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Congratulations Make Consulting!

Congratulations Make Consulting!

Make Consulting are delighted to have successfully maintained our ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications, following external audits from Citation, a renowned standards company. We take pride in holding ISO accreditations for over six years, and we are continuously striving...

Congratulations Adam!

Congratulations Adam!

Congratulations Adam on passing your APC! Congratulations Adam on passing your APC to become a Chartered Building Surveyor. We are so pleased we could support you through this process, you fully deserve your success. Well Done Adam! Make Consulting boast a 100%...

Good Estate Guide for Schools (GEMS)

Good Estate Guide for Schools (GEMS)

This document provides digested, best practice guidance for Academies on; Estate Management policies and procedures, Strategic Asset management, Health and Safety, Compliance and Maintenance. GEMS seeks to ensure that Trusts have plans in place so that: Land and...

Making the Best of Your Assets

Making the Best of Your Assets

I have long appreciated that when school professionals begin their careers, the last thing on their mind is management and development of their school estate. Instead, they’re motivated to nurture young minds and help pupils achieve their full potential. They learn...

Make Consulting Renew Cricket Club Sponsorship

Make Consulting Renew Cricket Club Sponsorship

Mansfield Hosiery Mills is one of the leading cricket clubs in Nottinghamshire and is accredited by Sport England in their Clubmark scheme. The cricket club is a family club, offering opportunities for people of all abilities to develop their own cricketing skills....

Is Your Trust Meeting Statutory and Insurance Requirements?

Is Your Trust Meeting Statutory and Insurance Requirements?

An RAG report is produced that equips the school with an internal audit and an external review of where the trust is and is not, meeting statutory and insurance requirements. Actions are assigned to one of Site Manager, School Business Manager or Finance Director. The...

ESFA Good Estate Management for Schools Guide

ESFA Good Estate Management for Schools Guide

Click here to read the GEMS guide. Make Consulting are proud to have been commended by the ESFA after their Asset Management presentation at last week’s Academies Show. Make and David Irish of the Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust, provided delegates with an insight...

Make Consulting at the Academies Show

Make Consulting at the Academies Show

The show is the sector’s largest conference, bringing together over 3,000 attendees and 200 leading education suppliers to support school business management, teaching quality and pupil outcomes. Make’s stand recorded over 100 visitors from delegates and attendees who...

Make Consulting Exhibiting and Talking at The Academies Show

Make Consulting Exhibiting and Talking at The Academies Show

The presentation will consider how Multi-Academy Trusts centrally manage their multiple built assets and how life cycle strategies can be developed across a MATs entire portfolio. This presentation has been developed in conjunction with the Shireland Collegiate...

Why Every Asset Management Plan is Premised on the Condition Survey

Why Every Asset Management Plan is Premised on the Condition Survey

The sheer volume of surveys, reports, assessments and records to audit and maintain is a job in itself and if there are different service providers operating across individual school sites the numbers really accumulate. The most important and useful of all surveys, is...