#PartnerChat Network: supporting the school partnerships community

If you are leading partnerships in a school it can be helpful to meet with others in a similar role. The #PartnerChat network is an opportunity to share ideas and learn from others.

We recently launched free #PartnerChat Membership: a go-to resource hub designed to provide everything you need, including:

  • easy access to our monthly Breakfast Briefings and follow-up notes
  • advance notice of events such as webinars
  • exclusive discounts on services and events
  • a wide range of resources to support your school partnerships

To become a #PartnerChat Member, please click below.

Our Breakfast Briefings launched in 2022 and now reach over 330 colleagues from 220+ schools, trusts, and organizations across the UK and beyond. Members include senior leaders, partnership coordinators, and classroom teachers involved in partnership projects.

We meet monthly via Zoom on the first Wednesday of term, from 08:00-08:30, for informal Breakfast Briefings featuring guest experts, discussion, and Q&A. These sessions are not recorded, but follow-up notes are posted on the #PartnerChat members page.

Visit our Courses and Events page to register for the next briefing, even if you’re not a member.

#PartnerChat attendees:

Calendar of topics explored so far…

Feb 2026 Partnerships & the Curriculum Review
Jan 2026 Leading Partnerships: current challenges
Dec 2025 Business Studies & Enterprise
Oct 2025 Engaging with families
Sept 2025 Partnerships for EDI
June 2025 External communications
May 2025 Internal communications
Mar 2025 A Pyramid of Impact?
Feb 2025 Supporting Partnership Leaders
Dec 2024 Partnerships with FE and HE
Nov 2024 Impact Evaluation Top Tips
Oct 2024 Webinar: Funding, Resources & Value for Money
Oct 2024 Sports partnerships
Sept 2024 Post-summer catch-up
July 2024 Partnerships for leadership & transformation
June 2024 X-sector student exchanges
May 2024 SYMPOSIUM
May 2024 Funding for partnerships
Mar 2024 Language partnerships
Feb 2024 Primary/prep partnerships
Jan 2024 Secondary partnerships
Dec 2023 Can X-sector partnerships make a difference
Nov 2023 SEND partnerships
Oct 2023 Strategic STEM partnerships
Sept 2023 Back to School!
July 2023 Partner Voice
June 2023 WEBINAR: Building a Partnerships Strategy
June 2023 Practicalities, Policies & Partnerships
May 2023 Music Partnerships
Mar 2023 MATs & Federations
Feb 2023 Measuring Impact
Jan 2023 Peer Mentoring
Dec 2022 School Improvement
Nov 2022 SYMPOSIUM
Oct 2022 Academic tutoring
Sep 2022 Strategy & Planning
Jul 2022 Networking
Jun 2022 Multi-school partnerships
May 2022 Student Leadership
Mar 2022 Getting Started
Feb 2022 Science Partnerships
Jan 2022 Impact Evaluation
Christina has been a pioneer in the world of school partnerships, inventing the wheel for the first time with the reciprocity and mutuality implicit in the East Kent Schools Together model, and the guiding spirit and conscience of the Schools Together Group since the beginning in May 2016. She had the vision to see that such a group was needed, and the gumption to get it together, forging an organisation that was of national significance in its scope and ambition.

She is an outstanding consultant and I recommend her wholeheartedly.

Tom Arbuthnott

Deputy Head (Partnerships), Eton College