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More and more Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) are turning to Fordingbridge to supercharge their school enhancement programmes, and they’re doing it across multiples sites at once. Why? Because when you’ve got bold upgrade plans, it pays to have a single expert team who just gets it – from design to delivery…
Bigger visions. Smarter partnerships. Fewer headaches: The Fordingbridge advantage
Rolling out site improvements across multiple schools at once can present real logistical and financial challenges. But with the right partner, delivering impressive transformation projects can be a seamless, joined-up journey. Here’s why MATs are making the smart switch to work with one expert supplier:
One Vision
No juggling multiple contacts or timelines. Just one expert team reporting back to your Trust, ensuring clarity, consistency and cohesion across every school site.
Built in trust
When we work across multiple sites, we get to know your Trust and team inside out. We gain an understanding of your unique goals, challenges and quirks. And this makes us faster, more flexible and better at anticipating and delivering what you need.
Smarter spending
With one finance team and one procurement process budgeting becomes easier and cost efficiencies naturally flow. Fewer deliveries. Lower transport costs. Streamlined admin. It’s a win all round.
Greener projects
If you use one UK-based manufacturer (like us!) you’ll enable fewer vehicle movements, reduced carbon emissions, and a lower environmental impact. Great for meeting your Trust’s sustainability goals, and for your protecting your students’ futures.
Better timing = less disruption
When we work across multiple sites in a single Trust, we can work with you to phase construction so upgrades slot smoothly into holiday schedules or times when they’ll cause least disruption to daily school life.
A MAT that has discovered the benefits of single supplier relationships
The White Horse Federation is a multi-academy trust of over 30+ primary schools, secondary schools and special schools based in Swindon, and is currently one of the largest MATS in the South of England.
Over the summer holiday we worked with the MAT to deliver two exciting enhancement projects. At Forest & Sandridge School in Melksham we transformed an underused area of the school’s site into a flexible new outdoor learning space with a 3m x 10m all-weather canopy. While at Melksham Oak Community School we created a 10m x 17m taper trellis canopy covering a new all-weather dining area – now the heart of daily school life.
Ready to transform your Trust?
If you’re a MAT with ambitious upgrade plans for 2026, why not take the stress out of multi-site planning and partner with experts in educational space enhancement?
Our experienced and friendly education team offers free site visits and tailored proposals to help you imagine what’s possible for the schools in your Trust.
Let’s talk! Get in touch today…
