Case Study: The Sutton Trust achieves rapid digital transformation of summer schools for 6,000 students with Filtered

How Filtered and the Sutton Trust digitally transformed the summer school for 6000 students

The Sutton Trust, a charity that runs immersive programmes for students from low‑ to middle‑income backgrounds, faced cancelling its face‑to‑face summer schools in early 2020 because of COVID‑19. To maintain personalised guidance and academic support at scale, The Sutton Trust partnered with Filtered to create a digital alternative, Sutton Trust Online.

Filtered delivered an accessible, algorithmically personalised online platform in an eight‑week agile sprint, adding social learning features and iterative improvements driven by student activity. The solution scaled from a 500‑student pilot to virtual summer schools for over 6,000 students, recorded 20,000 episodes completed, enabled 14,000+ messages, supported 2,000+ personal statements, and saw 92% of content rated relevant—showing clear, measurable impact from Filtered’s work.

The Sutton Trust

Binda Patel

Head of Innovation