Project
The Hackney Pirates
Funding
The charity's annual income is now about £270,000 from a mixture of grants, fundraising and contributions from schools
Background
As a teacher in North London, Catriona Maclay was frustrated by the fact that however hard teachers worked, there were pupils who needed more time and attention than the school day allowed.
She left teaching in 2008 and went on to develop a new approach to working with children struggling at school in the London Borough of Hackney. "I felt there were so many children who would benefit from extra support and the community had all sorts of untapped resources," she says.
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