nottingham Issue 12 | April 2016 asbmnews Draft Agendas 2015-2016 Business Network Training Events New Training Partnership drives up standards for School Business Management Professionals Updates from our Partners Schools must be proactive in responding to the recruitment crisis Plus Much More! in partnership with 2 | Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 Chair’s Opening Welcome to the Spring Term Newsletter Dear Colleagues, years Erica has supported the committee with venue co-ordination, administration and supporting links Thank you so much for your support and contributions with Nottinghamshire County Council. We wish her this year at the Nottingham ASBM events. Not only well for the future in her retirement. Theresa Shelton- have our conferences been more popular than ever, the Bourke will be taking over as Erica’s replacement on the additional training courses we offer are also giving added committee. Theresa is currently School Business Manager value to you all and I am pleased that we are now able to at Whitegate Primary School (City Authority) and we offer them at no extra cost for the rest of this year to all of welcome her into the committee and look forward to our members. working with her in the future. We are, yet again, on another exciting journey as a On a personal note, I will be leaving National Church of profession and it will be great to welcome back Stephen England Academy on a transitional basis from the 1st Morales, CEO of NASBM in June, together with Trevor May as I have been offered promotion in the Corporate Summerson and John Musso who will be working with Sector of Diverse Academies Trust as their Business us on establishing our links with the American School Development, Standards and Projects Manager. I will still Business Officials (ASBO). be continuing as Chair of the Nottingham ASBM group and will hopefully be able to bring further expertise We will also be focusing on ‘Balancing the Books’ at our and knowledge on developing the NASBM Professional next conference which I am sure will be of great benefit Standards and the requirements for internal Academy for us all as we will need as much help and support to Business Quality Assurance through this new role. develop (and hopefully balance!) future year budgets and I hope you will continue to support the success of our to ensure we get the best value we can in these times of group next year and here’s hoping that the summer brings austerity. As a profession we are also aware of the great us some lovely weather and a chance to take some rest scrutiny that we are under to ensure tight regularity and and well deserved holidays with our friends and families probity within our organisations, and hopefully we will in readiness for starting all over again in September. also be providing you with strategies and training during the day to support you with this area of your work. I look forward to seeing you again at our next event. I expressed my thanks for the hard work by Erica Karen Bonser Fletcher at our last meeting. Over the past couple of Chair, Nottingham ASBM Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 | 3 Summer Conference Draft Agendas 2015-16 SUMMER – 14th June 2016 Theme: BALANCING THE BOOKS Agenda topics 8.30-9.15 am: Arrival, Registration, Exhibition 2.30 – 3.00pm: John Musso, Association of School and Coffee Business Officials (ASBO) – Role of 9.15–9.30 am: Welcome and update from Chair, Business Official in the USA and Karen Bonser NASBM/ASBO Links 9.30-9.45 am: Partner Updates – Su Johal, SAAF (in attendance Stephen Morales – 9.45-10.00 am: Sponsor – Medical Tracker CEO, NASBM and Trevor Summerson 10.00-11.00 am: Vic Goddard – ASBO/NASBM Links) 11.00-11.30am: Coffee, Exhibition and Networking 3.00pm – 4.00pm: Andy Whittaker – The Art of Staying 1.30– 12.30pm: Workshops Brilliant Boulevard - Wellbeing Room 4.00pm: Close of day from Chair, • Jakki Pritchard – Lifestyle - Sleep Karen Bonser • PS Financial – Using technology to counter fraud within your school/acadmey Chosen Charity for this event: Rays of Sunshine • Julia Harden (ASCL) - Keeping your Balance • Su Johal (SAAF) - Budget Planning 12.30-1.30 pm Lunch, Exhibition and Networking 1.30-2.30 pm: Workshops • Jakki Pritchard – Lifestyle - Sleep • Jacqui Armand (Nottingham City Council HR) – Sharing an employee across multiple schools or academies – benefits and risks • Adam Watson (Every) – Saving Money and Making your Budget Stretch Further • Vicky Butters (SAAF) - Benchmarking 4 | Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 Spring Term Prize Winners Our Spring Term prize winners are listed below and good luck for our Summer raffle! Prize Winner M&O Building Group – Wine Bag Kim Stavens – Worksop Priory School Nott’m ASBM – Elemis Spa Bags Sandy Dodd – Tuxford Academy & Dianne Herron-Wright – Selston High YPO – £50 voucher Joanna Wells – Blidworth Oaks Primary DB Signs – Wine Jill Weedop - Cantrell Primary Rahmqvist – Tri Writers Eddie Heath - National C of E Academy & Valerie Smith – Parkdale Primary NCC ICT – Champagne Kim Fox – Ambleside Primary FSE Deign – Champagne Gail Otton – Flintham Primary Ridge – Smoothie Maker Vanessa Isaac – Colonel Frank Seely NCC – Spa Pack Paula Gallagher – Seely Primary SAS – Goodie Bag Isabel Greenhalgh – Round Hill Primary CEFM – Jacobs Creek Michelle Cavell – Prospect Hill Infants Reprotec – Baylis & Harding gift bag Anne Marie Jordan – Our Lady & St Edward’s SAAF – Red Letter Day Robin Harrison – Rushcliffe School Mellors Catering – Champagne & Chocolates Kathy Boardman – Crossley Heath SAAF Wine Winners Jill Weedop (Cantrell Primary), Linda Harrison (Tuxford Academy), Carolyn Taylor (St Peter’s School), Karen Foster (Southglade Primary), Liz Wilson (Cropwell Bishop Primary) & Sadie Fletcher (Ashlea School) Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 | 5 6 | Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 Business Network Training Events Details of these events will be emailed to members – so keep an eye out for them. Summer 2016 • Tuesday, 24th May - Managing Difficult People (FULLY BOOKED) • Thursday, 30th June - CEFM updates (tbc) • Tuesday 12th July – am Audit Process (Schools) & pm Audit Process (Academies) To book a place on these training events please go to the Nottingham ASBM website: - http://nottinghamasbm.co.uk/ and click on the conferences tab. We would be very interested in member’s views about how the website and information on it could be improved or developed. Please can you share any thoughts with Craig Wilkie via email: [email protected] Nottingham ASBM – SUGGEST A LOCAL TRADER We often have members asking us to invite a particular trader or company to exhibit at our conferences. To help members let us know about a great local company or trader, we have creat- ed a simple online form which can be filled in directly from our website. You can access the form by navigating to our website (www.nottinghamasbm.co.uk) and follow this route on the menu: Conferences > Exhibitors and Sponsors Please make sure the trader or company you are suggesting is aware of the exhibition charges and the facilities – these are clearly detailed on the online form. Issue 12 - Nottingham ASBM News | April 2016 | 7 During the last half term, we have been busy supporting schools with budget setting, we are now moving into supporting our academies with budget setting as well as supporting our schools with closing down the 2015/16 financial year. SAAF Software Budget Planning Application SAAF’s new Budget Planning Application (BPA) has now been launched for Academies and is being used to set 2016/17 budgets. We have already received excellent feedback from many of our City schools regarding the application and its capabilities; it is very easy to navigate and extremely user friendly. The new tool is able to handle full curriculum Phone: 0115 8700 452 costing including apportionable staff costs; ideal for performance related Email: [email protected] pay reviews and great for tracking your Pupil Premium. It also incorporates a maternity calculator, flash reporting; including dynamic and user tailored KPI Website: www.saaf.finance analysis. We also now give you the ability to create multiple budgets in the single application ensuring optimum version control. Brochure:mhttp://brochure. saafinance.com New Team members We are excited to announce that our increasing growth has led us to appoint several new finance consultants; Sharon Gilbert has joined our Maintained Schools Team. Steph Gibson has joined Karla Wright and Jake Richardson in our Lincoln Academy Finance Team. Adam Woodless, Johnathon Perrin and Manpreet Bhella have also joined SAAF as Academy Consultants and will be supporting our Customers in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the West Midlands. All of our new team members have extensive experience in education finance. New Services SAAF are excited to have started working with even more select partners in order to offer you additional services that are excellent value for money. We have recently started working with Minerva Procurement Consultancy, providing no-savings-no-fee procurement reviews and Backs Construction that completes our suite of building services for any new build projects. We are also working with a small group of schools on a bulk purchasing project. Our aim is to set up fixed discounts to reduce the costs of general supplies and cleaning products for you. More information will be sent out in the SAAF e-newsletter and posted on our website www.saaf.finance Contact us Phone: 0115 9752400 Email: [email protected] Top Valley Academy Website: www.saaf.finance Top Valley Drive Top Valley Nottingham We look forward to catching up with you at the next Nottingham ASBM NG5 9AZ Conference, however please feel free to contact us before then if you have any questions.