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Education web design and branding

Schools don’t buy like businesses.

Whether you supply IT, SEND support, software or school buildings, schools need to trust you before they’ll talk to you.

We help you look like the people who get education, and make it easy for heads, business managers and trusts to say yes.

You’re good at what you do. Schools just can’t tell yet.

Your best leads come from word of mouth, and that only goes so far. Your website explains what you do, but a head wants to know if it works in a school like theirs.

And you’re not selling to one person. It’s a head, a business manager, a SENCo, an IT lead and sometimes a whole trust board. Right now your site speaks clearly to none of them.

The impact

Every missed term costs you a year.

  • Long sales cycles get longer. Schools buy around the academic year and budget setting. Miss the window and you wait another year.
  • Trust gets decided before you’re in the room. Schools check what other schools think. If your site doesn’t show that, you’re filtered out early.
  • Tenders and frameworks favour the clearest supplier. When you’re up against others on price and spec, the one that explains itself simply wins.
  • Growth stalls when trusts take over buying. Selling to one school is different to selling to a trust of twenty. Your marketing needs to work for both.
LearnPro Group training on a tablet

LearnPro Group

Four brands, one group site.

4:30

average time on site, from 3:00

What we do about it

Build around how schools buy.

Strategy & brand

Work out who really makes the decision.

Heads, business managers, SENCos and trusts: what each of them needs to hear, and what makes you different from the other suppliers on the list.

Creative

A brand that feels at home in a school.

Credible and clear, not corporate or generic. Carried through to a website that answers what schools actually ask: safeguarding, data, cost and proof from schools like theirs.

Marketing

Found by schools when they’re looking.

In search and in the AI tools schools now use to research suppliers, timed around the academic year and budget setting.

AI & Systems

Know which schools are interested.

See which schools and trusts are visiting and engaging, so your team follows up at the right time instead of guessing.

Why it works

Why this fixes it

  • More schools trust you before the first call. Proof from schools like theirs, shown up front, not buried.
  • Every decision maker gets what they need. The head, the business manager and the trust board each find their answer quickly.
  • You stop relying on word of mouth. A brand and site that bring in schools who’ve never heard of you.
  • Tenders and frameworks get easier to win. Clear positioning and real proof make your bid stronger.

EUS strategy workshop

A Squibble workshop in progress with a client team
Chris Arnold

They went to great lengths to ensure we went over every bit of detail… formed an extension of our team.

–Chris Arnold

Senior Marketing Manager, Energy & Utility Skills

Built for companies that sell to schools.

Good fit if you sell to schools, colleges or trusts and growth relies too much on referrals, your brand doesn’t reflect how good you are, or you’re preparing for tenders and frameworks.

Not the right fit if this is a one-off logo refresh with no wider site or marketing work attached. That’s a smaller, different conversation.

Proof

Trusted by companies that work with schools.

LearnPro Group
LearnPro Group

People stayed longer once they could find the course they came for.

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Five hundred schools in 48 hours.

Still in daily use six years later, run by the people who own it.

500

schools onboarded in 48 hours

6 years

still in daily use

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Where Governor Space started
Who Governor Space was built for

Not ready to talk?

Build the case before you spend anything.

Use our free calculators to work out what the project’s worth and what waiting is costing you. Then use it to get your board to say yes.

FAQs

Your questions, answered

Do you understand education, or is this generic branding?

We start with how schools buy: who’s involved, when budgets are set and what they need to see before they’ll trust a supplier. Not generic B2B branding with a school photo on it.

Can our team edit the site without a developer?

Yes. That’s the point of getting the CMS choice right at the start.

We’re bidding for a framework or tender. Can you help?

Yes. Tell us the deadline. We’ll make sure your positioning, proof and website back up the bid.

We sell to lots of different people in a school. Can you help with that?

Yes. We map who’s involved in the decision and make sure your site gives each of them what they need, from the head to the trust board.

The Squibble team holding their B Corp certification plaque

Sectors

Sector experience, not sector guesswork.

Every sector has its own buyers, its own objections and its own way of deciding. Here’s where we’ve already done the learning.

B2B Services

Growth came from relationships, not marketing. We build the story that gets you into rooms where nobody knows your name yet.

Destination

A place has more audiences than a business does, and they rarely agree. We settle what the place stands for, then build one platform that serves all of them.

Education

Schools buy on trust. We help the companies that supply them earn it before the first call.

Finance

Trusted, expert, secure: the words that differentiate nobody. We find the difference that is actually true and say it.

Manufacturing

Nobody buys a part number, they buy the problem it solves. We turn the catalogue into an answer.

Tech & Cyber

Growth stalls when nobody can say what makes you different any more. We point you at whichever part is actually stuck.

Merger & Acquisition

Merge, keep separate, or something in between. One day, every brand in the deal sorted, with a roadmap for the next one.

Latest insights

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Start here

Start with a day.

Your team in a room, the way schools really buy from you on the wall, and a direction for the brand and site you can act on straight after.