Why partner with GSA?
GSA represents more than 140 of the UK’s leading independent girls’ schools.
GSA schools range from the highly-selective to local community schools, including both day and boarding. Some cater for 100% girls, others provide a predominantly girls-only environment with boys in the nursery and/or sixth form.
Exhibiting at GSA Conferences and Events provides companies with an opportunity to introduce new products and services, generate new business, and strengthen existing customer relationships. Most delegates at GSA events and conferences will have significant responsibility for designated school decisions.
Who Partners with GSA?
GSA has long-standing relationships with a number of suppliers but, equally, we are always keen to welcome support and involvement from new companies.
Services and products offered by companies exhibiting at the GSA Annual Conference include:
- Management Information Systems
- School uniforms
- Catering services
- Expeditions
- Photography
- Marketing
- Educational software and mobile apps
- Executive search and recruitment
Event Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities
Applications for our Conference for Heads are now open here.
The GSA Conference for Heads 2023 will take place from Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 November 2023 at the De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel. This Conference is the flagship event in the Association’s calendar and brings together Heads from across GSA’s membership. It attracts upwards of 140 delegates each year, as well as invited guests from across the independent and state sectors.
There is a wide range of opportunities for supporting the event, from sponsorship, to having a stand in the exhibition, or simply attending the public sessions as a corporate delegate.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions of ways in which you would like to participate, please contact us at [email protected]
Applications for our Conference for Deputy Heads and Senior Leaders will open in December 2023.
The Conference for Deputy Heads & Senior Leaders will take place on Wednesday 1 -Thursday 2 May 2024 at Leicester Marriott Hotel, Leicester.
The Conference for Deputy Heads & Senior Leaders is a popular annual event which brings together senior staff from across GSA’s membership.
The composition of Senior Leadership Teams varies from school to school but, in most cases, will comprise a Deputy Head Academic, Deputy Head Pastoral, Director of Studies, and one or more Assistant Heads. These members of staff often have responsibility for areas such as data management, expeditions, resources, IT software, extra-curricular activities, etc.
Exhibiting at the Conference provides companies with the opportunity to introduce their new products and services, generate new business, and develop existing customer relationships.
If you have any questions regarding the opportunities available or the application process, please contact us at [email protected].
The GSA/ HMC Junior Heads’ Conference will take place on Thursday 14 – Friday 15 March at Woodland Grange Hotel, Leamington Spa.
We do not have exhibitors at this event but have two Headline Sponsorships available, if this is something you would be interested to know more about please do contact us on [email protected].
Applications for our Summer Briefing will open in January 2024.
The Summer Briefing is a popular annual event which brings together our GSA members. It attracts upwards of 110 delegates per year, and we always aim to grow attendance.
Exhibiting at the Conference provides companies with an opportunity to introduce new products and services, generate new business, and strengthen existing customer relationships. Most delegates at GSA events and conferences will have significant responsibility for designated school decisions.
The GSA Summer Briefing 2024 will take place on Monday 17 June at BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP.
The Conference will bring together Heads, Governors and senior leaders from GSA schools, providing key updates in education. It will provide opportunity for members to share ideas and discuss the areas which are most pressing for our schools.
Adobe - TA Education
IT Software
Adobe - TA Education
Adobe Express for Education is a suite of cloud-based creative applications offered for FREE to UK schools. Express provides teachers and students with everything they need to confidently create standout graphics, photos, presentations, web pages, and videos — tools to support every subject. TA Education (Tablet Academy) are supporting Adobe to introduce Express to UK Schools providing free technical support, teacher training and creativity workshops for students. See Adobe Express - TA Education to find out more.
- https://ta.education/
- 07540705010
- [email protected]
Anthony Millard Consulting
Recruitment
Anthony Millard Consulting
Anthony Millard Consulting (AMC) is a leading educational consultancy firm. Established in 2004 to provide the education sector, both in the UK and internationally, with first class recruitment solutions and strategic consultancy.
Our purpose is to support excellence in education. We manage the search and selection of educational leaders and provide advice on all strategic aspects, offering inspiration, challenge and empowerment to schools at each stage of their journey to excellence.
By focusing on our core strengths, we believe we retain uniqueness. Each member of our team of Directors and Associates has substantial, practical experience of educational leadership and, between us, our range of experience is as broad as it is deep.
We make absolutely certain that clients we work with receive a personal, tailored service and we never take on more assignments than we can handle – every client we work with receives the full attention they deserve.
- www.anthonymillard.co.uk
- 0203 427 5414
- [email protected]
Bright Field Consulting
Coaching
Bright Field Consulting
Bright Field Consulting is now recognised as a global pioneer in coaching, mentoring and leadership development. Founded in 2013 it now works with schools in Australasia, North America, Europe and Africa. Its Global Mentoring Networks for Aspiring Leaders and Students have enabled more than 200 women and a growing number of students to build their leadership confidence and competence. A new book, The Magic in the Space Beyond documents their latest work with studies of social media, mental health, curriculum development and pedagogy.
- www.brightfield-consulting.co.uk
- 07885668527
- [email protected]
Class Technology Solutions
ICT
Class Technology Solutions
Class Technology Solutions Limited (CTS) is an innovative Microsoft Gold Solutions Partner that provides managed IT support services and solutions exclusively to, and across the broad and complex terrain of, the UK education sector.
Founded in 2006, Class Technology solutions continues to go from strength to strength, demonstrating healthy, year-on-year growth in the independent sector. CTS now offers the Easy4U service and product proposition that takes care of school’s 1:1 (BYOD) device requirement, providing an on-line, school endorsed portal, for students, Parents and guardians, to rent or purchase outright a device which includes comprehensive warranty, servicing, software, and insurance.
- https://www.class-technology.co.uk/
- 01403212520
- [email protected]
Classlist
Parent Communication App
Classlist
Classlist is the world’s largest school parent community app, used by over 400,000 parents across 30 countries. A safer alternative to parents on WhatsApp, Classlist brings your new and existing parents together in an inclusive, secure and respectful way. Classlist is often managed by school parent associations, who use it to communicate; organise and ticket events; roster volunteers; run raffles; manage fundraising; liftshare and parent marketplace.
Social media presents schools with new inclusivity and legal risks. The Independent Schools Bursars’ Association (ISBA) have recently guided that schools examine alternatives to WhatsApp, specifically highlighting Classlist.
- www.classlist.com
- 07901 682219
- [email protected]
ClickView
Education Resources
ClickView
ClickView is an award-winning video resource platform, trusted by 100s of independent schools to provide the best education videos for learning and teaching.
• Highly engaging, curriculum-aligned video content and teacher resources
• Contextual on-demand TV
• Interactive question layers for formative assessment
ClickView is the highest rated video resource on EdTech Impact, rated on reducing teacher workload, improving teaching efficiency, building student knowledge, and improving attainment
- www.clickview.co.uk
- 0333 207 6595
- [email protected]
Engage
Management Information System
Engage
Engage, our award-winning School Management Information System, empowers over 620 leading independent and international schools spanning six continents. We are now a part of the 2200-school Education Horizons Group. 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 and our related products within EHG 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.
Engage – every day, we help schools succeed.
- https://engagesmis.com/
- 01935 40 30 20
- [email protected]
Envoplan
Interior Design
Envoplan
We design, build and fit beautiful yet intelligent learning environments that support your school’s vision, focusing on positively impacting lives through our design approach.
Our sister company, Noble+Eaton a specialist consulting group to improve standards and well-being through a well-designed learning environment.
- https://envoplan.co.uk/
- 020 8997 9656
- [email protected]
Gillman & Soame
Photographer
Gillman & Soame
Gillman & Soame are the pre-eminent, brand leading school photographers operating in the UK and overseas. In existence since 1856, we work with the country’s top schools and are proud to count many leading grammar schools as customers.
We take more large Complete School groups than any other company in the UK. We have British Design Council award winning staging with method statement, risk assessment, public liability insurance and data protection policy all in place.
We offer the complete photographic service to schools nationwide:
• School Name and crest on school portraits - Parents are really proud of the fact that their children go to your school so we offer a very special product that includes your school name. This is unique to Gillman & Soame. We also offer the normal portraiture options as standard to all customers.
• Groups of up to 1,800 staff and pupils - Complete School and House Groups. Not just letter box format but featuring the school building too if desired. Taken as one photograph not stitched together!
• Sports Groups - As part of a planned programme of photography, we will undertake seasonal Sports Group photography.
• Imagebank - A unique service whereby your images are archived and stored by Gillman & Soame off your servers thereby freeing up valuable space.
• SIMS / iSAMS compatible - Names to Faces database, which enables images to be automatically dropped into your pupil database system. Compatible with other systems too.
• Creative services - Photography and video for websites and brochures a speciality.
• Variety of ordering methods - Online / phone / post / into school.
Gillman & Soame - one point of contact with everything under one roof!
- http://www.gillmanandsoame.co.uk
- 01869 328 200
- [email protected]
Harrison Catering Services
Catering
Harrison Catering Services
Founded in 1994 by Geoffrey Harrison, Harrison Catering Services is an independent, family-owned company providing contract catering to clients across the UK. Harrison’s ‘food with thought’ proposition is centred around the on-site preparation and cooking of top-quality meals made with fresh ingredients.
Harrison understands that every client is unique. Working in partnership, we create an individual catering service that meets and exceeds each client’s needs and aspirations, ensuring that customers receive an exceptional service.
- https://www.harrisoncatering.co.uk
- 0184 421 6777
- [email protected]
Interactive Schools
Marketing Communications Agency
Interactive Schools
The world’s leading strategic marketing communications agency for independent and international schools.
We fill the intersection between Art and Science. We call it wonder. We put users first and craft incredible, immersive marketing experiences that blend creative magic, measurable engagement and tangible impact.
STRATEGY | WEBSITES | CREATIVE | SOCIAL MEDIA | TECHNOLOGY
- www.interactiveschools.com
- 01494630494
- [email protected]
iSAMS
Management Information System
iSAMS
iSAMS is the market-leading Management Information System (MIS) for Independent Schools, offering bespoke management of all academic, pastoral, administrative and financial information.
In 2021, we welcomed our 1,100th school to our growing community and established iSAMS as a true end-to-end solution for school management by adding HR, Payroll and Payment solutions to our portfolio. We now manage key school data for 700k+ students and many of the world’s most highly regarded Independent schools.
iSAMS clever web architecture creates a single database with an associated suite of portals and apps designed to bring together and engage the whole school community.
- www.isams.com
- 0160 465 9100
- [email protected]
Moore Kingston Smith
Accountant
Moore Kingston Smith
With over 30 years’ working with the education sector, we are one of the leading firms auditing and advising the sector. Regularly recognised for our work, we have been awarded numerous accolades such as top firm for overall service in the latest Charity Finance Audit Survey, out of the leading top 10 charity specialist firms in England – an accolade we have now attained for the last six years in a row.
Services include: Audit and accounts, Tax and VAT, Governance and Business advice, Strategy, Forecasting and Benchmarking, Digital transformation, HR consultancy, Financial sustainability, Impact reporting and Fundraising, GDPR and Cyber Security.
- www.mooreks.co.uk
- 02075664000
- [email protected]
My School Portal
Management Information System
My School Portal
Access offers a range of core business management and intelligence solutions that can be used independently in any organisation, or integrated with sector specific solutions. My School Portal, an Access company, is a single and secure platform that collates and displays all student information in one place.
- www.theaccessgroup.com
- 0845 345 3300
- [email protected]
Perry Uniform
Uniform Supplier
Perry Uniform
Perry is a leading online school uniform and sports kit supplier; we work alongside schools to deliver distinctive uniforms and high-performance sports kit with an exceptional service to parents. Providing a truly integrated and multi-channel shopping service, parents have the convenience of online shopping supported by in-school fitting events, showrooms, and school shops.
- https://www.perryuniform.co.uk/schools
- 0113 2389520
- [email protected]
Rafan House Harley Street
Psychotherapeutic
Rafan House Harley Street
Rafan House is a clinically-governed psychotherapeutic clinic based in Harley Street. We offer specialised and discreet conversations with individuals, children, families and organisations who are seeking help with the demands of 21st century life. We also offer safeguarding and staff wellbeing workshops for schools.
- www.rafanhouse.com
- 02035429935
- [email protected]
Saxton Bamfylde
Recruitment
Saxton Bamfylde
Saxton Bampfylde is a recognised leader in education, advising on leadership appointments in the sector for over 35 years. Our team is dedicated to guiding you through a clear, effective, and collaborative process to appoint the right candidate for your school. As a firm we have successfully completed over 200 appointments since March 2020 and are proud of our 98% success rate. We work with independent schools, MATs, international schools, SEND organisations, education charities, and education regulators to appoint Heads, CEOs, Principals, Bursars, Directors of Finance and Operations, Chairs, Governors, Directors of People, Deputy Heads, Heads of Junior/Prep School, Specialist Programme Directors, and more.
- https://www.saxbam.com/
- 07818015615
- [email protected]
Schoolblazer
Uniform Supplier
Schoolblazer
Schoolblazer are the UK’s leading supplier of uniform and sportswear to independent schools, with a deep commitment to sustainability and fair trade. We are online experts, focussed on providing design and product innovation to our schools, including bespoke, modern tailoring and high-performance sportswear. We deliver shopping convenience for our parents, with free name-taping and Intelligent Sizing.
- www.schoolblazer.com
- 01832 280011
- [email protected]
SDS Group
Archive Management
SDS Group
SDS are Experts in Managing School Archives – working with 300+ UK independent schools.
For 25 years, SDS Group (School Records & Heritage) have offered bespoke digitising & detailed indexing services to Schools - scanning Heritage Archives (magazines, photographs) & Admin Records (Pupil Leaver Files, HR, Bursar), Maps/Deeds/Large Format Plans, O&M files & Governor’s Minutes.
Access the scanned records via secure (username/password), bespoke online websites - styled within the School’s corporate identity. Admin Benefits – improves efficiencies for Inspections, Audits, H&S and inquiry responses.
Celebrate your School’s Heritage. Reconnect, create and keep live your relationships with the Alumni by sharing these digitised resources online. Reach out to overseas alumni with nostalgic documents scanned from their time at school.
Annual Conference 2021 Exhibitor
SOCS
Management Information System
SOCS
With over 900 schools using SOCS sport, co-curricular, calendar and music modules, SOCS has a growing presence in the UK and across the world. Our clients include for example Millfield, Wellington College and Whitgift. The SOCS team are passionate about working with schools to tackle the challenges related to managing and communicating co-curricular, sport and tuition activities. The products have been developed in close collaboration with SOCS customers.
- www.misocs.com
- 03302231876
- [email protected]
STC Expeditions
School Trips
STC Expeditions
STC Expeditions is a leading school tour operator, delivering ethical educational adventures and school expeditions since 2006. As the only school travel company with the coveted Travelife ‘Excellence in Sustainability’ Certificate, we arrange responsible school trips and expeditions, including Fairtrade trips and ‘Women’s Perspective’ adventures designed specifically for girls’ schools. Talk to us about our carbon action plan, the carbon labelling of our school trips and our brand new UK adventure programme: The Bioasis, an immersive UK expedition programme, set in the year 2074. Students undertake secret missions to rewild themselves and have a positive impact on biodiversity and the environment.
- www.thestc.co.uk
- 01392 660056
- [email protected]
Succession Independent Schools
Financial Advisor
Succession Independent Schools
As one of the longest-running specialist teams in the UK, we are widely recognised as experts on the TPS, as well as providing consultancy services on a much larger range of financial and managerial issues. Our role as planners is to assist governors, senior leaders and staff to plan for the future.
Whether it’s helping staff gain a better understanding of their pension arrangements or assisting Governors and Bursars with complex consultation issues, our skill lies in translating the technical jargon into plain English.
• TPS consultation
• Presentations to Governors, academic & support staff
• 1:1 meetings
• Remuneration, Retirement and exit strategies
• Lifetime and annual allowance calculations
- www.successionwealth.co.uk
- 01296 394675
- [email protected]
The Stevenson Group
Uniform Supplier
The Stevenson Group
The Stevenson Group is an established independent school uniform and sportswear retailer.
We are specialists in garment design and sourcing, to meet every budget and specification.
Multichannel retail options including online shopping; high street shops, on-campus school shops; phone order hotline; pop-up shop events and direct wholesale supply.
- www.stevensons.co.uk
- 01727 815 700
- [email protected]
True Adventure
School Trips
True Adventure
Responsible, sustainable and dynamic school trips with purpose. We are working towards being certified carbon neutral by 2022 and offer projects that truly make a difference to peoples lives.
- www.true-adventure.co.uk
- 01730812742
- [email protected]
Unifrog
Higher Education Platform
Unifrog
Unifrog is the complete whole-school destinations platform.
Our mission is to level the playing field when it comes to students finding and applying successfully for the best opportunities for them. We want to revolutionise CEIAG so that every student - regardless of background - finds their best next step.
We bring all the available information into a single, impartial, user-friendly platform to help students make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications. We also empower teachers to manage the progression process effectively to make sure Unifrog has a genuine impact in each of the 2,500 schools we work with.
- www.unifrog.org/
- 020 3372 5991
- [email protected]
World Challenge
School Trips
World Challenge
We believe that overseas travel is one of the most empowering, life-altering forms of learning possible. We’re passionate about what we do and for over 30 years we have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of creating unique school trips that educate, enrich, and inspire the next generation.
These experiences complement school learning, giving students the opportunity
to become true life-learners and global citizens. It’s the kind of learning that students will carry with them long into the future, learning that can only come from experiencing this amazing planet and the unique cultures that inhabit it.
- www.weareworldchallenge.com
- 01494 427600
- [email protected]
Zeelo
Transport
Zeelo
Zeelo is the smart bus platform for schools. We are experts in providing safe, flexible, fully-managed home-to-school transport services to schools across the UK. We offer route planning and optimisation, online booking platforms, state of the art app and flexible ticket and payment solutions for parents. Our services are built on technology with live vehicle tracking, safety notifications for parents and 24/7 live customer support. Reduce parking and pollution around your school with a fully managed home-to-school transport service – we've saved our clients over 10,000 tonnes in CO2 emissions, that’s the equivalent of planting 476,059 trees.
- https://zeelo.co/schools
- 0330 808 3306
- [email protected]
