Edmund Rice Schools Trust

Edmund Rice Schools Trust

Native name	Iontaobhas Scoileanna Éamainn Rís
Industry	Education
Founded	June 1802 (1802-06) in Waterford, Ireland
Founder	Edmund Rice
Headquarters	Blackrock, Dublin , Ireland
Number of locations	96 (2013)
Area served	Republic of Ireland
Key people	Gerry Bennett (CEO) Helen O'Brien Louise Callaghan Eddie Bourke
Revenue	1,668,652 Euro (2020)
Website	www.erst.ie

The Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) is a Catholic school network with responsibility for almost 100 schools in the Republic of Ireland.The trust is named after Edmund Ignatius Rice the founder of the Irish Christian Brothers who originally established and maintained the schools. Today, the Trust supports those schools in line with the tenets of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter. Similar trusts have been established in England, Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

The schools promote equality of access and participation – in other words, children of any faith, or none, at every level of ability, of any nationality or ethnic grouping are enrolled. Enrolment processes are open and flagged in advance.

In addition to the provision of high standards of excellence in teaching and learning, the schools uphold a strong sporting tradition, Gaelic culture, and ethos of social justice. Inspired by the five key elements of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter the schools are responding to a changing world and supporting the leaders of the future to work in partnership, care for the environment, look after themselves and others equally and be inspirational citizens.

The five key elements of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter are:

• Nurturing faith, Christian spirituality and Gospel-based values;
• Promoting partnership;
• Excelling in teaching and learning;
• Creating a caring school community;
• Inspiring transformational leadership.

The main object of the Trust is to ensure and foster the advancement of education and to further the aims and purposes of Catholic education in the Edmund Rice tradition in colleges, schools and other educational projects owned or operated by the Trusts in the different countries.