Having taken on 9 new partner schools in the last 6 months, we have more choice than ever to help you find the perfect location and space to allow your community group to thrive. 

Here are some fun facts about each of our latest schools for hire.

1. Millfields Community Primary School From church groups to antenatal classes, this school has made the perfect host for a variety of community users!
2. St Saviour's & St Olave's Church of England School This is one of our most easily accessible London schools being located just a 10 minutes walk from both Elephant & Castle and Borough Underground stations.
3. Thomas Tallis School 8 new community groups were welcomed into this venue since September 2021.
4. Malcolm Arnold Academy We’re broadening our horizons. Malcolm Arnold Academy is our only school up North!
5. Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys and...
6. Woolwich Polytechnic for Girls School These schools have a combined number of 15 spaces available for hire, and that doesn’t even include their classrooms!
7. Nonsuch High School for Girls Located on the edge of Nonsuch park, there is nonesuch place like this according to Henry VIII! In an area fit for a king, this venue could be exactly what you have been searching for.
8. Wallington High School for Girls Their motto is to support ‘Heirs of the Past, Makers of the Future’. In choosing to book a space at this school, that’s exactly what you’ll be helping to do.
9. Carshalton High School for Girls Carshalton, along with Nonsuch and Wallington is part of the Girls’ Learning Trust which provides inspirational education to young women in the Sutton community

By choosing one of our Partner Schools as a venue, you are:

• Helping to create additional income for local schools; allowing them to invest in more educational resources, support staff and extracurricular activities
• Providing a base for your business or gathering to grow in the local community
• Making use of spaces that would otherwise lie idle in the evenings and weekends!

Get in touch today to find out more about our latest schools.

We’re celebrating School Space officially raising £2 million in revenue for our partner schools!

“One of the things we’re most proud of is that over £1m of that was over the last year, during the pandemic. We have always been especially careful to provide our school partners with a service which grows bookings and community use, but also retains them – and we made sure that through our support and managing lockdowns speedily and with integrity, the schools didn’t lose out over the pandemic.”

Read the full interview on Thrive here.

School Space took part in Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses Program

Watch the video they made about School Space. 

Jemma Phibbs, Founder and Co-director of School Space talks about how they are creating the AirBnb for schools, a service to allow schools to easily rent out their space to local community events.

Highlights in this episode:

• Mental health of startup founders

• How an extra income stream are changing schools

• Importance of community hubs

• Impact of School Space to local communities

• Advising schools on the business of renting out spaces

• Need for schools to be more of an open environment

Listen to this episode now:

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/20-jemma-phibbs-school-space-creating-thriving-school/id1290523873?i=1000427900625

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ils0CZHiNSyxWpECNohLm

"School Space, a leading platform for schools to generate extra funds by hiring out their spaces, announced today that it has secured £800,000 in equity funding with the help of ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank. School Space was founded by Jemma Phibbs and James Lloyd seven years ago when they were 17, in their last year at school, and following recent expansion they have completed the TechStars accelerator and been recognised by the London Mayor’s office on their growth programme."

Read the entire press release on ClearlySo.com.

School Space in Forbes!

"School Space was started in 2011 by its Founders Jemma Phibbs and James Lloyd. They started the company after they found their own school struggling to obtain the funding to be able to provide high-quality teaching and facilities.

The school ended up being rated as requiring "special measures" by government organisation Ofsted, which shows that a school has fundamental weaknesses that need to be fixed.

Phibbs and Lloyd quickly came up with a solution where the school would rent out some of their facilities for sports activities and events, allowing the school to raise the funding to invest in improving its standing.

Since then, School Space has helped fund schools across the UK and has paid out more than £500,000 in rental fees to its partner schools. This is done through the School Space platform, which allows anyone to easily book spaces in schools, much like booking rooms on platforms such as Airbnb."

Read the full piece, published on October 10th, 2018 on Forbes.com here. 

Jemma and James were recognized by being awarded a place on Forbes' Annual 30 Under 30 List of young entrepreneurs making a difference in their field.

Check out the mention here. 

Managing Director of the Techstars Accelerator in London, Eamonn Carey, introduced the companies joining the accelerator for the upcoming cohort.

"After hundreds of meetings with incredible entrepreneurs from all over the world, visits to over 20 cities from New York to Dublin to Seoul and applications from all corners of the globe, I’m delighted to announce Techstars Class 138 – the ten companies joining us for the Techstars London Accelerator class of 2018."

And we were one of them!

Read the full piece, published July 16th, 2018 on the Techstars here.

This is the first in a series of blogs in which Companies House takes a closer look at some of the companies that contribute to positive social change and how the people behind them are helping to make a real difference.

School Space gives more than just financial benefits. They connect schools with local groups, they help grow new partnerships and reinvigorate communities.

Read the full article, published on June 4th, 2018 on the Companies House blog here.