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Our industry-leading education software is designed by experts to improve efficiency and increase engagement within your educational establishment. Our ultimate goal is to empower educators to focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional learning experiences to their students. Access Education software solutions give you the freedom to put education first.
Find out more: theaccessgroup.com
Action Tutoring is an award-winning education charity with over 13 years of providing impactful tutoring support to pupils facing disadvantage. This year, we're further strengthening our evidence base by partnering with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) on a major efficacy study, reinforcing our commitment to high-quality, evidence-based tutoring. We're tackling the attainment gap head-on. Partnering with schools, we match trained volunteer tutors with pupils to strengthen subject knowledge, confidence and study skills. Our programmes deliver measurable results: pupils who attend regularly make clear academic progress. We heavily subsidise our programmes so we can reach and support the pupils who need it most. Find out more: actiontutoring.org.uk
Anago Education provides budgeting and forecasting software that is built for schools and multi-academy trusts. Developed with the input of MAT finance teams, Anago’s platform helps these organisations move from outdated, disconnected budgeting systems to a single, secure source of truth. Equipped with trust-wide visibility through the platform’s intuitive, easy-to-use interface, finance leaders can build, monitor and control their budgets more efficiently.
As a market leader in the Netherlands, Anago is now harnessing its 25+ years’ experience to support a growing number of UK schools and trusts – helping to make their budgeting and forecasting simple, effective and measurable.
Find out more: anago.io
Arbor is home to the UK’s most-popular MIS and school management software. Give your staff time and power back with an MIS that makes every day easier and more collaborative. Join-up your critical school operations with specialist, top-rated HR, Finance and timetabling tools. Make your school data meaningful and easy to action with market-leading benchmarking and reporting. Join the 7,000 schools and trusts using Arbor to transform the way they work.
Find out more: arbor-education.com
We are a leading banking partner to education providers across the UK. From local nurseries to global research universities we help deliver outstanding student experience and outcomes. Barclays Corporate Banking has the banking excellence you’d expect with the data and insights you don’t. Through our dedicated Education team, and the power of the wider Barclays network, we can provide you with innovative banking and treasury solutions that help you achieve a more expansive, better-connected future for your institution. Visit barclays.corporate.com.
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 barker-associates.co.uk or call 01279 647111
We share the desire of every practitioner that every child, regardless of their background, should benefit from an excellent education. In collaboration with our Delivery Partner Network, education professionals and the Department for Education, we design, develop and deliver high-quality CPD and qualifications to aspiring teachers, practising teachers, school leaders, early years practitioners, teaching assistants and SENCOs. Be the best you can be and transform the lives of children and young people with our extensive suite of fully funded programmes and apprenticeships. Find out more: bestpracticenet.co.uk
BookingsPlus provides tailored lettings management solutions for MATs that deliver an excellent customer experience, additional revenue and operational efficiency. Our custom-branded MAT booking platform operates as your trust's own Booking.com-style platform for lettings. Additionally our supporting team of Booking Gurus can directly engage with your customers and liaise with staff. Visit us to learn more about how to optimise your Trust's lettings activities.
Find out more: schoolbookings.co.uk
Do you know which of your schools are emergency-ready? Drop by the British Heart Foundation stand to ensure every defibrillator in your trust is registered and visible to ambulance services. The Circuit is the UK’s national defibrillator network—endorsed by the Department for Education (DfE), and used by all 14 ambulance services. Registration is free, fast, and ensures your trust meets DfE guidance while improving emergency readiness. Over 18,000 school defibrillators are already connected. Visit us to check your Trust’s status, collect recognition materials and learn how The Circuit supports estate-wide visibility, risk reduction, and operational assurance. Find out more: defibrillators.bhf.org.uk
Browne Jacobson is one of the leading law firms operating in the sector. Our education team deliver a comprehensive portfolio of legal and HR services to schools, academy trust and local authorities nationally. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how our lawyers improve outcomes for every person, community, education institution and business we serve. We're part of an elite group of law firms ranked in Band One nationally for advising schools by both independent legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers UK. We're proud to be seven-times winner of the EducationInvestor award for legal services for education and to be ranked by the Times and Sunday Times as a top education law firm for 2025.
Find out more: brownejacobson.com
Building Spatial Intelligence is a UK leader in 3D spatial mapping and parametric BIM, helping multi-academy trusts transform estate data into strategic insight. We integrate 3D BIM, 2D floor plans, capacity analysis, condition surveys and compliance data into a single intelligent dashboard, giving trust leaders a clear, live view of their estate.
Our work supports expansion planning, falling rolls management, CIF bids and BB103 alignment, enabling confident, evidence-based decisions. By establishing a strong spatial data foundation, BSI helps trusts future-proof their estates, align property with educational strategy and unlock smarter, more sustainable growth through digital transformation.
Find out more: buildingspatialintelligence.co.uk
Cambridge OCR is a trusted awarding organisation offering a broad portfolio of general and vocational qualifications. We're committed to making assessment straightforward, enabling every student to thrive and achieve the results they deserve – regardless of background, learning differences, academic focus or future path. Through our qualifications, support and resources, we're committed to delivering the highest standards of consistency, accessibility and fairness, year after year. We’re part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, the University of Cambridge’s publishing and assessment department.
Find out more: ocr.org.uk
CENTURY Tech is an award-winning AI education technology company focused on the learning, teaching and assessment space.
Our team of teachers, neuroscientists and technologists develop world-leading artificial intelligence tools for schools, colleges, universities, tuition and training providers.
Founded by entrepreneur Priya Lakhani OBE in 2013, CENTURY’s vision is to provide every teacher and learner with intelligent tools that help them succeed.
Using our proprietary innovative AI technology, developed over 10 years of working with educational institutions around the world, we provide unparalleled Actionable Intelligence with our learning, teaching and assessment platform. Find out more: century.tech
Chalkie helps teachers create lessons in seconds. Simply pick a topic and let AI do the heavy lifting - generating fun, accurate, curriculum-aligned slides, lesson series, and activity sheets that are ready to share, export, or print. Designed with teachers, for teachers, Chalkie gives you back the time and freedom to focus on what truly matters.
Find out more: chalkie.ai
Chess in Schools and Communities is a charity that runs chess lessons and clubs in over 380 schools nationwide. Children are taught by one of our trained tutors, progressing from the rules of the game to foundational tactics and strategy over a full academic year. Children acquire a life-long skill, opening up an affordable and enjoyable game of limitless depth. They also gain well-documented educational and social benefits through learning the game. Alongside direct teaching, we provide a range of support to over 3,000 schools: free chess sets, teacher training, access to online platforms, and use of our curriculum. Find out more: chessinschools.co.uk
CJK is a specialist consultancy working with trusts and school groups. For over eight years, we have supported trust leaders to navigate growth, complexity and change, using robust benchmarking data to underpin strategic decisions with real-world insight. We work alongside trusts to help them take the next step in their development journey, always grounded in their individual culture, context and values. Our work includes operating model review and redesign, trust strategy development, and support for growth and mergers. We are known for our pragmatic, evidence-led approach and for helping boards and executive teams make confident, well-informed decisions.
Find out more: cjkassociates.co
Children need simple, natural environments that promote open-ended, imaginative play. Since 1947 Community Playthings, has designed and manufactured wooden furniture and play equipment, drawing on expertise from childcare professionals across the UK and internationally. Made in our workshops in the UK, the solid wood construction and robust joinery make for products that last decades. Our furniture is mobile, modular and adaptable, enabling you to change and configure your environments to suit the needs of each child and staff member. All items carry our standard 15-year warranty, and we provide free 2-week delivery anywhere in the UK.
Find out more: communityplaythings.co.uk
Since 2018, Education Mutual has been transforming staff absence protection with an innovative, non-profit making approach that prioritises schools, budgets, and wellbeing. Tailored memberships combine the benefits of commercial insurance with a community-focused ethos, ensuring every surplus is reinvested directly back to the education sector where it’s needed most! Our multi-award-winning service delivers budget certainty and includes access to a wide range of health and wellbeing services which are all included at no additional cost such as face-to-face counselling, physiotherapy, 24/7 GP access, and occupational health support to reduce and prevent absences.
Find out more: educationmutual.co.uk
We work exclusively in education, supporting over 2,500 schools and 200 trusts since 1993. Our comprehensive services enable schools and trusts to achieve positive outcomes while minimizing risk. We assist daily operations and critical decision-making processes, covering areas like payroll, pensions, finance, compliance, recruitment, and training. Our intuitive, integrated software simplifies management, supported by expert advice on disciplinaries, grievances, DBS, TUPE, and strategic challenges such as academy conversions and MAT growth. By combining advanced software with expert consultancy, we deliver efficient, compliant, and strategic solutions, ensuring clients meet their core objectives and successfully navigate essential tasks and strategic projects.
Find out more: epm.co.uk
The Fischer Family Trust has been valued for 25 years by school professionals. FFT Education Datalab produces independent, cutting-edge research on big data, education policy and practice. The FFT Aspire for Trust subscription gives more than 350 school trusts the full set of trust and school dashboards — a full ‘helicopter view’ from tracking achievement and attendance, to robustly identifying trends and raising aspirations for all across your schools. New for 2025 is the Secondary Tracking add-on; save with a clear, easy to use view of achievement from Year 7 to Year 13.
Find out more: fft.org.uk
The Financial Times' charity, the Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign (FT FLIC), is dedicated to boosting financial literacy in the UK and globally, amongst young people, women, and underserved communities. FLIC offers a free financial literacy curriculum for secondary schools, featuring six 50-minute lessons for Year 7 up to Year 13. The curriculum is freely available to teachers via FLIC’s online Learning Hub and has been quality assured by both the PSHE Association and the National Association for Special Educational Needs. Designed by experienced classroom teachers, the lessons are practical, engaging and relevant to young people’s lives. Find out more: ftflic.com
Ginger Energy is a specialist consultancy with extensive knowledge in the utility industry. Our core client base operate in education, property management and governmental contracts. With increasing upward pressure on energy costs, never has it been more important for every available measure to be taken to ensure accuracy and value for money. Our procurement experts diligently navigate the complex utility market to ensure our client’s benefit from the best fit, best value contracts. We provide these services whilst supporting your business to comply with relevant industry and procurement regulations. As a team, we have a wealth of experience in the utilities sector and enjoy enabling cost savings and time efficiencies for the businesses with which we partner. Our focus has always been to place ourselves as a trusted utility outsource partner.
Find out more: gingerenergy.co.uk
We are an education publisher with over 150 years of expertise, now focused on helping schools navigate an increasingly complex landscape. As priorities like teaching quality, attainment, inclusion, data use and teacher development become more interconnected, schools need solutions that work together—not in isolation. We provide those solutions globally, combining digital platforms, high‑quality print resources, assessment, intervention and professional development. Our purpose is to unlock every learner’s potential, supporting whole‑school improvement through four connected areas: Teach, Learn, Assess and Enable. This framework clearly communicates the full breadth of what we do and how we turn educational ambition into sustained impact.
Find out more: hachettelearning.com
humanutopia began in January 2004 with the mission to 'empower young people to make positive changes in their lives. We have gone on to deliver our highly acclaimed programmes in over 1000 schools to over 650,000 students and 50,000 staff in 7 different countries. Our work is groundbreaking, dealing head on with the most important issues facing young people. Over the past 22 years many students have changed the course of their lives after attending our events. Our unique Peer Mentoring programme - the Heroes Journey is character education at its' finest and has amassed a spectacular 50,000 young volunteers. Find out more: humanutopia.com
Ian Buss has been supporting Academies since 2010 in developing simple and effective deposit strategies to significantly increase interest earned through the only DfE approved Deposit Platform, Insignis. He offers a complementary investment policy and deposit strategy for all trusts. CST members also receive 25% of their first year's Insignis fees back as a rebate. This is applicable to all new customers setting up their Insignis platform from the 1 February 2026. Find out more: educationbanking.co.uk
Smarter technology for stronger trusts.
Trusted by over 12,000 schools and 75% of multi-academy trusts across the UK, our comprehensive solutions transform how schools manage operations, drive improvement, and deliver better outcomes for pupils. Our solution suite includes Finance & Budgeting, HR & Payroll, Compliance & Estates, Student MIS, Parent Engagement, Cashless Catering, and Recruitment.
From Unity Schools Partnership and Kernow Learning, to Future Academies and Durrington Multi-Academy Trust, we work with leading MATs and schools to connect people with data, turning insights into action.
We’re passionate about helping individuals, teams, and entire trusts succeed. When our technology gives you time back, you can invest it where it matters most: in your people, your pupils, and your purpose.
Time creates value. Value delivers success.
Find out more: iris.co.uk/education
ISBL is helping multi academy trusts achieve business, finance and operational excellence. We support education organisations, including multi academy trusts, through a range of strategic development tools including OpEx for Education, consultancy and support services, and our accredited Approved Partners. We are the UK’s professional body for all people working across school and academy business, finance and operations and have been established and supporting the sector since 1997.
Find out more: isbl.org.uk
Trusted school and trust operations support from Keystone Knowledge. At Keystone we combine our passion for education with our sector expertise and best practice to provide practical solutions for schools and multi-academy trusts. Our services include internal scrutiny, HR retainers and advice, finance support and trust growth services, incorporating due diligence and conversion support. Find out more: keystoneknowledge.com
The LTA is the National Governing Body for tennis and padel in Great Britain. Our FAGE LTA Youth Schools programme is FREE to all schools and has been designed specifically for schools to support the curriculum and wider school outcomes. It brings together inclusive PE lesson plans, personal development resources, teacher training and exclusive discounts to events. Plus, when a school completes training they receive a £250 reward voucher (limited to one per school), which can be spent on school tennis equipment or 10 hours of team teaching with an LTA Accredited Coach. Find out more: lta.org.uk/roles-and-venues/schools
Award-winning Coaching Training designed by school leaders for school leaders. Our 3-Tier Coaching Accreditation Programme empowers schools and Trusts to shift away from top-down leadership towards a culture of personalised professional development, belonging and wellbeing. With a nationwide team of 22 coaches, all with a school leadership background, your colleagues will develop the skills of PURE coaching so they become confident and agile leaders, who listen, challenge and support each other with confidence and competence. Join our mission of Lifting Up The Education System From Within by empowering your staff with PURE coaching:
Personal - Unconditional - Relevant - Empowering
Find out more: leadershipedge.org.uk
The Leadership Skills Foundation is a prominent awarding organisation dedicated to the development of leadership skills in young people. We grow these essential skills through practically applied qualifications and accredited awards across the curriculum and beyond, empowering learners with confidence to believe, qualities to lead and skills to succeed. Find out more: leadershipskillsfoundation.org
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, decarbonisation, payment efficiencies, and staff benefit schemes such as vehicle salary sacrifice and staff financial wellbeing. We work with more academy trusts than any other bank – more than 7 out of 10 trusts choose our services over other providers. Find out more: lloydsbank.com
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 the world’s leading primary literacy resource with 100% of schools reporting transformation on all areas of literacy within 6 weeks. 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 is now partnered with Widgit to provide SEN symbols. All our CPD training is unlimited! Now used in 54 countries!
Find out more: mightywriter.co.uk
ParentPay Group's mission is to deliver technology that creates more time for learning, supporting teachers, leaders, administrators, caterers and librarians. We understand the challenges of centralising data, standardising processes across sites, demonstrating impact, and delivering value from investment. Our solutions combine to create an operating system for well-run schools – helping MATs deliver exceptional outcomes, effective operations, engaged communities, and enhanced wellbeing, at school and trust/group level.
Find out more: parentpay.com/parentpaygroup
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That's why our c. 18,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world's lifelong 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.
Visit us at plc.pearson.com
PLANERGY Spend Management is an easy-to-use education-focused Procure-to-Pay and Automated Accounts Payable Processing Software, designed to strengthen and simplify procurement as well as save school finance teams 75% of invoice processing time. Real-time reporting dashboards, approval automation, budget control, AI driven 3-Way matching, with Amazon (and over 40 other) PunchOut Integrations, plus seamless integration with all leading Financial Management Systems including XfE and Sage Intacct. Find out more: planergy.com
Use QDP to listen to your audience, inform strategy, and measure impact. Our independently managed, confidential, and secure platform ensures all stakeholders have a voice.
We provide tailored questionnaires covering all aspects of MAT and school life, with the choice of online or paper-based surveys.
MATs can manage projects centrally or allow individual schools to run their own. Reports are easy to understand, with internal and external benchmarking, EIF reporting, issue comparison, and trend analysis to support planning and decision-making.
Choose either SurveyManager or Gold Service membership and let QDP do the hard work for you.
Find out more: qdpservices.co.uk
At Renaissance, we believe the right technology can unlock a more effective learning experience: one in which every student grows to their full potential and teachers are freed up to do what they do best—teach. A global leader in educational technology, our solutions are used to accelerate learning in more than 100 countries across six continents. Together with GL Assessment, we provide accurate assessments, purposeful practice and actionable insights, through solutions like Accelerated Reader, CAT4 and Renaissance Analytics, to help you secure the best possible outcomes for the children in your care.
RM Technology is a dedicated partner in the education sector, with over 50 years of experience enhancing learning through technology. As part of the RM plc group, the company supports schools, trusts, and educational organisations by providing, managing, and supporting digital infrastructure, including broadband, internet safety, and tailored hardware solutions. With a focus on creating equitable and engaging learning experiences, RM Technology enables educators to focus on teaching while ensuring robust, secure, and sustainable IT environments. They are trusted experts in transforming classrooms for the digital age, supporting millions of learners worldwide.
Find out more: rm.com
Stop trawling through school websites and policies. Robin does all the hard work for you, with its AI-powered compliance checks and policy audits for school and MAT websites.
With Robin as your compliance sidekick you’ll:
"Robin is an absolute game-changer and time-saver… it improves accuracy and frees people up…I don’t think there’s a product like it out there." Dave Kemp, IT & Data Lead, Thrive Co-Operative Learning Trust
Join 75+ MATS (750+ schools) today.
Find out more: robin.education
Sage Intacct is a web-based, SaaS accounting and financial management software system designed for use by education organisations, from multi-academy trusts, schools, colleges, and so much more. Sage Intacct is the #1 modern cloud financial management solution, built by finance experts for finance professionals. It helps CFOs access integrated management and financial reports across their business entities in minutes not days to grow and drive their businesses.
Find out more: sage.com
At Schools Advisory Service, we aim to be more than just the UK’s leading provider of absence insurance and staff wellbeing; we are dedicated to transforming education from the classroom to the staff room. For over 30 years, we have supported schools in managing staff absences, offering policies that not only protect school budgets but also reduce and prevent staff absences through a comprehensive wellbeing package. We make a difference in education by allowing schools to prioritise wellbeing, enhancing the lives of both their staff and students. Our team of in-house experts has worked in collaboration with education stakeholders to create a tailored service specifically for school staff, focusing on their overall wellbeing, resilience and health. Find out more: schooladvice.co.uk
Schools’ choice offers a partnership approach to the best software, support, outsourced and consultancy solutions to trusts managing a range of assurance, data protection, financial, governance, HR and payroll disciplines.
Supporting you to optimise resources to provide the best education experience for students.
This year, Schools' choice team will be on hand to demonstrate the latest technology available to trusts to work smarter. Saving time, money, and the planet! As well as improving inclusion, flexible working and staff wellbeing.
Come and see the latest technology developments from OWL labs, Sage and our clever technology partners.
Find out more: schoolschoice.co.uk
Scriba is a meeting and governance platform developed in partnership with trust leaders and governance professionals and built specifically for schools and MATs. Scriba uses AI and next-gen technology to transform the administration around meetings, from writing minutes to tracking actions and has been designed to save time, reduce pressure, and strengthen governance. By providing intuitive tools that do the heavy lifting Scriba helps to relieve the pressure on clerks, governance professionals, trustees and governors. Less admin. More impact.
Find out more: scriba.co.uk
Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning experience platform, offering a suite of AI-powered, award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning. Find out more: seesaw.com
Designed with teachers at its core, SmartEducator is transforming assessment in schools through secure, AI-driven innovation. Our user-friendly platform reduces marking workloads by up to eight hours per week, enabling educators to focus on what matters most: teaching and student wellbeing. SmartEducator marks handwritten and typed assignments across subjects, delivering consistent, objective insights and personalised learning support. Built to integrate with platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom, we combine adaptive learning, deep analytics and the highest standards of data security. Visit our stand to discover how SmartEducator empowers teachers, enhances student outcomes and protects your students’ data. Find out more: sendient.ai.
Smartgrade is a standardised assessment platform designed for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) to create, share, and analyze standardized assessments. It provides detailed insights into student performance at question, topic and overall grade level, helping to identify learning gaps and benchmark results against national cohorts. Customers can either set up their own in-house MAT assessments or access assessments from our partners which include Ark Curriculum+, AQA, CUSP, HeadStart, United Curriculum and White Rose Education. Alongside standardised percentile ranks and standardised scores we also offer predictions as scaled scores (primary) and GCSE 9-1 grades (secondary).
Find out more: smartgrade.co.uk
Surveyors to Education (S2e) is an education estates and energy strategy consultancy, focusing on creating education estates for the future.
We are a team of building surveyors, architects, engineers and health and safety specialists who can assist across all areas of estate and energy management.
Established in 2013 working exclusively in the education sector. We understand its history and the decisions that it’s been shaped by. We recognise the challenges the sector faces and help clients overcome them. We believe in the transformational power of creating safe, warm, well-designed buildings that we can all be proud of.
Find out more: s2e.org.uk
Education has been at the heart of our practice for more than 60 years. During this time, we’ve successfully delivered projects of all types, values, and complexities.
We recognise that every school has its own distinct needs and challenges, so from the very beginning we take the time to understand our clients’ aspirations, and work alongside them to achieve them. Our goal is to make the process as seamless and stress-free as possible, minimising disruption so schools can stay focused on what matters most—their students and staff members.
We also assist with strategic estate planning that aligns building condition, development priorities and future needs. Our Planned Preventative Maintenance surveys (PPM) provide a risk-based, prioritised, forward-looking plan of all the buildings within an estate portfolio. We take a retrofit ‘fabric first’ approach to improving energy efficiency that measures fabric performance when upgrading building systems.
Find out more: synergyllp.co.uk
Teaching Personnel, proudly part of Supporting Education Group, is the UK’s largest education staffing provider. Now in our 30th year, we work with more than 6,000 schools and multi-academy trusts, delivering teachers, support staff and tuition through a dedicated network of more than 18,000 flexible educators. With more than 80 branches across 25 locations, we combine national scale with local relationships. Our Early Years, Primary, Secondary and SEND specialists understand the pressures schools face and match the right people to the right settings, quickly and with care. For larger trust groups, our product SupplyBank helps centralise staffing, offering a 99% booking fill rate and average savings of £22 per booking per day.
Find out more: teachingpersonnel.com
The 1st MAT built HR & Payroll platform is finally here. Built with the sector, for sector and backed by education payroll and pension experts. One login, one system, one single source of truth for all your staff. Find out more: tenzing-education.co.uk
TGE Solutions is the UK’s leading independent audit, procurement and technology consultancy for Multi Academy Trusts. Specialising in telecoms, IT, broadband and cyber security we ensure trusts maximise value from existing services while procuring future-ready solutions compliantly and cost-effectively.
With over 2,500 projects delivered and partnerships spanning 1,500 schools and 80+ MATs, we have secured more than £20 million in savings.
Our structured audit-to-procurement approach saves leadership teams time, strengthens DfE Digital and Technology Standards compliance, reduces risk, and enables technology investment to directly support teaching, learning and operational excellence. Find out more: tgesolutions.co.uk
Looking for reliable, proactive site staff? At TIB Services, we specialise in temporary and permanent recruitment of site managers and caretakers for schools, trusts, colleges, and more. Our nationwide network of 11,000+ candidates comes from the emergency services, military, engineering, and trades to provide you with dependable, community-focused site staff. Pre-vetted to KCSIE standards and fully trained in advance, they’re ready to make an immediate, positive impact. With supplier relationships spanning 2,000+ schools and trusts, we’re relied upon to deliver an exceptional service. In fact, 97% of our customers rate the candidate we place with them as ‘excellent’.
Find out more: tibservices.co.uk
Top Marks AI specialises in highly accurate batch marking of handwritten scripts across a range of the Humanities and Social Sciences. We evidence the accuracy of each of our 400+ tools against exam board standards – consistently achieving 90%+ correlation with the chief examiner – and can handle thousands of scripts at once. Features include: pedagogically exceptional feedback; whole cohort feedback; Wonde and MIS integrations for student management and analytics; and the batch exporting of grades/feedback.
Find out more: topmarks.ai
Transformative is a trusted partner for Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), helping them to drive digital transformation, innovation, and organisational change across the education sector. With deep expertise in digital strategy, technology and infrastructure, cyber security, EdTech, data insight and more, Transformative supports trusts to boost digital maturity, enhance productivity, and achieve sustainable organisational outcomes. They work collaboratively with stakeholders to simplify complexity, foster innovation, and improve decision-making and resilience, enabling MATs to maximise the impact of technology on both operational efficiency and teaching and learning experiences.
Find out more: thetransformative.com
Delivering procurement services with our supplier partners through compliantly competed frameworks and dynamic marketplaces Value Match address all major areas of expenditure for school trusts. The managed services provided include on-site specialist resources, digitising spend and contract management, monthly procurement reporting, contract and supplier management and we have created additional and contracted social impact of over 300+ jobs, apprenticeship or training opportunities for children.
Find out more: value-match.co.uk
Perfecting finances for school leaders
If you’re a leader in the education sector, we know you’re working hard to lead and nurture the talent of tomorrow. But are you giving enough focus to your own financial future?
Our specialists have been working with education professionals for many years. We understand that the needs of education leaders can be more complex than those of classroom teachers and are on hand to help with a variety of financial areas.
We can help you protect the life you’ve worked so hard for, and plan for the retirement you’ve always dreamed of – offering guidance on both the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) and Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS).
Find out more: wesleyan.co.uk
West Mercia Energy are a "DfE approved" energy framework provider, with over 30 years’ experience procuring energy and providing energy services across the across the public sector. We currently support over 2,500 education settings and in 2024 launched the UK's first decarbonisation framework, specifically for the education sector. Our market leading "managed service" ensures large multi-site energy contracts run smoothly, enabling your Trust to focus their attention elsewhere, in the knowledge your energy contract is in safe hands. Full details of our provision can be found here.
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 own personal best and equip educators to change lives. Sport gives young people a platform to have their voice heard and a place to feel they belong. We harness this extraordinary power to change young lives today and help them build a brighter tomorrow.
We do this by:
Find out more: youthsporttrust.org
Education is our heritage, for over 50 years we’ve been providing better value to our customers by working with a variety of leading UK suppliers to provide you with a large range of high quality products and services. From art supplies, curriculum products, furniture, and even compliant contracts. We help provide you with everything you could possibly need, making it easier for you. We’re 100% publicly owned, meaning all our profits go to the public sector. We’re proud to be a trusted partner. Find out more: ypo.co.uk