Nationally, University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been struggling with recruitment at 14, when children are already settled in schools elsewhere. UTCs are different: a more business-like environment, industry-focused, with the direct involvement of local partners. This would inevitably be altered by the presence of younger children. The Inspiration Academy is a unique project aiming to solve the problem: a feeder school for children aged 11-14 for The Leigh UTC, which Jestico + Whiles completed on an adjacent site in 2014. The first in the country, it allows the UTC to recruit like any other school at age 11.