We are thrilled to announce that the Simon Cole Sports Centre at Manor High School in Oadby has been named a finalist in the prestigious Medium Non-Residential Scheme of the Year category at the ProCon Leicestershire Awards 2025!
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The Department for Education (DfE) has opened applications for the School-based Nursery (SBN) Capital Grant, a funding programme designed to help primary schools and maintained nursery schools expand or create new nursery places. Backed by £45 million, this phase of funding will support at least 300 new or expanded school-based nurseries for the 2026–27 academic year.
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We’re proud to support Active Together’s Young People Hardship Fund, which provides grants to enable students to access sport and physical activity. By championing initiatives that foster healthy lifestyles both within and outside the school environment, we aim to give every child the opportunity to learn a life skill such as swimming and develop a healthy mind and body.
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The government has announced a £740 million fund to help mainstream schools adapt so that they can provide places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The initiative aims to alleviate the overwhelming demand for places in state special schools by enabling more children with SEND to stay in mainstream schools closer to home.
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Last month the government launched the School-Based Nursery Capital Grant which is a one-time grant available for eligible state-funded primary schools. Schools can bid for up to £150,000 of funding to use solely for capital expenditure, to convert surplus space within a school building so that it is suitable for nursery provision, from a total funding pot of £15 million.
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The latest round of the Condition Improvement Fund for 2025-2026 is now open, offering schools, academies and colleges the opportunity to obtain important funding for building improvements.
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If you are an expanding school looking to develop a new sports hall, Surveyors to Education has the expertise to help. We offer a cost-effective end-to-end service, delivering high quality sports facilities to improve your pupils’ environment fast.
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The latest Spring Budget shows a relatively unchanged financial landscape with little change to public spending levels. Despite the spotlight on safety concerns surrounding the school estate, following school closures over Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), budget documents reveal a reduction in this year’s capital spending.
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Surveyors to Education are delighted to be exhibiting at the CST Trust Finance and Operations Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday 6 February. We invite trust leaders and those involved in managing school estates to visit us on stand 11 and learn how we can assist your school or multi-academy trust.
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A recent evaluation by the Department for Education of the Capital Advisers Programme, has provided important insights into the state of school buildings in the education sector.
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The Autumn Statement revealed higher-than-expected tax revenues, caused mainly by inflation pushing more people into higher tax thresholds, and provided the government with an unexpected 'windfall' as termed by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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The Government has set out it’s spending measures in the Spring Budget. Whilst there were a number of commitments targeted specifically at education, the lack of any new funding for schools has left many dissapointed that more is not being done to tackle the pressures on schools.
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Support to reduce school energy bills is to be scaled back – but other Government help remains available for those who put in a winning bid.
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Hundreds of schools and academies have won funding in the Government’s flagship rebuilding scheme.
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Devolved Formula Capital (DFC) is allocated for individual schools and other eligible institutions to spend on capital projects that meet their own priorities.
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Schools and colleges are to receive £500 million of extra capital funding to improve energy efficiency, the Government has announced.
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Schools will receive an extra £2.3 billion in each of the next two years, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the Autumn Statement, in what he called a “thank you” for the sector’s “brilliant work”.
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Applications are open for the latest round of T Level capital funding – a funding stream specifically for post-16 institutions that missed out on extra cash for education in the Autumn Statement.
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We have produced a ebook guide on how to decarbonise your school estate which looks at the many ways academies and MATs can help protect the environment and help fight climate change by finding renewable and cost-effective solutions to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.
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Since the Government launched T Levels in 2020, more than £300 million has been made available for providers to deliver their courses and make necessary improvements to their estates.
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