Annual Conference Exhibitors
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All-in Education
All-in Education
All-in Education helps education institutions globally to become inclusive work and learning places - making recruitment more effective, ensuring talent stays for longer, helping staff fulfil their potential and ensuring the curriculum and learning environment is inclusive.
Every client is different. The measures to become more inclusive and to benefit from the diverse world we live in will be tailored to your needs.
Reap the benefits of inclusion with our support.
Baines Cutler
Baines Cutler
We collect sector leading data through our extensive benchmarking surveys, which we turn into information and advice to fit every client’s unique cultures and strategies.
We use your peer to peer data, along with a thorough understanding of what makes your school unique, to put structures in place which maximise your resources in ways which incentivise staff, deliver your offering and realise your strategic objectives. ...
We have helped schools of all sizes and types, both in the UK and abroad, to streamline costs and focus resources, so that they are able to survive financial pressures and stand head and shoulders above the competition with a true confidence in what they stand for.
Explore our website for insight into how we can help make your school a cultural and financial success, wherever you are.
Board Intelligence
Board Intelligence
Board effectiveness isn’t an art but a science, and we’ve been decoding it since 2008 to build AI-powered tools and advisory services that help boards work at their best.
Bursarnet
Bursarnet
WHY: operational efficiency (spending money wisely) is a key lever in making independent schools more affordable.
HOW: joining a network of 600+ independent schools allows detailed comparisons of cost efficiency, and enables group-wide savings.
WHAT: operational benchmarking across 30 KPIs identifies where opportunities lie, and their value. Bursarnet partners help you deliver them.
Cazenove Capital
Cazenove Capital
Your wealth. Your way.
We understand the impact your wealth has today and for generations to come. That’s why we work with you to help your investments create the future you want. We listen to you and build our service around your vision.
We are a high-net-worth wealth management division of Schroders, the global investment firm, in the UK. We work with individuals, families, financial advisers, family offices and charities. Our clients benefit from the resources and expertise of our parent company as well as our relationships with specialist investment partners around the world. Schroders’ founding family remains the firm's largest shareholder, providing us with stability and allowing us to take a long-term perspective.
CCLA
CCLA
Investment markets can only be as healthy as the society and environment that support them.
Through Good Investment we carefully select assets that add long-term value and act collectively to encourage systemic change.
Our purpose is to help our clients maximise their impact on society by harnessing the power of investment markets. This requires us to provide a supportive and stable environment for our staff and deliver trusted, responsibly managed and strongly performing products and services to our clients, irrespective of their size.
Class Technology Solutions
Class Technology Solutions
Class Technology Solutions Limited (CTS) is your trusted technology partner of choice. We are a passionate, forward-thinking company, dedicated exclusively to investing in the future of schools and colleges. Our future depends on continuously creating tools which will support schools and colleges in innovative ways. Our focus is to bridge the gap in curriculum-based learning with the use of innovative technology in the classroom.
We understand the problems facing educational establishments and continue to facilitate the transformation of schools by providing ICT improvements which fundamentally alter the teaching and learning environment.
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical
We offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. We’ve done it for 135 years, from when we were first founded to protect churches, to now, as we help individuals and organisations to protect what matters most to them across a broad range of specialisms.
https://www.ecclesiastical.com/
Evelyn Partners
Evelyn Partners
What we do
Wealth management
Providing expert financial planning and investment management services across the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
Professional services
Providing specialist accountancy, assurance, tax and advisory services to individuals, business owners and corporate businesses.
Online investing
Reinventing online investing by providing clients with everything they need to choose and manage their own investments.
Fund solutions
Providing regulatory fund solutions to UK collective investment schemes.
GovernorHub
GovernorHub
GovernorHub was born back in 2012, from an idea to get everything governors needed online, in one place. Since those early days, we've been on quite a journey. GovernorHub is now used by 8,000 schools and 100,000 users around the country, working in partnership with local authorities and clerking services. Our focus on giving governors what they need, all in one place, has never wavered though.
GovernorHub became part of The Key in May 2020, and we've been working closely together ever since to support great governance in school and trust governing boards.
We're on a journey to bring The Key's expert advice and guidance for school and trust governing boards within GovernorHub itself, so it's even easier to access, whatever your role and setting. We've brought them together in name, too, calling it 'GovernorHub Knowledge'.
You can try GovernorHub (and GovernorHub Knowledge) for free for one month, by purchasing a subscription either from us, or from one of our many partners.
HaysMac
HaysMac
Faced with constant evolution, you need specialists with intimate sector and market knowledge, forged at the sharp end of industry. You need recognised experts who have one motivation: your best interests.
Headquartered in London, HaysMac is a chartered accountancy and tax advisory firm offering a wide range of professional services, from audit and assurance, taxation and outsourcing to business advisory and transaction services.
HCR Law
HCR Law
As an award winning Top 60 UK law firm we provide the full range of legal services to organisations, business leaders and individuals. Our sector experts provide specialist advice nationally and are leaders in their field, recognised with industry awards.
Our clients trust us. We help them not only be compliant with the law but to run commercially successful operations. We’re with families and individuals for the moments that matter; helping protect their wealth now and for the future.
IDPE
IDPE
IDPE was established over 20 years ago with a vision to enable all schools in the independent and state sectors to develop cultures of community engagement and philanthropic support so that they can provide the best educational experience for children and young people.
IDPE aims to support member schools to:
- improve learning environments and resources for pupils
- improve access to independent education for children from disadvantaged backgrounds
- improve mentoring and careers support for young people
- improve partnerships between state and independent schools
IDPE does this by championing best practice in schools' fundraising and engagement through providing training, guidance, support, benchmarking and partnership work across the schools' sector.
Jo Beckett Coaching & Development
Jo Beckett Coaching & Development
I bring first-hand experience of turning organisations around from deficit to profit, leading teams and engaging stakeholders through change and diversifying income streams to future proof organisations. I view leadership as a work in progress and believe that there is always scope for development within us all. I became a professional coach after experiencing the transformational benefits that coaching can bring.
I work with senior leaders and their teams providing training, executive coaching and consultancy specialising in:
- Income diversification for improved profitability
- Leadership development for high performing teams to collaborate and achieve more together
- Strategic leadership coaching for greater resilience, focus and personal impact.
I believe that everyone has the ability to solve 99% of problems themselves: they just need the right coach to ask the right question.
No two clients are alike and nor are the relationships I build. The common thread is the trust, understanding and the mutual respect we develop between us. I'm a great believer that ‘less is more’. I work with a limited number of clients at any given time so that I can fully understand what matters most and how best to support you, your organisation and your people.
Marsh
Marsh
We help our clients, colleagues and communities grow by empowering them with the confidence to thrive. We seek better ways to manage risk and define more effective paths to achieve the right outcomes. We go beyond risk to rewards for our clients, our company, our colleagues, and the communities in which we serve.
Marshal Eye
Marshal Eye
The Marshal Eye is an app based solution to providing resilience. Rather than having nominated staff responsible for an area, we have flipped it around. When a fire alarm activates any staff who are appointed and onsite will open up the Marshal eye on their phone, and all the incident tasks will be displayed for them to claim.
Key app features:
- Tailored for your environment create
your own tasks and roles - Instant communications across the fire
response team - No more resilience problems, due to
staff ‘opting in’ when a fire event starts - Access to information for each role
- Exportable reporting after each
fire alarm - Other critical alerts, first aider required, or Lock down
- Notification centre for all team members
- Reporting of Issues
MTM Consulting
MTM Consulting
We are all about providing solid data, insightful analysis and clear recommendations to enable organisations to plan for future stability and success and to uphold their responsibilities to parents who entrust them with their children’s education.
Our feasibility studies, supply and demand analyses and stakeholder research projects are all designed to help school business leaders to understand the potential of their organisation’s market, where they stand against their competitors, what the market wants and what it does not want.
Nurole
Nurole
Nurole is a global non-executive search specialist, changing the way organisations hire board-level talent.
We are breaking open the old headhunting processes – secretive searches that throw up safe and predictable names. This model isn’t working, either for talented people keen to use their expertise in new ways, or for organisations that need fresh perspectives.
By combining smart technology and industry expertise, we transform the boards of multinationals, start-ups, charities, government bodies, and everything in between.
It’s the most efficient way to find high quality, diverse candidates and empowers brilliant people to apply for roles that match their skills, passions and availability.
Rathbones
Rathbones
Rathbones is a leading provider of individual wealth management, asset management and related services to private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners.
Reed Brand Communication
Reed Brand Communication
We help your school to:
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Establish where you are
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Identify where you need to be
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Provide you with the tools for you to achieve your objectives
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Guide and support you to get there
How we do it
We use research and insight to create sustainable marketing strategies for school leadership teams and then plan and design the branding to market your school.
AGBIS collaborates with Reed Brand Communication to produce podcasts for our series, 'The Independent School Governor'.
RHL Consulting
RHL Consulting
Rachel Hadley-Leonard Consulting
Rachel has a real understanding of the unique world of education, educators, parents and pupils. In addition to being a qualified schools’ marketer and fundraiser, she has worked as a Teacher, Head of Department & Senior Leader, and as a trainer and consultant with many independent schools and Multi Academy Trusts. Rachel has recruited many MAD professionals to schools’ Marketing, Admissions and Development offices. She works with schools to ensure growth, increased pupil numbers, and an enhanced reputation. Her particular strengths lie in the areas of stakeholder research, strategy, audits and Development/Fundraising start-ups.
School Fee Plan
School Fee Plan
School Fee Plan helps to make school fees more affordable for parents who prefer to manage their budgets and avoid paying the full amount in one go.
School Fee Plan is different from other educational financial products on the market. Ours is a win-win solution for both parents and schools. We pay our client’s termly fees in full and on time (making the school smile) and our client then repays us monthly enabling them to manage their finances simply and worry-free (School Fee Plan includes school trips or extra-curricular activities) making parents smile.
SchoolHire
SchoolHire
SchoolHire advertises facilities across the UK that are available for hire. Whether you are looking for a swimming pool for a birthday party, football pitch for your local team, classroom for your business or dance studio for your clients, SchoolHire will find you the facility you require. As the name suggests, schools originally provided the facilities. Many schools have excellent quality, clean facilities that are often available from late afternoon onwards, at weekends and during long school holidays. However, SchoolHire soon realised that there are so many other venues that have available facilities, such as leisure centres and universities. These venues (and many more) are now listing their facilities on SchoolHire.
SchoolHire is a ground-breaking enterprise that encourages social and communal interaction as well as promoting healthier lifestyles in the opening up of fitness facilities to the wider public.
Browse our website today and see how we can help you.
https://schoolhire.co.uk/
SDS Group
SDS Group
We are experts in secure digital archiving of schools heritage archives and entire schools administration business records: Bursar, HR, Pupil files, Governors Minutes, Policies & Procedures, parent consent forms and more.
For over 25 years, The SDS Group has been providing quality ICT solutions and services to schools and other educational establishments. We now work with over 300 of the top independent schools in the UK, including Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Charterhouse, Roedean, Marlborough, Cheltenham Ladies College, Wellington, Westminster, Christ's Hospital and the eight Schools of the King Edward VI Foundation
Our solutions include:
- Scanning of Student Records
- Heritage and School Magazine online Resource
- Bursar and Staff/HR Records – scanning
- Estate and FM Solutions (O&M Files, Large format Plans)
- Significant Anniversary, WW1, WW2 and other special projects
- Governors Minutes
- H&S, Policy & Procedure Control System
- Alumni Who's Who Interactive website
- Cataloguing Archive Manager of Schools physical and heritage assets
- White Label Gap Year Careers Product
- SRAS (Schools Records Administration System) - a complete package which sits between the schools MIS and Financial Management System
https://www.sds-group.co.uk/our-specialities/school-records/
Selina Finance
Selina Finance
Use your home’s equity to secure your children’s education
Paying for school fees can be challenging, but with a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) from Selina, you can release equity from your home to manage these costs more effectively.
Our HELOC offers flexible and affordable financing tailored to your needs, allowing you to pay for school fees responsibly.
https://www.selinafinance.co.uk/use-cases/private-school-fees
Stone King
Stone King
Our ethos is based on understanding client’s needs, being good listeners and looking at the big picture.
We work together to provide clients with seamless, complementary legal advice covering all aspects of law.
This approach has helped us build a reputation for excellence amongst both private and commercial clients, whilst our strategic focus has made us national leaders in the charity and education sectors.
We are independently recognised as a leading law firm by both Chambers and the Legal 500.
Taskspace
Taskspace
School interiors that improve academic outcomes and look stunning are fundamental to the success of any independent school. So if you’re looking for a building development partner who can help you deliver school buildings that have genuine WOW factor, you’ve come to the right place. When you work with TaskSpace, you get access to your very own team of school interior designers, project managers and site operatives who will look after your projects end-to-end.
Whether embarking on a new construction or renovating existing facilities, your vision will be brought to life by a team who have designed and delivered show-stopping interiors for the most ambitious schools in the world. So if you want a school interior that has serious pulling power for the pupils, staff and parents, you’re in the right place. Welcome to the School Interior Renaissance. Welcome to TaskSpace.
The Allergy Team
The Allergy Team
The Allergy Team ambition is to help children with food allergies thrive. When my son Will was 6 months old he was diagnosed with a severe milk allergy. Discharged from hospital, clutching EpiPens, antihistamine and dairy-free formula our allergy journey began. Suddenly we had answers to Will’s poor weight gain, his eczema and reflux. All could be explained by dairy passing through my breast milk. But there were still so many questions.
I found the impact overwhelming – weaning was a period spent tiptoeing around food, days spent in hospital carrying out food challenges. Fear gripped me in the middle of the night, reliving the anaphylaxis, and understanding what Will could and couldn’t eat. And there was so much isolation and confusion – how to understand food labels, manage a social event with a toddler with low tables spread out with food he was allergic to and then… how to get childcare and return to work.
Now Will is 8 and has a younger brother, Freddie is 5. They both still have multiple allergies and carry AAIs but they’re thriving! Will LOVES football, Freddie loves cooking. They are at the local school where they eat with the other children. I am still daunted by the road ahead… how to ensure they take on the responsibility of their food allergies, and have the same opportunities as everyone else which is why I came together with Jen to set up The Allergy Team.
Thomas Franks
Thomas Franks
We are proud to work with many of the most prestigious schools in the UK and Europe.
We understand that food is at the heart of school life, particularly in boarding schools and we are expert in ensuring an outstanding experience for the whole school community.
Nourishing pupils is paramount to everything we do. We ensure our pupils always enjoy freshly prepared, tasty and nutritious food which supports their development and enriches their school experience.
Zeelo
Zeelo
Zeelo is the leading transportation solution for companies and educators.
We use our nationwide network of bus and coach operators to deliver the best service. We ensure operators are compliant and drivers undergo a rigorous background checks. All operators are trained to use the Zeelo technology and to deliver our high standard of service.
We provide the most flexible booking platform to setup the employee experience adapted to your needs, including a large range of booking options, live tracking of vehicle, 24/7 support, and more. Get in touch to discover how our technology can cater to your organization's needs.
We use our proprietary routing software to help you maximize staff catchment and ROI of your shuttle program. We can also monitor stop requests and popular areas searched on our platform to advise you on adjusting the routes and reach more employees and students.
We provide a fully Carbon Neutral service by offsetting our CO2 emissions thanks to several carbon positive initiatives around the world, managed by our partner CNaught. By working with Zeelo you will get regular reports on the sustainability credentials of your program.