Keeping Our Professional Community Connected

At ISBL, we believe strong professional communities are built through connection. Alongside our regional and national events, we support local groups, regional networks and established SBP associations across the country.

Many of these groups have been created and led by school business professionals over the last three decades, offering valuable peer support, local insight and a strong regional voice.

The groups below are formally affiliated with ISBL. Together, we share policy updates, CPD opportunities and emerging practice, while helping to connect regional perspectives with national policy and sector developments.

If you are part of a local or regional group and would like to find out more about affiliation or regional group membership, we would be pleased to help. You can also explore the Department for Education’s directory of local networks.

Association of Business Leaders in Education (ABLE)

www.ablepro.info

chair@able-pro.co.uk

Birmingham Association of School Business Managers (BASBM)

www.basbm.org

chair@basbm.org

Coast and Moors School Business Leaders

www.cmsbl.org

mmatthew@thelink.academy

Dudley Association of School Business Managers

jillbelcher59@gmail.com

Hampshire Business Managers Network Group

h.manton@wildern.org

Island School Business Managers (ISBM)

clerktoheadteachers@stmaryspri.co.uk

Lancashire Association of School Business Managers (LASBM)

www.lasbm.com

sally@lasbm.com

Manchester and Trafford School Business Leaders Forum

mtsblforum@redrambler.org

Northamptonshire School Business Management Forum

www.nsbmf.org/

jcorbett@wrenn-academy.net

Oxfordshire Academies Business Managers Group

oabmg.co.uk

rhian@minervapcs.com

South Gloucestershire School Business Leaders’ Group (SGSBL)

(now merged with Somerset School Business Leaders)

www.sgsbl.org.uk

hello@sgsbl.org.uk

Waltham Forest School Business Managers Group

s.lewis@bremer.waltham.sch.uk

Bedfordshire School Business Network

WhatsApp Group Invite

pedmond@heartacademiestrust.co.uk

Association of Business Management in Norfolk Schools (ABMNS)

www.abmns.co.uk

manager@sheringhamwoodfields.norfolk.sch.uk

Bishop Stortford School Business Managers

sbm@summercroft.herts.sch.uk

Cumbria Association of School Business Administration and Management (CASBAM)

skl@skleducation.co.uk

HASBM (Hertfordshire Association of School Business Management)

www.hasbm.org/member/login/form/

speach@desc.herts.sch.uk

Richmond and Wandsworth Group

Gary.Hipple@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Solihull Schools Business Manager Group (SSBMG)

www.solihullsbm.org

mfirmstone@lighthall.co.uk

Telford Association of School Business Managers (TASBM)

tricia.wilkin@taw.org.uk

West Yorkshire Academy Business Leaders

w.beasley@leodis.org.ukuk

Berkshire School Business Managers Group (BSBMG)

www.berkshiresbm.org

rhian@minervapcs.com

Blackpool Association of School Business Managers

ammap65@gmail.com

Bradford Primary SBM Forum

jenni.taylor@crossleyhallprimary.co.uk

Gloucestershire Association of School Business Management (GASBM)

www.gasbm.org

sbm@ckjs.org.uk

Humber & East Riding School Business Leaders (HEYSBL)

www.heysbl.org.uk/signup

nsiddle@het.academy

Newham School Business Managers Network

newhamsbms@gmail.com

South Yorkshire Business Leaders Group

www.sysbl.org.uk

msomerville@scsp.org.uk 

The London Borough of Hounslow SBM Network

louise.butt@hounslow.gov.uk

The Ealing School Business Manager Network

abennett@ealing.gov.uk

Walsall School Business Leaders

nmillward@shortheathfederation.org.uk

Worcestershire Association of School Business Management (WASBM)

www.wasbm.org

russell@wasbm.org