SCEMES' Services for Businesses

SCEMES provides you with direct access to your target audience of educational purchasers and offers you a unique platform from which to advertise your services to the educational marketplace.

Due to major changes in the education market over the last few years, schools have more control over their own budgets now than ever before. The changes have brought a great deal of benefits to individual schools and a dramatic increase in business opportunities for local and national companies alike.

Schools now have complete freedom to choose their own suppliers and to source Best Value products and services from companies that they can trust. In addition, they have more money to spend thanks to a governmental investment of £4.9bn in school refurbishment between 2005 and 2020.

SCEMES’ mission over the past nine years has been to create a definitive point of reference for all buyers and decision makers within the education sector.

Our Headteachers and Bursars Handbooks and the accompanying online database, SCEMES Online, are now widely accepted as the number one resource for educational purchasing and are used by over 5,000 companies advertising their services to education.

Over the past six years, the Handbooks have become well established as trusted titles that are widely used by the sector’s key decision makers. Their readership includes Headteachers, University and College Principles, Bursars and Financial Directors, whose high regard for the Handbooks and loyalty to the companies contained therein, mean that SCEMES is able to ensure that our readership becomes your customer base.

Why advertise with SCEMES?

• The Headteachers and Bursars Handbooks have the largest educational circulation in the country

• They are circulated, free of charge, to 32,000 schools and colleges bi-annually each year

• The Headteachers and Bursars Handbooks are the only comprehensive directories compiled for educational marketplace

• SCEMES Online contains a database of nearly 6,000 suppliers and is updated with new suppliers daily

• The Headteachers and Bursars Handbooks are glossy, professionally designed, full-colour publications.

• The Handbooks are divided into regional and national sections, ensuring that you reach your preferred target audience.

What do I get when I advertise with SCEMES?

• An entry into either the Handbook of Procurement or the Handbook of Sustainable Procurement, which are circulated to over 32,000 schools

• A Free entry onto SCEMES online, a searchable online database of suppliers that is regularly accessed by schools.

• A Free dedicated webpage for your company on SCEMES Online, which is fully editable to include your company logo, company information, images of your products and much more.

• Free notifications of tenders from the educational marketplace, specifically tailored to be appropriate to your business or location.

• A free bi-monthly newsletter detailing developments from within the educational marketplace, informing you of news from SCEMES and updating you on business opportunities in your region.

• Full support with creating the artwork for your advert and creating your company page on SCEMES Online.

• Numerous options to upgrade your advert and make your company stand out above the competition, including colour options, half-page options and even exclusive sponsorship of your chosen region.

• The opportunity to quote for work with schools using our free E-Quote facility, which allows school purchasers to request quotes for a particular product or service that they require.

What our customers say…

“We are impressed with the service we are receiving, and the number of opportunities that are coming our way - keeping us very busy!!”

Tim Townsend, Marketing & Tenders Executive, Andron Contract Services Ltd

“We would recommend SCEMES to anybody who wishes to do business with Schools, Colleges and Universities as we have found it very successful. Thank you for your professionalism in all matters and I will look forward to another prosperous year together.”

Mrs M Randell, Safetyboss Ltd

“We have been delighted with the instant terrific response to our advertisement about our recycling DVD for young children. We have also been very impressed with the helpfulness, professionalism and expertise of the SCEMES team.”

Linda, Childs Eye Media

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