2Simple has been making powerful, creative educational software for primary and secondary schools for over 20 years. Our resources include:
Our software is used by 11,000 schools globally, from EYFS through to KS4. Designed by teachers, for teachers.
Ambition Institute is a national education charity tackling educational disadvantage through evidence-based professional development for teachers and school leaders.
That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.
AQA Education
Since 1903, we’ve been rewarding achievement by designing and delivering fair and inclusive assessment. We do this because quality assessment is an essential ingredient for a good education. We set and mark the papers for around half of all GCSEs and A-levels, but we’re more than an exam board. As an independent education charity we reinvest all of our income. From funding cutting-edge research, to supporting new insights that help raise the bar in assessment practice internationally, we’re always focused on fair and inclusive assessment and the positive impact it has on teaching, learning and society.
Arbor helps schools of all sizes work more easily and collaboratively, with intuitive tools designed to make a difference.
Arbor MIS gives schools the tools they need to work better today and be ready for tomorrow. Used by over 5,000 schools and 450 trusts across the country, it’s the UK’s most popular MIS.
See the bigger picture with the only true MIS for MATs. More than just a dashboard, Arbor MIS for MATs is custom-built for better collaboration across
ASDAN is an education charity and awarding organisation providing courses, accredited curriculum programmes and regulated qualifications, helping young people achieve meaningful learning outcomes, elevating them to progress to further education, training or work, and empowering them to take control of their lives.
Barker is one of the country’s leading education property consultants.
We assist school trusts to deliver the best education outcomes through the four areas of effective estate management:
We understand that effective curriculum delivery requires high quality learning environments, and an efficient estate frees up finances that can be deployed to front line services.
With our extensive education experience, and accreditations from RIBA and RICS, Barker can offer you the full breadth of property consultancy that aligns to your vision and strategy.
To find out more visit www.barker-associates.co.uk or call 01279 647111
We’re Browne Jacobson. The law firm working to make a difference across business and society.
Social and environmental impact are at the top of the business agenda. We’ve always worked across business and society, and this expertise sets us apart. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how we improve outcomes for every person, community and business we serve.
We’re working towards social mobility, diversity and inclusion in our firm and our profession. And we’re focusing on well-being and individuality so that all our people can thrive.
A core part of our business is also focused on green IT solutions. At our facility in Billingshurst, we re-manufacture a wide range of telephony and IT hardware. Where appropriate, we look to incorporate this with our new solutions through the buyback of legacy hardware that we displace and using our re-manufactured equipment to demonstrate further cost saving and championing of the circular economy. We run a localised tree planting scheme as part of our carbon offsetting program.
Compass Education is here to make the school day more productive, more impactful and more enjoyable.
Our all-in-one MIS streamlines school administration, freeing up time to create inspiring learning experiences and engage your school community.
Proudly serving 3,000+ schools globally, Compass ensures everyone in the school community has the right tools to help learning thrive.
Established in 2007, Constellia is a leading Neutral Vendor Managed Service Provider in the UK. We manage over £200 million of spend across 150+ public sector organisations, including Multi-Academy Trusts, state schools, universities, and further education institutions.
Our dynamic marketplace houses 1,800+ pre-approved suppliers, granting educational institutions access to 400+ subcategories of spend. Whether you seek construction, technology services, FM, catering, professional services, or temporary teaching staff, our marketplace swiftly connects you with the right suppliers.
We provide public sector clients the flexibility and choice to buy through one simple route quickly and compliantly, helping drive efficiencies and savings.
Coram Life Education (CLE) is the leading charity provider of relationships, health, wellbeing, and drugs education to children across the UK. CLE & SCARF offers a whole-school approach to wellbeing and Mental Health. Our PSHE education supports over
50,000 teachers and reaches over 600,000 pupils every year.
Our service includes SCARF, a comprehensive, fully resourced, progressive PSHE scheme of work for 3-11 year olds, high-quality, educator-led workshops for pupils and a host of free and low-cost
staff training, supporting schools with a Whole-school approach to wellbeing. Our vision is for all children to acquire the life skills needed to thrive.
Education Mutual provides a proven innovative way to manage staff absence protection for schools and trusts.
As a member-owned DFE-recommended provider, we run solely for the benefit of members rather than shareholders.
The board of EM are school business leaders and head teachers like yourselves who want the best for their budget, together with the flexibility of a commercial provider.
Unlike commercial insurers, Education Mutual has low running costs and re-invests all surplus funds back into schools and not shareholders’ pockets.
All Education Mutual member schools also benefit from a range of comprehensive health and wellbeing services run in conjunction with our staff absence protection to support your schools’ staff and help reduce and prevent absences.
Edurio is a leading provider of stakeholder feedback solutions to schools and trusts. It works with over 150 trusts as well as 2,000 schools across the UK and internationally.
Edurio has developed an advanced survey management and data visualisation platform for schools and multi-academy trusts as well as a research-based survey library. It covers topics such as staff retention, parental engagement as well as teaching and learning. The team designs surveys in partnership with academic experts and practitioners to address school management priorities and inspection requirements.
Edurio publishes research, case studies and practical guidance on evidence-driven school improvement.
Software, support and consultancy for education Empower your school or trust to become more efficient and successful with the help of our education services. We will support your daily operations and critical decision-making, while minimising risk through improved decision-making and compliance.
Etio, the new name for Tribal Education Services (incorporating i-graduate and Class Measures). We review, evaluate, benchmark and support education services in institutions all over the world. We have the expertise, experience and energy that drives progress and elevates the quality of education for thousands of children young people and learners.
We started with the Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review, which gave us the Model for Great Teaching - our curriculum for teacher learning.
With this curriculum in place, we went on to develop the Great Teaching Toolkit.
The Great Teaching Toolkit helps teachers to:
• Set specific goals for improving their classroom, where everyone’s voice is heard.
• Build understanding in areas that make the most difference.
• Develop skills through modelling, instruction, safe rehearsal and feedback.
• Embed habits with development cycles of deliberate practice, feedback and reflection.
We aim to improve education at scale, in a way that is authentic, sustainable and replicable.
FFT is a non-profit organisation backed by the Fischer Family Foundation, a registered charity that supports a range of UK-based education and health projects. Supplying education data to schools, trusts and local authorities for over 20 years.
FFT Aspire provides a unique 360-degree analytics package for over 300 multi-academy trusts — a full ‘helicopter view’ of your trust and schools, allowing you to track performance and attendance, identify early intervention needs and share best practice around your schools.
Since Ginger Energy was established in 2013, we have become one of the industry’s most respected energy procurement consultancies.
Specialising in the education sector, we have helped our trust clients navigate the complex energy market to ensure they achieve best fit, best value contracts directly suited to the needs of their estate.
At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and organisations to succeed. With over 50 years of success under our belts, we’ve evolved to put our customers at the heart of everything we do. So much more than a specialist recruitment business, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers.
At IMP Software, our mission is to support smarter school trust finance.
We’re trusted by professionals across the country to provide the only budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software designed specifically for multi-academy trusts.
Combining the best bits of Excel with beautiful cloud-based software, our team of experts and ex-school trust professionals have spent years creating intuitive, integrated tools to help trusts master their budgets.
Rapidly becoming recognised as the genuine alternative to old accounting systems, iplicit for Education has a modern, user-friendly interface that will resonate with busy finance teams and senior leaders. As you grow, iplicit empowers you to add schools quickly and efficiently. Named ‘MAT-Tech Company of the Year’ at the 2024 National MAT Awards, iplicit for Education has been specifically tailored to provide a compelling alternative to the legacy systems that many schools and trusts currently use. This means delivering all the expected functionality, but mixing that with best-in-class technology, time-saving automation, intuitive user experience and unlimited integration possibilities.
Better technology for smarter schools
We help good schools become great. Our range of cloud-based solutions connects people with data, helping you make better decisions and deliver smarter outcomes for pupils.
For over 12,000 schools and more than 75% of trusts in the UK, our next-generation software is the catalyst for real change. From parent engagement solutions to finance and school management systems, all our products talk to each other and update data in real time, meaning information is updated across all systems, instantly.
Our solutions:
IXL is an end-to-end teaching and learning solution that includes:
● A comprehensive Reception - Year 13 curriculum and personalised guidance.
● Instructional resources and classroom engagement tools;
● An adaptive diagnostic assessment that provides every learner with a personalised action plan.
● Actionable analytics for your Trust, schools, classrooms, and individual learners.
● Additionally, we offer Trust partnership, professional learning, and implementation
services.
All integrated into a single platform, each component is designed to work together seamlessly to give educators the tools and insights they need to maximise learning for every single student.
A team of experienced school professionals providing high-quality operational solutions for schools and trusts.
We provide leadership support and advice on operational matters, including risk, finance, HR, governance and trust growth.
Our in-depth approach goes above and beyond box-ticking and compliance; helping you deliver the best possible outcomes for your pupils.
Leadership Coaching and Training with an Edge! Instead of the ‘quick-fix’ offered by twilights or training days, we become your ongoing partner on this journey of cultural change. Our 3-tier coaching accreditation programme supports you to create a culture of trust, motivation and wellbeing, one conversation at a time. Our team of 22 associate coaches all have school leadership experience and show your staff how to listen to themselves and to each other, resulting in happy, high performers who feel valued by their organisation. Our mission: To Lift Up the Education System From Within. Please join us to enhance professional fulfilment within your dedicated workforce.
The Leadership Skills Foundation is a prominent awarding organisation dedicated to the development of leadership skills in young people. We bring these essential skills to life through practically applied qualifications and accredited awards across the curriculum and beyond, empowering learners with the confidence to believe, the qualities to lead and the skills to succeed.
Let’s Go Zero is the national campaign for schools to be zero carbon by 2030. As part of the Let’s Go Zero campaign our team of Climate Action Advisors offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England. We support schools to understand their carbon impact, make effective plans, and find funding and resources. We work with schools of any size, even those that are just starting their sustainability journey. We also spotlight local opportunities for how schools can work together.
Our team of dedicated Education Relationship Managers provide ongoing strategic support in the formation and growth of academy trusts. We also provide guidance on financial efficiencies and banking structures that provide our education partners with full oversight and control of their banking services. Other services include support with investment policies, estate decarbonisation, payment efficiencies and staff benefit schemes such as EV salary sacrifice and staff financial wellbeing.
We work with more academy trusts than any other bank – 8 out of 10 trusts choose our services over other providers.
MAC is a leading consultancy providing strategic estates management services and advice on all aspects of construction projects to schools and academies nationally.
With seven regional offices and multi-disciplinary expert teams, we support clients to manage their estate in line with the DfE’s ‘Good Estates Management’ principles. We believe that excellence within estates leads to excellent educational outcomes and our services include:
If you need further information or a free initial consultation, please get in touch!
Winner of the Education Resources Awards for Best Primary Resource, Teach Primary Awards 2020, Teach Early Years Awards 2021 for Best Literacy Resource. It is gaining a reputation as the world’s best primary resource for literacy.
Mighty Writer is a unique physical resource that transforms children’s literacy almost overnight, guaranteed! It is designed for every class of EYFS, KS1 and for intervention in KS2 and every school shows a transformation within 6 weeks.
All our CPD training is free, for life! Now used by 450k children in 50 countries!
The National Institute of Teaching will boost the quality of teaching and school leadership by carrying out research, applying the insights to its professional development programmes, and sharing findings with the sector.
Our programmes are designed by teachers and leaders who understand the joys and pressures of school life. We work in collaboration with schools across the country, ensuring that our findings benefit all schools, teachers and leaders.
ONVU Learning provides an innovative video lesson capture tool for schools and trusts, offering a unique 360-degree view of the classroom with superior audio quality.
This platform supports teachers in reviewing and enhancing their teaching methods, promoting autonomy and self-reflection by allowing them to control footage sharing.
It addresses traditional observation anxieties, emphasising teacher well-being and supporting personalised continuous professional development (CPD), while raising academic standards benefiting both teachers and students.
We add life to a lifetime of learning.
We’re the world’s leading learning company, dedicated to helping everyone realise the life they imagine.
At Pearson, our purpose is simple; to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That's why our c.20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world's leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are.
Our vision to help everyone to realise the life they imagine through learning.
We use our knowledge, experience and technology to deliver the world’s best learning products to more people around the world than ever before. We do it because we are here to help people achieve their potential because we know that when we demonstrate the value of learning, we demonstrate the value of our business and transform lives.
Introducing Pentagon Play - the UK’s number one school playground provider with over 25 years of experience in crafting outdoor school playgrounds.
With expert outdoor learning consultants, dedicated project managers and qualified product designers, joiners and installers, you can rest assured that Pentagon Play is the best company for your playground developments. Whether you’re looking for a bright and exciting EYFS playground transformation, or a versatile outdoor classroom space to suit all of your pupils, Pentagon Play can support you through every stage of the development, crafting a high-quality and durable outdoor learning space that will stand the test of time.
Education recruitment with values.
Peridot Partners is committed to developing the leadership of School, and Multi-Academy Trust organisations through partner-focused, values-led executive and board recruitment. The strength of our organisation comes from our cross-functional networks, our exceptional research team and our experience attracting people. We specialise in recruiting:
- CEO’s
- COO’s and Executive Leaders of Education
- HR and People Leaders
- Non-Executive Directors and Trustees
- Chairs, Vice-Chairs, and Committee Leads
PGL Beyond is a network of brilliant brands with a shared mission, to spark breakthroughs in young people through transformational experiences that go beyond the classroom.
PGL has been running children’s activity camps since 1957 and is PGL Beyond’s flagship brand. Synonymous with primary school activity trips, PGL offers a wide range of different outdoor adventures for all ages.
NST is the UK’s largest educational tour operator providing curriculum-linked trips to over 100 destinations each year. European Study Tours provides worldwide educational tours, whilst Studylink Tours is a leading student group travel specialist for the further and higher education sector.
QDP Services offer an unlimited survey membership to Trusts which is an independently managed, confidential platform and ensures ALL of your stakeholders are given a voice.
Membership Includes:
…ability to track improvements is instrumental in shaping school improvement priorities."
"…ability to compare data against other institutions is fantastic…I highly recommend QDP.”
"…confident no provider can match [QDP’s] price or products."
Let us help YOU make a real difference and shape a better tomorrow for those who matter most.
Renaissance Star and GL Assessment products offer the ideal starting point to help schools understand students’ strengths, pinpoint areas of need and put targeted measures in place. Meanwhile personalised practice solutions Accelerated Reader, myON and Freckle, then provide teachers and leaders with effective next steps and insights to drive better student outcomes.
SAAF Education works with over 600 schools, academies, and trusts, providing tailored support within each of our service areas – financial management support, payroll, HR, and supply and recruitment.
We identify challenges and offer solutions and expert guidance - helping you every step of the way.
Our definitive aim is to save you time and money and equip you with the right tools, resources, and support that you need, so you can focus on educational excellence and pupil care.
Sage is a leading provider of cloud-based accounting, financial and payroll software solutions for Schools and Multi Academy Trusts. With over 40 years of experience, Sage empowers education establishments to streamline operations, gain valuable insights, and make informed decisions. Their innovative products cater to various industries, offering scalability and flexibility to meet evolving business needs. Sage is committed to customer success, providing exceptional support and resources to help businesses thrive in today's competitive landscape.
Saxton Bampfylde is a leading executive search firm for education, with nearly forty years of experience in executive and board appointments. We were recently recognised in the Financial Times Leading Recruiters 2024 list for our work in education. We have partnered with some of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts and smaller regional Trusts, gaining deep insights into their unique challenges and opportunities. Our approach prioritises close collaboration with clients, ensuring we understand your organisation's needs, ambitions, and culture. This enables us to attract high-quality candidates who align with your mission and values. Our dedicated team guides you through a clear, effective, and collaborative process to find the right candidate. We also offer tailored leadership services, including board advisory, talent mapping, psychological assessment, and leadership coaching.
School Business Services’ education-specific teams specialise in finance, MIS and ICT.
Our professional services include short- and long-term cover for finance and data staff at all levels, along with management accounting, internal scrutiny and timetabling.
Our financial forecasting and planning software SBS Financial Planner is used by over 2,000 schools and 200 MATs.
How do you manage your school’s estates without knowing what you have to manage? At School Property Matters we believe in data driven estates management. We provide intelligently structured floor plans, full 3D BIM, integrated dashboards and comprehensive pupil capacity analysis. Combining the power of 3D BIM with dashboards empowers estates teams to make well informed decisions and optimise their built environment. We turn scattered data into powerful tools for smart estates management. Whether it's figuring out the best way to use resources, planning how a school should grow, or making sustainable and environmentally friendly choices, SPM is here to simplify the complexities.
SchoolHire works with over 1,000 schools (including multiple MATs), providing an online lettings platform to allow schools to manage facility hire in a more streamlined way.
Hirers can see pictures, features and live availability, answer questions set by the school, upload documents, agree to the school’s terms and pay. Schools review and approve bookings and benefit from being able to access dashboards, a calendar, as well as numerous financial and operational reports.
We also have a track record increasing lettings revenue for schools, helped by the fact that our schools always come top of Google for searches that relate to their facilities.
Schools BI is an analytics tool that draws data from multiple School & Trust systems (MIS, Finance, HR etc) and displays it for you on clear and insightful dashboards. Bringing all your information together in one place enables your Trust to efficiently make data-driven decisions. We offer a unique blend of a core solution and bespoke consultancy; A strong set of core dashboards plus the flexibility to custom build a solution specifically tailored to your Trust’s individual requirements. We are a tight knit team of education experts that are agile and responsive enough to constantly evolve depending on requirements in schools.
Second2None School Support delivers expert and dependable governance services to academy trusts across England. Since 2010, we have built a strong reputation, now supporting over 200 schools in the Northwest and Midlands. Our dedicated professionals assist trustees and local governors in maintaining organisation and staying informed, allowing them to concentrate on strategic and delegated responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring best practices in governance to benefit children and young people in education.
Sendient leverages Artificial Intelligence to deliver objective, consistent, and efficient assessment, grading, and personalised student recommendations. Our SmartEducator platform empowers teachers to create engaging, multi-modal assessments that align with the Key Stage 3-5 curriculum. By reducing administrative tasks, SmartEducator allows teachers to focus more on teaching, ultimately enhancing learning outcomes. Through its adaptive guidance and recommendations, the platform supports and enriches pedagogical practices, providing individualised learning opportunities for each student.
SIMS is the leading MIS on-premises and in the cloud, trusted by over 15,000 school and used by one million MAT leaders and teachers for over 30 years. SIMS makes running great schools easier. Leaders have the data and insights they need to make decisions that will improve performance, student wellbeing and results. Teachers have the data and tools they need to support student monitoring and attainment, pastoral care, wellbeing and safeguarding. It makes admin and reporting easier and faster for everyone, freeing up critical time and resources to focus on what matters most – learning.
We are deeply committed to education and understand the opportunities and challenges met by educational institutions. We deliver high quality, full-service legal advice informed by national know-how but delivered locally through our network of six offices at a price you can afford.
Externally recognised as a leading firm for education law in the UK, we have specialists with deep sector experience in all aspects of school provision. Our broader team daily advises on areas such as employment, property and procurement, and we have specialists advising on all aspects of school life, including areas as diverse as immigration and intellectual property.
Strictly Education provides comprehensive education support services that enable you and your staff to stay focused on improving classroom outcomes.
Working exclusively in the education sector since 2004, we have a longstanding success of working closely with schools, academy trusts and colleges to deliver a broad range of high-quality services that address challenges and truly make a difference. Underpinned by experienced education experts, our services are designed to support schools and academies with their day-to-day operations through:
• improving efficiencies, saving you time
• reducing administrative costs
• managing and retaining staff effectively
• and keeping your school safe and compliant with statutory requirements
Sync supports organisations across the UK, aiding in the adoption, deployment, and ongoing use of Apple technology. This includes the provision of hardware, software and finance solutions, as well as installations, training, technical support, repairs, and more. We are proud to be in a position where our experts can blend the strong organisational knowledge developed over three decades with the new skills and strategic employee acquisitions of recent years, as well as offering a range of online services and technical support. While the technology and deployment practices have changed since we first opened our doors, our overall approach remains unaltered: to deliver customer centric solutions via a consultancy led approach, in order to progress and support UK schools and businesses.
The Ogden Trust supports the teaching and learning of physics across England, providing support for anyone teaching physics topics from EYFS to KS5. Our range of fully funded professional development includes subject specific support for early career teachers, tools for teaching physics for those teaching out of field, and opportunities for schools to work together in partnership to improve their physics provision.
Thrive has been working in partnership with educators and organisations to help young people feel safe, supported and ready to learn since 1994. With its focus on building secure relationships and providing positive experiences, the Thrive Approach has been proven to improve behaviour, attendance and learning outcomes. Thrive's training courses and award-winning assessment and action planning tool, Thrive-Online, help educators to understand the needs of their pupils, provide targeted support, and measure (then report on) the impact.
Umbrella Group is a partnership between like-minded businesses who specialise in providing professional services to the education sector.
Our partners have a shared mission to help educational establishments navigate the evolving educational landscape and unite to provide schools and trusts with everything they need to deliver an outstanding education for their students, staff and local communities.
Our expertise covers recruitment, estates and capital, legal, finance, governance, marketing, procurement, compliance, ICT and project management.
Virtual IT Education
Your trusted partner in Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity We help MATs to transform and tackle their strategic challenges with school-tested IT solutions that enable them to modernise and simplify their IT environments while empowering their staff and budgetary needs. Our experienced team offer proactive guidance on the latest regulations, as well as smart digital growth strategies born from years of experience helping MATs successfully navigate the complexities of digital change. Priding ourselves on relationships we can offer IT escalation support to your in-house teams or local, highly experienced managed services and daily support onsite or remotely.
Vivify is a school lettings provider that offers schools a cost-free solution to hire out their facilities. Our school partners have experienced a huge number of benefits including time saved for staff, reduction of risks associated with lettings, increased pupil recruitment, and improved community reputation. We can support your school in two ways:
Welbee supports MATs to systematically improve staff wellbeing with its award winning approach that delivers evidence proven benefits – higher retention, lower absences, lower costs, and improved student outcomes.
A CST recognised supplier and MATA staff wellbeing partner, The Welbee Way, our unique approach covers three key steps.
We specialise in proving a managed service which helps school trusts to consolidate their energy contracts to one central contract, providing the following benefits:
The Youth Sport Trust is the UK’s leading charity improving every young person’s education and development through sport and play. Working together, we empower young people to achieve their personal best and equip educators to change lives, creating a future where every child enjoys the life-changing benefits of play and sport. Working with more than 20,000 schools across the UK we operate on a local, national and global level. We harness the power of PE, sport and play to build life skills, human connections and belonging which increase young people’s life chances through improved wellbeing, greater attainment and healthier lifestyles.
