Company of the Year (less than £3m)
The CREATE Education Project supports educators in bringing additive manufacturing technologies to young people, giving them industry skills to succeed in a rapidly expanding high-quality careers market. We sell 3D printers into education and support educators through training, workshops, resources and free lifetime technical support.
We encourage accessibility to career-defining technology through:
Free Resources: To help educators to use 3D printing technology to increase engagement and attainment.
Access to Technology: We operate a loan scheme allowing educational institutions to borrow 3D printers and other technology, as well as selling technology.
CPD, Training and Student Workshops: Our training solution includes Technical and Software Training and Curriculum CPD. CPD courses are bespoke to each organisation. We also deliver 3D printing cross-curricular STEAM workshops.
At CREATE Education we actively collaborate with our education customers to provide a tailored solution that meets their unique needs. We provide all the ongoing support they require both to get started and to embed the technology across the organisation.
Our mission is to support the adoption of 3D printing in education and provide outstanding customer care.
CreativeHUT’s mission is to remove barriers by providing access to quality resources and building confidence in educators to develop STEAM skills for all.
CreativeHUT is a full-service STEAM resources provider for the education sector, delivering training, workshops and the provision of state-of-the-art creative learning spaces. Experts in the development of 21st-century skills from early years all the way through to higher and further education. Working with partners including Premier League Football Clubs, Nissan and Google.
In 2022 we inspired over 15,000 students to build exciting futures through our workshops. We opened five learning centres providing access for 750+ of the most deprived schools in the UK to the most cutting-edge resources, including LEGO® Education, Makeblock and Sphero. Delivering a 150% increase in web sales YOY, a 412% increase in demand for our services, and finally working with not one but two England goalkeepers to deliver coding workshops to inner-city schools!
Edurio advances evidence-informed leadership within English schools. We measure things that are difficult to track but vital to understand, removing barriers to high-quality education. We do this at a national level: highlighting comparative strengths and areas for improvement for our customers, and producing national analysis to drive important discussions across the sector.
Through value-driven marketing and thought leadership, Edurio acts as a trusted partner to the sector, from before a school or trust becomes a customer, all the way through their journey with Edurio, and beyond in sector-wide development initiatives.
As a team of 30 colleagues dispersed across the UK and Latvia and with a focus on outcomes not presenteeism, we have built a strong organisational culture proving that geography doesn’t matter, people do.
Fiction Express is an award-winning literacy resource designed to improve all areas of literacy: reading; writing; spelling, punctuation & grammar; and speaking & listening. The resource improves poor reading habits by getting children excited about reading through the power of a deeply engaging experience of co-creation between pupils and authors.
Fiction Express is offering teachers a unique and complete literacy solution:
- Covering all four aspects of literacy in line with the curriculum
• Easy to integrate into lesson planning
• Continuous assessment, monitoring learning outcomes and progress
• High level of pupil motivation and personalised, cross-curricular learning paths
• Great value for money, 80% (or more) cheaper than a similar amount of paper books (cost per pupil)
We publish our stories in weekly instalments; each week, pupils read the chapter and, at the end, are rewarded with the option to vote to decide what happens next. The author then writes the following chapter in real time.
Pupils also interact with the author and other readers worldwide on the online book forum to actively participate in the creative story-writing process. Outstanding and original pupil contributions are rewarded with certificates by our editorial team.
iAM Compliant is a comprehensive and affordable web-based compliance tool built specifically for schools. It’s been designed to help you with the everyday management of your school’s estate, health and safety, statutory reporting, staff training and more. You can manage your assets, create and record building condition reports, monitor your energy usage, forecast your budget, track your DfE policy compliance, produce governor reports, and manage your risks and incidents. Forget the endless spreadsheets and juggling of constant tasks, iAM streamlines all your compliance and estates management in one simple and cost-effective tool.
Unlike many other systems available, iAM has been created to be as simple as possible to use, with straightforward set-up and free onboarding with the team so schools can manage their compliance right away. Even if wider support is required by large MATs, the team is there every step of the way at no extra charge. The app is fully inclusive so that you don’t need to purchase individual expensive modules or additional systems – it’s a one-stop compliance shop if you will! iAM’s ethos is about sharing knowledge, experience and advice so schools can remain compliant and safe in the easiest and most affordable way.
South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) is a not-for-profit charity with only a small team of 30 people based in the south west of the UK. Our work over the past two decades has brought online safety awareness towards a global audience, ensuring everyone can benefit from technology free from harm. The charity’s work has seen ground-breaking steps towards protecting victims of online harm as well as advising schools, public bodies and world-leading industries around correct practice and policy for keeping children and young people safe online.
SWGfL started by ensuring schools could have a safer internet connection with the appropriate filtering and monitoring in place, protecting them against harmful material such as terrorist content and child abuse. Since then, they have evolved to become a partner in the UK Safer Internet Centre and have incorporated numerous helplines and support services to protect victims of intimate image abuse and other online harms. SWGfL provide support for professionals who work with children and young people and provide essential online safety training around the world along with innovative online safety tools and products.
Sparx Learning is an evidence-led and data-driven education organisation which is aiming to improve life outcomes for more than 5 million learners by 2030. Our initial focus has been on improving life outcomes through improved numeracy and with our portfolio of products (SparxMaths, HegartyMaths, Numerise) we deliver maths to more than 1.8m learners in over 2,000 schools in the UK and in over 23 countries globally. We are absolutely not about technology replacing the teacher in the classroom; our aim is to support teachers and learners with appropriate technologies to improve outcomes and reduce teacher workload.
Teach Rex and it’s unique and engaging in-school workshops are certain to inspire pupils and support learning across the curriculum.
Each session transports children to a world of dinosaurs and dragons, enabling pupils to experience something truly magical. The newest experience, Gorillas-Our World’, brings the rainforest to school and immerses children in the world around them.
