Schools & Trusts

Creative, collaborative educational spaces aligned to your values.

Breath life and character into your school buildings. We work with senior leadership, staff and students to identify opportunities for co-design, deliver workshops and design programs that capture your ideas, develop interior fit-out schemes and deliver bespoke joinery that makes your spaces work seamlessly.

Co-design in schools offers an opportunity to demonstrate democratic approaches to learning, and involving students and staff in decision-making about your spaces is highly visual and tangible.

Our experience across a spectrum of schools helps inform a uniquely sensory, spatial and hands-on way of working collaboratively with students, staff and families, as well as wider design professionals and contractors to fit out new and existing school buildings.

We know what it takes to deliver great school and trust projects

Sustainability

A better understanding of the material world helps everyone make sustainable choices. We only ever use FSC approved timber and can often find ways to reuse old materials to great effect.

Standards

We always use quality control processes to ensure work reaches you at the highest standards. We are fully insured and offer a guarantee on our built work as required.

Smart

Our team is experienced, qualified and professional. We regularly undergo CPD training and benefit from our expert educational advisors who keep us up to date with the latest in pedagogical research.

Speedy

We understand the fast paced nature of your work and act quickly and responsively to your needs. We only ever set realistic deadlines, so that we can always meet them.

Safe

We undertake and provide full Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) for all our installation work, as well as having all staff appropriately DBS checked.

Surprisingly Affordable

We work to all budgets, big and small. As a small business we do not have huge overheads or investors. As designer- makers we know how to deliver efficiently.

Some of our latest school and trust projects

Nicholas Chamberlaine School

A cornerstone of Griffin School Trust’s strategy to broaden horizons and aspirations for their students is to make their schools approachable and orientated towards their community. At their largest secondary schools this is significantly hindered by having buildings either owned and managed by large corporate landlords or provided ‘to specification’ by national government