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Active8 Managed Technologies are focused on delivering quality end user business services, supporting the diverse needs of the modern workplace. Our three core offerings are Managed Print Services, IT Services and Hosted Telephony.

Integrity, Honesty & Transparency

We are proud to deliver these values each and every day to all of our customers. Our strong business ethic forms the basis of our organisation and the key reason why our customers trust in our service, products and people.

Whilst we are a young, dynamic company, every one of our team has the industry experience to deliver professional, impartial advice every time.

Simple transparent contracts written in plain English.

A promise to deliver our services ethically at all times.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

0333 999 7355

Website:

www.a8mt.co.uk

We build better leaders for a better society. AQ are industry experts with decades of experience in the education sector across executive search, interim management and advisory. Driven by our core values, integrity, diversity and hands on project ownership. We understand our ability to access and engage the right candidates before converting them to applicants is our most valuable currency to you.

AQ is a business founded on supporting clients and candidates in the education, healthcare and not-for-profit sectors as well as the wider public services. A deep belief in equality, diversity and fairness is at the heart of our values. Our role is to seek out talent in all its forms, identify future talent and challenge assumptions – we do this by having an open mind about sources of talent and we see it as our duty to actively challenge assumptions about what outstanding talent looks like.

Contact us at [email protected] to find out how we can help you.

At apetito, we believe that nutritionally balanced meals are key to supporting your pupils’ growth, which is why we work with Schools across the UK to feed thousands of children every day.

Save time and money with our simple, cost-effective solution which requires no fixed contract. Achieve menus filled with choice and get absolute confidence with assured nutrition and allergen safety across our 200 delicious dishes developed by our talented team of chefs, dietitians and nutritionists. With apetito, your school could see:

•          Simplified catering

•          Up to 50% reduction in kitchen labour

•          Save thousands on catering costs

•          Happy children & parents

Interested in seeing how we could help your School? Get in contact today and make the most of a free tasting session. [email protected]

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01225 637348

Website:

www.apetito.co.uk/our-service/school-meal-services

eEnergy is a digital energy services company, empowering schools to tackle the energy crisis by eliminating energy waste and transitioning to low-cost clean energy, without upfront capital investment. We’ve delivered over 600 successful projects to help schools reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions by up to 50%. Schools can benefit in four ways:

• Access the lowest-cost clean energy through our digital procurement platform and energy management services.                                                                                                  
• Measure energy waste with granular data and insight on energy use.                                                                                                                                                            
• Reduce energy use with the right energy efficiency solutions including LED lighting at no upfront cost.                                                                                                      
• Connect sustainably with onsite solar energy generation and electric vehicle (EV) charging.                                                                                                                                  

Accelerate your school’s journey towards lower energy costs and a more sustainable future. 

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

eenergy.com/isa-members/

Engage, our award-winning School Management Information System from Education Horizons, empowers over 620 leading independent and international schools spanning six continents. Engage features unique customisable workflows and forms, tracked communications, school-specific terminology and multi-language capability, all in a single database solution. The scope of Engage provides you with a single vendor solution for key academic, administrative financial needs, while our API and custom integrations provide a smooth pathway to other leading school products. Engage provides the essential connection between staff, parents and students, enabling your school to maximise its effectiveness in delivering holistic education.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

+44 193 540 3020

Website:

educationhorizons.com/solutions/engage/

The right assessments are vital for evidencing performance and uncovering your students’ potential, whether as part of your school assessment programme or your admissions process. With independent schools facing greater demands than ever, assessments also need to be rigorous, easy to use and efficient.

We will help you to meet these challenges with assessments that are built on the best academic research and extensive trialling, and which provide reports to enable you to make quick and effective use of the data with the support of our dedicated team of experienced independent school advisers. Our parent reports also support home/school relationships and help to demonstrate the value you add to children’s learning.

Our assessments are used by the majority of UK independent schools and 19,000 schools worldwide. Find out more and put us to the test.

Website:

www.gl-assessment.co.uk/assessments/independent/

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01138980360

Website:

holmes-partners.co.uk/

Imago is a high quality School Photography and Videography company with strong values and a flexible approach.  We provide:

• Great images that reflect the character of the students and put a smile on parents’ faces. 
• Excellent organisation to ensure every shoot runs as smoothly as possible and admin is kept to a minimum.
• Value in what we can give back to the school.

You can see more of our images here:

www.Imagojuniors.com

Account Login Name:     Schoolexamples@imago

Account Password:          SCHGALL09*

Please contact Alex at [email protected] or call her on 01252 728457 for further information.

Innermedia is an established, fully in-house digital agency with an open and consultative approach. We work with schools throughout the UK to plan, implement, and measure digital journeys that deliver excellent ROI and create an online presence that works in line with your overall aims. Based in Hertfordshire, our team focuses on building sites that rank well and produce measurable results.

We have extensive experience and success working with both commercial and independent school clients; we understand your market and have a proven track record in planning, creating, and delivering effective marketing solutions to engage with new parents and direct them to your school. Every part of our process is created to help you achieve long-term success online, as well as delivering an attractive and easy-to-use website.

We have provided over 150 independent schools with our expert strategies as well as our digital services which include websites, MIS integration, school apps, social media, photography, video, drones, paid advertising, SEO, virtual reality tours and ongoing measurement, tracking, and support.

Let us help you discover online success.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01707 875721

Website:

www.innermedia.co.uk

JTRS are Certified Apple, Google and Microsoft Education partners. We provide technology solutions, technical services, technology financing plans and training support to help you create an inspiring teaching and learning environment according to your needs.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

0330 223 0500

Website:

edu.jtrs.co.uk

Educational facilities can experience a variety of challenges in safeguarding students and staff. Keri Systems believe that security providers have a moral obligation to keep our future generations and those who teach them as safe as possible.

Providing students and staff with a safe and secure learning environment is more important than ever before. Keri Systems has over three decades of experience developing access control solutions and with over a million secured worldwide, are well-positioned to help educational settings manage access, improve security, efficiency, and automate emergency responses.

Together we want to ensure that our future can grow in a safe and secure environment and invite you to reach out for a free consultation and a demo on how we can help.

Contact:

Trevor Ball - Sales Director Europe

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01763 273243

Website:

www.kerisys.com

Modulek are a market leading true hybrid construction company.

Specialising in providing state of the art learning environments we are proud to have completed projects with some of the country’s leading Independent and Preparatory schools.

We understand the importance of designing and constructing new buildings, so that you can accommodate the latest facilities for modern learning.

Designing buildings that are bespoke to your requirements and setting, we provide a fixed price complete turnkey solution that covers the entire design and installation solution, covering all aspects of the project from start to finish.

We understand schools are busy places, and work with you to offer minimal disruption by:

• Delivering in narrow windows of time
• Accommodating delivery and construction within holiday parameters
• Work with minimal disruption through term time, with a carefully planned segregated site compound

Take your school provision to the next stage:

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01202 813121

Website:

modulek.co.uk/modulek-buildings/educational-buildings/

The Penningtons Manches Cooper Education Group works with a wide range of independent schools (including Pre-Prep, Prep and Senior) to help them achieve their goals while managing risk.  Schools choose to work with us because we pair commercial guidance with a broad understanding of the sector and an appreciation of the reputational issues that schools face.

With UK offices in London, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, Oxford and Reading, as well as our international offices, our specialists are described as providing ‘an excellent level of service and responsiveness’ (Legal 500 2019).

Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers provides advice across a range of services, including:

• Corporate
• Commercial
• Charity
• Data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Employment & HR
• Governance
• Immigration
• Real estate and issues concerning property
• Regulatory including ISI and OFSTED
• Pensions
• Safeguarding and guardianship
• VAT and Tax

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

0118 402 3842

Website:

www.penningtonslaw.com

Perry is a leading school uniform and sports kit supplier with an extensive range of services that make us a natural choice as your uniform supplier.

We work alongside our partner schools to deliver distinctive uniforms and high performance sports kit with an exceptional service to parents, tailored to meet the needs of both school and parent alike.

Perry offer the convenience of online shopping supported by in-school fitting events; showrooms and school shops. Providing a truly integrated and multi-channel shopping service is just one of the many benefits of working in partnership with Perry.

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

www.perryuniform.co.uk

The established and trusted name in debt recovery for independent schools. Authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, we represent more than 900 schools. A reliable partner when school fees have not been paid, providing both effective recovery with unmatched service and communication. A traditional service, in a modern manner.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

0204 519 4953

Website:

www.redwoodcollections.com/education

Scottish Widows was founded in 1815 and has since established a proud history of supporting employers and helping employees plan their financial futures. Today, they have over 6 million customers.

Scottish Widows is one of the most recognised and trusted brands in the Life Pensions & Investments market.* The organisation’s credentials continue to grow having gained a prestigious Financial Adviser 5 Star rating in the Pensions and Protection Provider, and Investments Provider categories in 2021, as well as winning the UK Pensions Awards for DC Pension Provider of the Year and DC Master Trust of the Year.

With the recent changes to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, many independent schools are considering changing their workplace pension arrangements for teaching staff. Scottish Widows’ flexible workplace pensions are underpinned by a wealth of knowledge and experience, and they’re dedicated to helping you deliver a solution that aims to fulfil you and your employees’ needs today and in the future.

Get in touch or visit scottishwidows.co.uk/independent-schools to find out how Scottish Widows can help support you, your business and your employees.

Richard Thorkildsen (DipPFS), Corporate Partnerships Director

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

07740699405

SDS are experts in managing school archives, working with nearly 600 UK independent schools.

We are digital heritage experts creating inspirational resources for your school’s history and nostalgia by utilising the archives with alumni engagement. 

Capture and present your school’s history, nostalgia and archives on a forever website.

School archives are the perfect tool for reaching out and connecting with your alumni community. SDS can help you use the school history/heritage strategically, to develop relationships and increase your fundraising capacity.

Scan material from your school archives, harvest posts from your social media channels and showcase this on an interactive and searchable website.

Involve your students with their DofE programme / archive club, retired members of staff and PTA, local businesses…..a real community project.

Perfect for forthcoming and significant Anniversaries.

SDS are also IT Specialists, GDPR and records management consultants. Paperless Office and smart Governor Minute solutions. SDS Group are a scanning bureau providing school bursars with a suite of solutions centred around Records & Data Management and IT document management workflow systems.

SDS Group are The ISA’s digital archivists.

 www.yourschoolarchive.co.uk

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01202 496513

Website:

www.sds-schoolrecords.co.uk

Sunray doors – for your timber or steel door requirements

Based in Ashford, Kent, Sunray Doors are leading designers, manufacturers and installers of timber & steel commercial doors.  We have a wide range of fire doors, certified security doors, and steel louvre systems.  We are proud to say supplied into the education sector amongst other areas.   

Our timber fire door range includes a myriad of options and variations that meet required standards.

Designed to provide extremely high levels of intruder resistance, our security range is ideal for applications where asset protection is of paramount importance, and these have been fitted to a variety of installations, including Education, Government, defence, transport, utilities, healthcare, retail and leisure facilities.

Sunray security doors and louvres have been third-party tested and certified by the Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) to Loss Prevention Standards (LPS) 1175.

Recognising that every project is different, we work closely with customers offering a truly bespoke design service.  Our unique sector experience and innovative approach to engineering problem solving means we can deliver quality solutions that they can trust.

Please do get in touch to find out how we can help.

Kirk Davies:

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

07384 543086

Website:

sunraytimberdoors.co.uk/

Towergate Insurance help their education clients to protect schools through an ever-evolving risk landscape. Their approach puts clients at the centre of everything they do with a commitment to quality and the highest professional standards. Their experienced team have a deep understanding of the risk issues facing independent schools today and they have worked for many years guiding Proprietors, Headteachers, Bursars and School Business Managers through the often complex issues of risk management and insurance provision. Their focus is on delivering quality advice, effective cover and value for money to create bespoke insurance programmes that reflect the school’s unique risks and exposures.

If you are considering reviewing your school’s insurance arrangements, or would simply like to discuss specific policies, get in touch today:

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

01438 735264 , 07483 930 439

Unifrog is the universal destinations platform trusted by over 3,500 schools globally. We bring all the available information of every post-16 and post-18 pathway into one impartial, user-friendly platform to support students make the best choices and submit the strongest applications. As well as connecting students to the best university courses, degree apprenticeships, and placements in the UK, Unifrog helps them compare every English-taught undergraduate programme around the world.

We empower teachers and careers advisors to manage the progression process effectively, saving time and money by bringing the whole-school careers provision into one place – including work experience, psychometric testing, and plug-and-play lessons for the entire careers, PSHE, and personal development curriculum. Our application management tools offer complete oversight of personal statements and teacher references.

Unifrog’s tools and resources are tailored to engage students from Year 7 to 13. Younger years start with psychometric tests to explore interests and skills, extensive careers and subjects libraries to inspire potential pathways, and space to record and reflect on their skills development. Students can make meaningful interactions with top universities and employers through our webinars, virtual and in-person events, and short courses. We also give parents and caregivers platform access to engage with their children’s careers learnings.

[email protected]

Website:

www.unifrog.org