Driving Sustainable Growth in Multi-Academy Trusts 2020 - Digital - Programme

• A brief overview of the regime
• Compliant routes to market
• Tips for getting things right
• The future of public procurement

Peter Ware, Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP

• An overview of school’s procurement
• The implications of COVID-19 and BREXIT on new and current contracts
• A guide to the new wave of frameworks, designed to help you save money
• Key areas for savings to be generated
• Q&A

Claire Delaney, Managing Director, Schools' Buying Club

Manage and market your brand effectively and approach fundraising in an ambitious and unique way in order to create opportunities for your learners.

Matthew Crawford, CEO, Embark Federation

Rosie McLaughlin. Marketing, Fundraising and Events Manager, Embark Federation

Establishing an effective procurement strategy to ensure best value, as well as practical ideas and good practice to reduce non-staff spend

• Practical strategies to producing an initial procurement strategy
• A look at longer term strategies
• The benefits that having a strategy provides

Clive Hammond, Head of Procurement, Academies Enterprise Trust

The 3 Step Framework to Results-Driven Marketing at Your School or MAT

• Understand the importance of creating a strong marketing foundation
• Know how to craft the perfect blend of marketing activities to reach their target families
• Have clarity on how to activate their marketing strategy to achieve optimum results

Emily Richards, Founder, The Stickman Consultancy

The benefits and pit-falls of centralisation and creating a cultural buy in

• Clearly identify the benefits of centralisation
• Be aware of the many opportunities open to 'centralisation' within your own trust.
• How to get there.

Tommy Cullen, COO, The Stour Academy Trust

Changing the culture of individual schools, with a view to buying into being a part of a MAT and embracing centralisation, while still allowing for a level of autonomy

•         Practical tools on how to deliver change across the Trust
•         Understand an example where a MAT has moved to a fully centralised system
•         See an example of a funding model to make the centralisation structure financially sustainable

A look at the drivers that affect the internal and external growth of a Multi-Academy Trust and the process that need to be put into place to ensure that any potential expansion is successful and sustainable

Emma Hughes, Senior Associate, Browne Jacobson LLP

Claire Pritchard, CEO Plantsbook Learning Trust

The role of School Resource Management Advisers (SRMA) and the importance of optimising the use of all resources throughout a MAT

Stephen Mitchell, Chief Executive, Keystone Knowledge

A focus on the potential for fraud within MATs and how to ensure the relevant structures and procedures are in place to prevent this

• The exponential growth of fraud towards schools
• The biggest threats
• Tips to reduce the risk in your schools

Ian Buss, Education Banking Consultancy