Schools, trusts, universities and unions

Parents already pay for this. Half of it could fund your books.

Families subscribe at the normal price. Eligible subscriptions can contribute to a named fund under your agreement. Contributions are reviewed quarterly; payment requires eligibility checks, settlement reconciliation and approval.

SCHOOLS · 50%

UNIVERSITIES & UNIONS · 35%

NOTHING TO PAY US

Secondary school students working together on a planting project outdoors

What a school fund pays for: the lessons, materials and trips that stopped being affordable.

Before anything else

What we will not claim.

We are not telling you this improves concentration, behaviour or attainment. We have no evidence for that and we will not imply it. What we are saying is narrower and checkable: parents already pay for something like this, and if they pay for it through you, a named fund gets money it did not have — for cover teaching, books, art materials, trips, a night bus, exam-week breakfast. Whatever your gap actually is.

And one thing we will not do at all: no individual employee ever receives any benefit for a sign-up. Not a voucher, not a gift, not a target. The money goes to the institution, and that is a clause in the agreement rather than an assurance.

Which route Trusts & boards Get started

Four routes, and they work differently.

Two are self-serve and you can start now. Two go through a person, and the reason is worth reading rather than assuming it is sales friction.

Students’ union

SELF-SERVE

Start your registration

Start with your work email. Organisation and signatory checks come before access; the invitation explains the next steps. Officer handover follows a separate verified process.

Share: 35% of net Individual proceeds

Employer or wellbeing platform

SELF-SERVE

Same setup, different share

Register your organisation for review. Access, reporting and distribution terms depend on the approved sector agreement; a shared email domain does not grant access.

Share: Employers: 25% of eligible Individual net proceeds; platforms: agreed terms. Funded seats carry no share.

University

THROUGH A PERSON

Because you will want the pack

A university wants a contract, a data-protection assessment, an accessibility statement and a security questionnaire. Self-serving that would only mean you asked for all of it afterwards.

Share: 35%, or funded seats with no share

Request the pack

School or trust

THROUGH A PERSON

Because of children

A form cannot establish safeguarding posture, who can bind the school, or data-protection responsibility. So a school route goes through a named contact and a written agreement. This is not sales friction.

Share: 50% of net Family proceeds

Trusts, boards and groups · the fastest route

One agreement, every school.

If you run a multi-academy trust or a school group, sign once and add each school by schedule. Every school keeps its own code and its own fund — we do not pool them, because a head needs to be able to say what this paid for at their school.

One agreement

Signed at trust level, with a schedule per school. A school joining next year is added by schedule rather than renegotiation.

A code per school

Never one for the trust. A pooled code pools the money, and then every head asks which part was theirs.

Roll-up and detail

Authorised trust staff see their permitted schools and funds. School staff see only their assigned site. No portal shows individual pupil activity.

Floors stay local

The agreed minimum reporting group is applied per school, not pooled across the trust. Children’s activity is excluded at every group size.

Why this is the better conversation: a school needs a data-protection assessment and a safeguarding review before it can take part. Done once at trust level, those cover every school beneath you — which turns the slowest part of this into a one-off rather than something each head repeats.

Step one

Tell us who you are.

Use this form to start your request. What happens next depends on your organisation: access is verified, and school partnerships require a named contact, the completed assessments and a written agreement.

What you do not need

The standard partner route has no licence fee; optional services follow their agreed terms

Any procurement and assurance requirements are agreed with your organisation

No lease, rates bill or proof of occupancy

No minimum size, and no minimum term

No IT installation — nothing runs on your network or your devices

Schools: what you will never see

No individual pupil, ever. And no class, year-group or form breakdown at all — a form group is small enough to identify a child by elimination. You see the fund records your role permits. Any eligible adult aggregate reporting must meet the agreed minimum group size and release checks. Children’s activity is never included, whatever the size of the school.

When you can start

Unions and universities: December 2026. Schools and trusts follow, and the honest reason is that a school route needs a data-protection assessment and a safeguarding review finished first. We are not onboarding a single school before both exist — register now and you are first in the queue.

During signup, step 2

We tell you before you sign, not after.

The moment you enter your campus, we check whether the other body on it has already joined — and show you your actual rate on screen before you agree to anything. Nobody finds out their share is 20% rather than 35% from a statement three months later.

WHAT YOU SEE IF NOBODY ELSE HAS

You are first here. Your share is 35%.

If Leeds Beckett University joins later, both of you move to 20% from the following quarter. We will write to you before that happens — never retrospectively, and never as a surprise on a statement.

WHAT YOU SEE IF THEY ALREADY HAVE

ALREADY ON THIS CAMPUS

Leeds Beckett Students’ Union joined in March. Your share is 20%.

They are on 20% too — theirs drops from 35% the quarter you go live, and they have been told. Between you, 40% of net comes back to this campus.

What we will not do

Tell you who the named contact is, what they earn, or anything from their statement. You learn that they exist and what it means for your rate. Nothing else.

If you would rather not

You can stop at that screen and nothing is created. Better you decide knowing the number than sign and feel misled — and the offer stays open if you change your mind.

Talk to each other

Two bodies promoting the same thing to the same students works far better than one. 40% coming back to one campus is a bigger number to put in front of a committee than 35% split by nobody.

If you share a campus

One of you gets 35%. Both of you get 20% each.

A students’ union and its university can both sign up, and both get paid. Whoever signs alone receives 35% of net proceeds. If both sign, each receives 20% — so our total goes up, not down, and neither of you is penalised for the other joining.

UNION ALONE

35%

Of net proceeds from every member who joins with your code.

UNIVERSITY ALONE

35%

Same rate. Into a named programme you choose and report on.

BOTH, SAME CAMPUS

20% each

40% leaves us in total — more than either of you alone would have cost. Deliberate: it is what makes working together worth doing.

Halls of residence.

If a hall is managed separately, with its own budget holder, it gets its own code and its own fund — treated exactly like any private student accommodation. If it is run centrally by the university, it forms part of the university’s single fund, with hall-level reporting where the numbers are large enough to report safely.

Our advice, and it costs us more: if a hall has its own budget holder, give it its own fund. A warden who can point at what the money paid for will tell residents about it. The same hall inside a central fund gets mentioned by nobody, because nobody local benefits.

One subscription is only ever counted once. If a resident is attributed to a separately funded hall, that same subscription does not also accrue to the university — and if a second body on your campus signs up later, we write to both of you before any rate changes, and the change applies from the next quarter rather than retrospectively.