Our Partners
HEART Academies Trust is a non-profit charitable company located in Bedford. Our Trust was established with the purpose of assisting local schools in enhancing their educational standards and fostering a sense of continuity within the community.
At the core of our partnership is the aim to create a family of academies that serve as the heart of their respective communities, providing excellent education and improving the life prospects of all individuals. We highly value the dreams and aspirations of everyone within our community.
We firmly believe that every child can achieve success, both personally and academically, with the early and effective support of staff members who know and value them as unique individuals. We hold high expectations for all members of our schools, challenging and supporting children, young people, and professionals to reach their fullest potential.
By adopting a “stronger together” approach and fostering positive collaboration, each academy within our Trust celebrates their existing strengths while also providing opportunities for ongoing growth and improvement across all academies.
Despite becoming part of the Trust, each school retains its name and identity, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of children and families in the local community. The transition to academy status grants each school increased freedom and flexibility in its operations and resource allocation.
This newfound autonomy, coupled with the Trust’s support, allows schools to maintain and raise their standards while recognising and championing their dedicated staff members, whose commitment, stability, and expertise contribute to their ongoing success.
Cimple is a platform designed to simplify and streamline the procurement process for both buyers and suppliers. The current procurement process is complex and inefficient, leading to difficulties in understanding value for money and time-consuming bidding for suppliers. Cimple aims to solve these issues by providing a single solution accessible to all organisations, regardless of size or expertise.
Cimple is trusted by schools, multi-academy trusts, NHS trusts and local councils to deliver to their procurement needs helping to keep them compliant.
Cimple enables public sector buyers to run procurement activity for all of their spend, or for a small part of it. This includes the ability to access and run online competitions off of central frameworks and to also set up Dynamic Purchasing Systems/Dynamic Markets.
Social Value UK is the professional body for social value and impact management in the United Kingdom. Their vision is for every organisation to make decisions informed by their social impacts. They provide training on measuring social value and using the data to make responsive decisions.
Social Value UK fosters collaboration between organisations and various providers to embed their eight principles of social value into practice. They assure reports and empower organisations to create more sustainable futures.
Social Value UK also advocates for considering social value over traditional financial means when assessing the worth of contracts. They lobby government and local authorities on behalf of their members. As a national network of Social Value International, they work to set the standards in social value practice.
Social Value is an understanding of value that goes beyond money and focuses on engaging people to understand the impact of decisions on their lives. Social Value UK emphasises outcomes over outputs and aims for organisations to create a net positive impact. They encourage measuring impacts and using that understanding to make better decisions for people.
Carbon Footprint Ltd is a leading provider of carbon and sustainability solutions for various types of organisations, from large corporations to small and medium enterprises and public sector entities. Their primary goal is to help track and reduce carbon emissions at the source and offset unavoidable emissions to achieve net zero carbon or carbon neutrality. By taking these actions, companies can protect the environment, improve their sustainability credentials, enhance their brands, engage stakeholders, and create better businesses to work for.
The company is committed to reducing carbon emissions and energy spend in businesses by offering recommendations and setting targets. They also challenge global industries to reduce emissions and have launched the Freedom Flight Prize, a competition aimed at achieving the first carbon-free flight across the Atlantic. Carbon Footprint Ltd is certified as ISO 14001:2015 for environmental commitment and carbon neutrality, and ISO 9001:2015 for quality. They are also founding members of the Quality Assurance Standard (QAS) for carbon offsetting.