School business managers - can we talk?

[damppatchnot]

Feeling a bit 🙄 with a few issues at my school and it’s always good to share x

Sure, happy to chat 😊

I’m feeling very flat
I’ve raised the school funds considerably but head won’t agree to some spends
yet wastes money on all sorts

I thought I was meant to influence!

I recently left this role after realising they didn’t want my professional opinion- they wanted their own but in my voice !!

And the amount of money they waste, the amount of times they could save money but don’t, is criminal.

Yes it’s so true
and the hours I do too is a joke

Hiya, I just started in the SBM role, please give me tips on how you raised funds? I am interested in refurbishing the toilets - it is killing me when I see the state of the toilets, it absolutely does

If you’re a LA maintained school, the LA should have toilets as part of their cyclical maintenance schedule, and fund them from their own capital budgets.