UBS

One of the world’s leading financial firms

UBS is a leading financial firm in the City of London and for almost 20 years has worked in partnership with its neighbours in the London Borough of Hackney to create a positive environment for learning and development.

UBS has consistently sought to deliver lasting impact by providing financial support and using the skills of its employees to work with local organisations. Each year over 1,000 employees are involved in education-related volunteer projects in Hackney, ranging from primary school literacy initiatives to school governorships.

UBS is sponsor of the Bridge Academy. The Academy, based in south Hackney, opened to its first intake of 187 students in September 2007. UBS remains committed to supporting education in Hackney and enabling young people to fulfil their maximum potential.

UBS is delighted to sponsor the ICT Creativity and the Sustainable School of the Year categories of The Learning Trust Educators’ Awards and wishes all nominated and successful candidates continued success.

Carlisle Managed Solutions

Specialists in recruitment outsourcing

Carlisle Managed Solutions has been providing managed recruitment services to a broad range of clients in both the private and public sectors since 1997.

Carlisle Managed Solutions are extremely experienced in managing the entire recruitment process and can provide a full RPO service for both temporary and permanent recruitment.

Our positive relationships with recruitment suppliers from Impellam Group and over 400 agencies throughout the UK enable us to select and supply the best possible temporary, contract and permanent staff to work in Hackney Schools, The Learning Trust and other settings. We conduct regular reviews and assessments with each supplier, ensuring clients always benefit from outstanding candidates and superior service.

Linklaters

Linklaters is a leading global law firm with more than 500 partners and 5,000 people across 26 offices. We undertake the most important and challenging assignments for the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments, helping them to achieve their objectives by solving their most complex and important legal issues. The firm’s shared values guide how we conduct relationships with one another and with stakeholders. We strive for excellence, value teamwork and encourage creativity.

Linklaters is proud to be the only law firm to have benchmarked our performance globally against the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index and to have achieved the silver level. At a time when reliable funding is a concern for many community groups, Linklaters has increased its commitment to community investment around the world. The strategy is globally consistent and sustainable. Our London office focuses on investment in the community in Hackney.

Sheels Educational Ltd

Established in 1992 Sheels Educational Ltd is a one stop school book supplier providing expert advice on the use of educational books, schemes and resources within schools and local authorities. Sheels offer substantial discounts and supplies a wide range of books including fiction, non-fiction, multicultural, dual-language, SATs, educational schemes and textbooks.

In addition to supplying books, they offer a bespoke service that adheres to schools needs and budgets, and specialises in setting up libraries.

Communisis plc

Helping businesses communicate more profitably

Communisis is an expert in the planning, creation and delivery of customer communications. We work with many of the UK’s leading brands to help them communicate with their customers in a more engaging and profitable way. We deliver what we call ‘Intelligence Driven Communications’ and have expertise in data and analysis services, right through to the distribution of highly personalised online and printed communications.

We’re also one of the UK’s leading print managers and we help hundreds of companies procure and oversee their print more efficiently, from managing their brand assets, through to stock control and distribution. Alongside this we also manage the production of many transactional materials for financial services, utilities and retail organisations, including statements, bills and invoices in our market-leading secure production environment.

If you’re interested in finding out more about how we’re helping our customers communicate more effectively and profitably visit us at www.communisis.com