Multi-Academy Trust & School-Group Membership

Empowering Trusts & School-Groups through Development, Expertise, and Operational Excellence

ISBL is proud to offer trusts & school-groups a powerful, cost-effective way to build operational excellence and professional capability across your entire organisation.

One subscription. Whole-trust impact.
With a single ISBL group membership, your trust can give all staff and governors full access to ISBL’s services, resources, frameworks, insights, and research, creating a shared professional language and consistent approach to operational leadership.

What’s included?

  • Professional Standards & Capability Insight
    Staff can self-assess against ISBL’s nationally endorsed Professional Standards using our Brilliant Assessments tool, providing a clear view of strengths and development priorities across key operational domains like Finance, HR, Procurement, Estates, Digital, Sustainability, and Marketing.

  • Self Assessment Without Extra Costs
    Recognise existing expertise and support career progression with assessment options that require no additional training.

  • Comprehensive Training Portfolio
    From entry-level programmes to executive leadership development, ISBL offers flexible training for every career stage.

  • OpEx for Education™ Framework
    Access our unique operational excellence framework, diagnostic services, and targeted interventions to embed sustainable, efficient, and resilient practices.

  • Professional Communities
    Join networks of high-performing practitioners through forums, special interest groups, and international collaborations.

What does it cost?

A single school or academy trust (SAT) is £309 per annum (small)

A trust or school-group with 2-10 schools is £772.50 per annum (medium)

A trust or school-group with 11-16 schools is £1,236 per annum (large)

A trust or school-group with 17 or more schools is £2,000 per annum (extra large)

How do I find out more?

Simply fill in our enquiry form by clicking below and we will be in touch.

Non-member options

Access to full ISBL accreditation and certification against the professional standards is only available to those with individual membership of ISBL (including Foundation, Associate, Full or Fellow membership). Trust, regional and corporate group membership excludes accreditation.

To become an individual member of ISBL, please view our member categories and prices here.

For those colleagues with trust or regional group membership, access to accreditation can be gained by transferring to individual membership. For only an additional £50 you can upgrade from trust to full individual membership by emailing ISBL.

 If you wish to purchase accreditation without ISBL membership or have any further queries then please email accreditation@isbl.org.uk.

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Trust and School-Group Consultancy

We also offer a trust and school-group consultancy support service that will provide members with access to leading sector experts, who assist the sector across areas such as planning for growth, due diligence, developing central teams, strategic financial planning, recruitment, retention and performance management, and people development. Click here for more information about our Consultancy Support.