School Consultancy

Our consultancy services provide bespoke solutions and practical guidance to schools, governors and leaders to maximise your schools’ potential in a changing educational world.

Strategic Consultancy: addressing the opportunities and challenges facing schools with a practical, flexible and knowledgeable ‘outside the box’ approach.
Marketing & Media: bespoke marketing strategies and stunning aerial and video photography create perfect opportunities to market your school across multi-media platforms.
Restructuring & Change: providing an external perspective to change management within your school through consultation and a reflective approach.
Mergers & Acquisitions: discreet advice from experienced legal, financial, educational and estate teams ensure effective oversight of this challenging process.

Strategic Consultancy, Restructuring and Change management and Marketing & Media solutions are just some of the key areas where our knowledgeable consultants work closely with governors and leadership teams to address the opportunities and challenges that face schools today.

We also work discreetly to provide tailor-made solutions to that most challenging of situations that can face governors and leadership teams, Mergers & Acquisitions. Our experienced and highly effective team of educational, financial, legal and property specialists provide support and guidance throughout the entire process as schools search for ways of achieving educational excellence alongside changing demographics and financial constraints.

Our bespoke consultancy services ensure we focus on practical, realistic and cost-efficient targets which aim to transform your school: no generic reports or abstract comments; no bland statements and vague conclusions; no promises that we can't keep. We look forward to working with you, helping you achieve your school’s ambitions and developing a rewarding partnership which exceeds your expectations.

We are keen to meet with Governors, Heads, Senior Leadership Teams and other staff to discuss how we can help you achieve your ambitions.

For a discussion about how UKschools.com can help you please contact us

Our clients regularly praise our practical, realistic approach and our targeted approach provides comprehensive advice relevant to your school and specific needs. Our aim is to demonstrate how many effective initiatives can be implemented, often with manageable costs, for maximum effect. Your consultant has the detailed knowledge to advise you of the very issues your school seeks to address.

We meet with governors & trustees, heads, senior leadership teams and other staff to discuss how we can help you achieve your ambitions for your school.

Our consultants have undertaken a diverse range of strategic audits and advisory assessments. By spending significant time with your leadership team and in your school we get to understand precisely how your organisation works, its strengths and its weaknesses, either actual or perceived. Our aim is to leave your team and staff feeling stronger, more confident and empowered as they work with you to raise standards, adopt new whole-school approaches or implement exciting new initiatives. Below are just some examples of work undertaken. Contact us to discuss how we can support your school.

We are keen to meet with Governors, Heads, Senior Leadership Teams and other staff to discuss how we can help you achieve your ambitions.

For a discussion about how UKschools.com can help you please contact us

We pride ourselves on providing schools with bespoke, creative marketing, media and communications solutions and strategies that are practical, achievable and cost-effective.

We are educational marketing and development specialists with over 25 years’ experience in transforming retention and recruitment from Nursery up to University. Our specialist knowledge and breadth of experience, combined with our attention to detail ensures that schools and universities can secure their complete, targeted marketing and media solutions through just one company, UKschools.com.

We’re delighted that our team offers more practical and achievable marketing and media solutions, rather than expensive, generic, school marketing reports. We aim to do things differently:

to listen, engage, be pro-active and creative in our work with you. After all, it’s your school and we’re there to help and provide bespoke advice and solutions.
to identify and provide your marketing and media solutions from our experience in diverse industries, including creative directors from award-winning national marketing campaigns, consultants with international corporate experience and, of course, those with considerable experience working in, and with, schools.
to give generously of our time and offer genuinely practical, effective, solutions that can often be swiftly implemented.

Schools are going to have to work much harder after the recent challenging and unprecedented times. Every school claims to have its own USP – often great pastoral care, impressive academic results and/or stunning facilities – the problem is that so many other schools are claiming these too. So, what is your school’s unique selling point? Do you know? Has it changed or developed over years? Have you ever asked anyone?

We aim to help your school define itself and, where possible, differentiate from the competition.

We bring that ‘fresh pair of eyes’, that ‘independent and impartial perspective’ and the knowledge and experience of seeing other schools face challenges too.

Some of the ways in which we can help:

create campaigns to build family enquiries
develop personalised online prospectuses
maximise social media marketing
raise your school’s profile
communicate and consult with parents, students, staff and other stakeholders
discreet auditing of existing systems and approaches

... and so much more. Contact us to start the conversation.

Digital Media

Our team delivers targeted national and international social media campaigns to increase profile, enquiries, and recruitment.

Our team ranges from those with considerable strategic marketing experience to those who have a real understanding of the power of social media and how schools can harness the possibly untapped, effective communication tools in the constantly changing world of global social media.

Very few schools truly understand or use social media advertising properly – so we want to help you stand out from what is a crowded marketplace.

One thing 2020 has taught us, is the fact things can be done differently more than ever before. It has also proven that remote working is no impediment for project success.

We create excellent value campaigns that will:

grow existing global social media audiences (ideal for international recruitment)
create new audiences and potential student recruitment from targeted online advertising
provide Return on Investment (ROI) estimates based on trusted audience algorithms
promote events, attendance, participation, or engagement
generate significant numbers of qualified and relevant enquiries

Consistent results for clients show them how social media delivers precise ROI analysis, unlike print or outdoor media, meaning marketing spend can be interrogated accurately, and spent more wisely.

The budget is as little or as much as your budget and project brief allows. We have conducted small scale campaigns for schools for as little as £2000.

Filming & Photography

Take your school to new heights! Our considerable schools’ marketing experience combined with an exceptional aerial and ground imaging team brings schools an exciting, bespoke approach to film, media and marketing.

Unique aerial imagery, professional video and impressive still photography combine to create stunning opportunities to promote your school. We have the knowledge, skills and equipment to bring your school to life with imagery that really will capture visitors’ attention.

Website Build & Development

Promote your school effectively with a dynamic, mobile-friendly and eye-catching website which clearly identifies your ethos and makes communication with your wider community easy.

Search-engine optimisation is invaluable to ensure your school, charity or organisation is benefitting from the large target audience on the web. Be guided by those who understand and can secure better online presence for you.

Our recommended easy-to-use management systems will ensure that your website will always be dynamic, relevant and up-to-date. Initial training is available and included in our set-up.

Marketing Audits

Our experienced consultants conduct comprehensive reviews of all marketing and communication tools: social media, website, literature, advertising, personnel and budgets.

We conduct a complete analysis of marketing from prospective parent enquiry to a review of all your promotion and publicity approaches before a subsequent follow-up with prospective parents and students.

A review of your admissions and communications process is one of the most useful and valuable services that we offer. Our external perspective often identifies areas that can be improved with remarkable ease and lead to greater effectiveness. This gateway to your school is fundamental to your reputation and perception in the wider community.

Influences on change may include:

preparing young people for the changing world of C21st employment. How we teach and how students learn are at the centre of providing relevant and creative and appropriate education by restructuring and enhancing your school’s current provision.
Identifying national and local demographic changes and adapting your school’s provision accordingly.
School financial matters and planning; student numbers.
Changing educational provision in the area, eg new or closing school.

Examples of restructuring:

Realigning staff roles & responsibilities to create efficiencies and greater effectiveness.
Identifying and addressing ineffective aspects of your core aims and ambitions.
Reconfiguring classroom and corridor spaces to create a flexible learning ‘piazza’.
Enhancing existing facilities: Sixth Form Learning and Innovation Centres, Multi-tech Learning Resource Hubs, imaginative boarding houses.

Making initial decisions regarding a merger or an acquisition can often seemingly occur quickly and unexpectedly and create times of considerable stress and anxiety.

Many governors are unfamiliar with the process and yet are expected to not only manage, but lead, schools in a smooth transitional period and achieve a satisfactory outcome for parents, staff and the children whose education depends on their skills and commitment to achieving the very best outcome.

Our specialist consultants are here to advise and manage the process with governors and SLTs.

UKschools.com brings together a strong, specialist team required for School Mergers and Acquisitions – legal, financial, tax, education and property; the skills, experience and knowledge that governors need to support them in this challenging process.

Our practical, bespoke approach offers a range of necessary skills, including: