Experienced estates leadership for education.
Help for Schools is a specialist consultancy supporting schools and multi-academy trusts with estates, facilities, capital works, project management and health & safety.
Strategy when you need it. Delivery when it matters.
The business is built around practical estates leadership: understanding what an organisation needs, helping leaders make informed decisions, and supporting implementation rather than simply producing a report.
Help for Schools works across the whole estate lifecycle — strategy, assurance, procurement, facilities management, health & safety, design and capital projects.
- Senior experienceMore than 20 years of estates leadership, including seven years as Director of Estates and Facilities within a multi-academy trust.
- Education focusAdvice designed around the pressures, governance and operating realities of schools and trusts.
- Flexible modelSupport ranges from a focused review to ongoing executive estates leadership and project delivery.
- IndependentNo supplier or contractor ties. Recommendations are centred on your organisation’s requirements and value for money.
- The companyHelp for Schools is a trading name of Brown Consult Ltd, registered in England and Wales, based in Covent Garden, London.
How an engagement usually runs.
Every organisation is different, but most work follows the same shape.
- Understand the issueA conversation, then a look at the documents and the buildings. We agree what question needs answering and what a good outcome looks like.
- Make the decisionOptions, costs and risks set out plainly for leadership and governors, with a clear recommendation.
- Deliver it properlyProcurement, project management, mobilisation or ongoing leadership support — for as long as it is useful and no longer.
Help for Schools has played an integral role in overseeing and managing a £28 million project — the build of a new secondary school in central London.Declan Jones Principal, Borough Academy · See the project
Let’s talk about your estate.
Whether you are shaping a strategy, reviewing FM, planning a capital project or simply need experienced estates advice, start with the issue and we will work out the right support together.