MAKING LIFE EASIER FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

You may already be familiar with EVOLVE. In fact, you may well be one of the 800,000+ teachers, senior leaders, youth workers, or administrators that have used EVOLVE to plan, risk manage and seek approval for more than 15 million educational visits since 2004.

Who could have predicted what an extraordinary journey would result from a chance meeting between two teachers, Daniel Baker and Clive Atkins, back in 2003?  

When they first met, Daniel and Clive found themselves talking about how technology might be used to simplify and streamline the ever-increasing compliance and administrative burden on schools. Knowing first-hand how time-consuming and complex it was for schools to plan and manage educational visits, they set about using Daniel’s experience in teaching and school ICT management, and Clive’s experience as an Outdoor Education Advisor, to create a structured visit approval system that optimised compliance while also making it easier for teachers and administrators to plan.

Of course, visit planning is about more than risk management, and schools also need effective ways to manage home-school communication, consent, payments etc.  By integrating with school management information systems (MIS), and providing built-in communication, consent and payment modules, EVOLVEvisits brings data to life and streamlines the entire visit management process.

A new visit is approved ever 20 seconds using EVOLVE. In the academic year 2023-24, 2,182,663 visits were planned and managed using EVOLVE, including 10,555 Overseas Visits.

Of course, EVOLVE is much more than a visit management system

Other areas of school life pose similar challenges for staff.  Planning and running extensive extra-curricular and wrap-arounds care clubs, managing rich programmes of sporting fixtures, handling parental payments, and ensuring student and staff safety can all be challenging and time consuming.

EVOLVE’s platform of tailored applications helps to keep everything running smoothly, enhancing managerial oversight, ensuring compliance, and improving communication. Having everything you need in one place makes life easier for everyone involved.

Schools are increasingly adopting multiple EVOLVE systems, recognising the advantages of having a fully integrated approach. It also means that staff members can avoid the steep learning curve and inefficiencies that come with managing disparate software solutions.

EVOLVEing together

One core objective has guided every stage of EVOLVE’s development - to make life easier for teachers, administrators, managers and leaders at every level within schools and colleges. By maintaining this clear focus, EVOLVE continues to evolve.

Underpinning EVOLVE’s success is its steadfast commitment to exceptional customer service and its continuous investment in its skilled support team. Based in offices in Woodbridge, Suffolk, the support team provides unparalleled assistance, and every query is handled with care, professionalism, and a human touch. EVOLVE customers often remark on how wonderful it is to speak to a ‘real person’, a refreshing change in today's world of endless automated messages and chatbots.