dedicated MDSS site is forthcoming.
Britain has a record number of young people who are not in education, employment, or training — and a record shortage of skilled trades. The two facts are the same fact.
16–24 year-olds in the UK are currently not in education, employment, or training.
Median earnings for a qualified electrician in the UK — without a university degree.
The proportion of UK secondary curriculums that include personal finance as a graded subject.
We chose Brockworth because the employer base lives next door. Gloucester Business Park sits within minutes of our site, and its tenant list reads like a curriculum partner roster — defence primes, civil engineering firms, energy infrastructure, logistics, and aerospace.
For a learner training in a regulated trade, that proximity is the difference between a classroom qualification and a working career. We are not building near our employer base. We are building inside it.
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