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Avocet Multi Academy Trust
Why the Trust decided to go cashless. More and more schools across the UK are joining Multi Academy Trusts. Schools are seeing the benefits of working closely together towards a shared goal. Many MATs have the shared processes and systems to gain efficiencies. This is the case for the Avocet Multi Academy Trust. Zoe Stewart, the Trust Finance Officer explains why they made the move to online payments.
20 July 2018The Cottesloe Secondary School
The Cottesloe School went cashless. We asked Sonya Amor Marshall, School Business Manager from The Cottesloe School, in Bedfordshire (Buckinghamshire LA) why they made the move to cashless, and how they’ve made such a success of the conversion. Sonya explains: “ParentPay was already in place when I joined the school, which was originally implemented by our caterers to collect the school meal income.”
20 July 2018Chelsea Academy
Why Chelsea Academy went cashless. Lucian Boyd Harte, Director of Finance and Operations at Chelsea Academy in London, provides an insight into his experience of becoming cashless: “Having introduced ParentPay at my previous school, I was aware of how we could use the system to our full advantage. When I joined Chelsea Academy, ParentPay was already in place, but the Academy was not using it to its full potential to maximise efficiency, not only for the school, but for our students and parents too.”
14 June 2018Llangynidr Community Primary School
Powys school on going cashless. More and more schools across the country are making the decision to collect payments online from parents, taking the headache out of collecting and counting all that loose change. We hear what one Powys school thinks of collecting payments online. Llangynidr Community Primary School made the move to become a cashless school, and have achieved an impressive 97% activation rate. Akemi Cuthbertson-Smith, School Secretary at Llangynidr outlines how their school has benefitted from having an online payment system.