SHARES Lancashire Ltd is the ‘not for profit’ company set up by the Skelmersdale and Upholland Primary Schools to provide a wide range of support services to schools at a time when other, statutory support is diminishing. The company also aims to enhance the opportunities open to the pupils of the Primary Schools and their wider families with the overall objective of ‘Raising Educational Standards’ across the locality. The company was set up to meet the common aims and objectives of the Head teachers cluster group from which it has emerged. The local Primary Schools have a history of working collaboratively and through this have been able to enhance their schools through the sharing of good practice, pooling resources and working together to achieve success.