Advertise Your Business | Commercial Supporters

Schools North East is the glue that keeps our region’s schools together. We are here to give you a voice and provide a bridge between schools and policymakers.

As a charity, without our dedicated Commercial Supporters, none of this would be possible.

Advertise your business with our Commercial Supporter Membership, designed for organisations that provide advice, goods, or services to our schools. Due to the many and diverse pressures on our school leaders’ time, they are a notoriously difficult clientele to reach through conventional channels.

Becoming a Commercial Supporter offers a unique opportunity for you to connect with large numbers of educational decision makers in the North East. As one example, our events have an average attendance figure of 3,500 each year. This provides you with a great opportunity to build your profile, gain invaluable market intelligence, showcase your successes, and most importantly, support the North East’s schools and young people.

The Schools North East network consists of all 1,150 schools in the North East region. Regardless of size, phase, or academy status, all schools in the North East are part of our network. We exist to support schools in their entirety; our main stakeholders are CEOs, CFO, COO, Head Teachers, School Business Managers, Teachers and Governors. To further support this, we hold a range of conferences and events throughout the year.

We are also the power behind The National Network of Special Schools for School Business Professionals, which has over 300 members across the country.

As a Schools North East Commercial Supporter, above all you will be supporting the region’s schools and young people.

Benefits

As a Commercial Supporter you will be showing your commitment to the vision of North East schools. In return you will benefit from:

A unique platform to access hard-to-reach school leaders and decision makers (our events were attended by 3,500 delegates in 23/24)
Discounted opportunities for attending, exhibiting or sponsoring any of our annual or stand alone events
Priority bookings for our events
Speaker submissions for consideration at events
Discounted opportunity to sponsor the newsletter advertising your support, services or product.
Create your own profile on our Services for Schools page. Share your company successes through case studies and testimonials, advertise your support, services and products or promote special offers.
Access to your own dedicated dashboard on our website where you will see available opportunities, as well as events you have coming up and past events you have attended.
Advertise your own events or CPD opportunities for regional schools through our Events page. These event opportunities will be added to our monthly mailer updates reaching 8000 contacts (time dependent).
Receive regular insights throughout the year from network meetings with school leaders in the region to understand the latest challenges facing them.
A welcome introduction as a Commercial Supporter in our weekly newsletter with 6000 subscribers, on Twitter to our 8000 followers and on LinkedIn network.
Discounted sponsorship and exhibition opportunities with the National Network of Special Schools for School Business Professionals events, including the national conference in Birmingham (15 % discount off the Non Partner prices).
Numerous additional sponsorship opportunities with our webinar and podcast series, school communications and Jobs in Schools | North East platform.

Testimonials

“Always a pleasure working with you guys. It’s always genuinely humbling to be involved with SNE and makes me proud to be part of such a collaborative region… you really are doing something very special!” – Promote Your School

“We all want what’s best for the young people in the North East. We want their education experience to be positive, effective, uplifting and memorable. And we all want those involved in education to be happy. But wanting is not enough. We have to make it happen, together. The North East business community has an important role to play in supporting the next generation. Anything is possible when the right people do the right things.” – The Edwin Group

“I think it’s absolutely vital that the North East business community supports our educational sector, as ultimately we are providing support to the next generation of individuals that potentially could be joining our businesses and driving them forward. This is why we continue to provide support to Schools North East to assist. Whilst we have an opportunity to be present and involved, CMYK will continue to be an engaged supporter.” – CYMK

Exclusive Commercial Supporter Events

In January each year we host our annual Academies Conference for an audience of CEOs, CFOs and Head Teachers and similar job roles across the region. Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are limited to Commercial Supporters and allocated on a first come first served basis.

The prestigious Schools North East Patron’s Dinner is held in March each year. Bringing together 500 school leaders from our Partner Schools and Trusts, it is an evening of celebration to recognise the hard work and strength of our education community. Sponsored tables are available for Commercial Supporters.

Catherine McKinnell at the Academies Conference 2024

List your company on Services for Schools

As a commercial supporter your company is listed on our Services for Schools directory. This unique platform is for every school in our region, and beyond, to easily find products and services they require. You have full control of this and are able to upload special offers, testimonials and case studies along with documents and videos. Each week we take a selection to add to our newsletter.

You can also add your regional education events to the events section of our website, which is the go to page for anyone working in education to find events relating to their job role.

You will also have an exclusive dashboard to find information about your membership, available opportunities and a record of events you have previously attended.

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