Edmund Rice Schools Trust

Edmund Rice Schools Trust
Native name
Iontaobhas Scoileanna Éamainn Rís
IndustryEducation
FoundedJune 1802; 222 years ago (1802-06) in Waterford, Ireland
FounderEdmund Rice
HeadquartersBlackrock,
Dublin
,
Ireland
Number of locations
96 (2013)
Area served
Republic of Ireland
Key people
  • Gerry Bennett (CEO)
  • Helen O'Brien
  • Louise Callaghan
  • Eddie Bourke
Revenue1,668,652 Euro (2020) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.erst.ie

The Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) is a Catholic school network with responsibility for almost 100 schools in the Republic of Ireland.[1] 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.[2] Similar trusts have been established in England,[3] Northern Ireland[4] and elsewhere.

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.

  1. ^ "Edmund Rice Schools Trust". Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. ^ (ERST.ie), Edmund Rice Schools Trust. "What We Do".
  3. ^ "Edmund Rice England". Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. ^ "erstni". Retrieved 13 September 2018.