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Professional communities for school business leaders, governors, headteachers and network managers. Each one is run independently by people who do the job — we only host them.

School business manager communities

Local, regional and specialist national groups for school business managers, business leaders and finance staff. Most meet termly, and each sets its own membership fee — follow the link to join.

Association of BAME Business Leaders in Educationmembers.abbled.org Association of Business Leaders in Educationable-member.co.uk Association of Business Leaders of Catholic Schoolsablocs.org Bedfordshire School Business Networkbeds.sbmnetwork.org.uk Berkshire SBM Groupberkshiresbm.org Birmingham Association of School Business Managementbasbm.org Camden SBM Hubcamden.sbmnetwork.org.uk Coast and Moors School Business Leaderscmsbl.org Cumbria Association of School Business Administration and Managementcasbam.org Dudley Association of School Business Managersdasbm.org Durham School Business Managers Groupdurham.sbmnetwork.org.uk GASBMgasbm.org Hertfordshire School Business Management Grouphasbm.org Humber and East Yorkshire School Business Leadersheysbl.org.uk ISBL Fellows Forumfellows.isbl.org.uk JEM School Business Forum — Cambridgeshirecsbn.co.uk JEM School Business Forum — Lincolnshirelsbmn.co.uk JEM School Business Forum — Peterboroughpsbm.co.uk Lancs SBM Hublancssbm.com Liverpool School Business Manager Associationlsbma.org Manchester and Trafford School Business Leader Forummanchester.sbmnetwork.org.uk MATExecmatexec.co.uk Merton Association of Business Leaders in Educationmertonable.org Oxfordshire Academies Business Managers Groupoabmg.co.uk Sandwell SBM Networksandwellbursars.org SASBMsasbm.org the School Business Forumsbforum.co.uk School Business Professional Network Leadersleaders.sbmnetworks.org Solihull Schools Business Managers Groupsolihullsbm.org South Gloucestershire School Business Leaderssgsbl.org.uk Tamworth and Lichfield SBM Networktandl.sbmnetwork.org.uk Telford Association of School Business Managerstasbm.org Uttlesford Schools Consortiumuttlesford.sbmnetwork.org.uk West Kent Bursars Groupwestkent.sbmnetwork.org.uk West Sussex School Business Managerswestsussexsbm.org Wigan School Business Management Groupwigan.sbmnetwork.org.uk Wiltshire SBL Networkwilts.sblnetwork.org.uk Worcestershire Association of School Business Managementwasbm.org

School leaders, governors and specialists

Communities for people whose job is not school business management but who need the same thing from a professional community.

Individual school and trust governance portals are private to their own boards, so they are not listed here.

Nothing near you?

That is how most of the communities above started — one person who could not find the group they wanted and decided to run it instead. The platform is free, and everything you would otherwise have to write yourself is already written.

See what starting one involves