Market Place 25

Howden - our main conference sponsors

Digital ID

Here at Digital ID, we enhance the future of photo identification and access control, ensuring safe and efficient environments for colleges. Our team of over 100 professionals, across four offices, brings twenty-five years of expertise to meet the unique needs of student service managers. We offer a vast selection of ID card printers, ribbons, blank cards, lanyards, and holders, with over 2,000 product lines and one million items in stock. For eco-conscious institutions, we provide environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional plastic products with the aim in reducing both ours and your carbon footprint. Discover our solutions and make a secure and sustainable choice for your campus.

Navigate 

Trusted by colleges across the country, Navigate empowers learners and staff to record, manage, evidence, and report on all non-academic activity and skills development, with extensive solutions for:

* Industry Placement and work experience
* Enrichment and Tutorials
* Digital EHCP
* Extra Curricular Activities
* Careers content and Gatsby reporting
* Employer Engagement CRM
* Skills Development Tracking

The platform provides an engaging, easy-to-use student site and a powerful, intuitive task management site for staff.
 

YGAM

Ygam are an award-winning national charity working to prevent children and young people from experiencing gaming and gambling harms through awareness raising, education and research.

Through a portfolio of education programmes, Ygam provides free training and recourses for teachers, youth workers, practitioners, universities, faith leaders and health professionals. All programmes have been independently scrutinised, challenged, evaluated and quality marked by a wide range of organisations.

QDP Services

QDP Services offers the FE sector the ability to enhance the lives of their stakeholders. Our products and expertise provide you with the tools to effectively listen to the needs of your audience, inform strategies and interventions, and measure the impact of your efforts. With over 50% of FE institutions using QDP, our national benchmark data set is unmatched.

We're here to assist you throughout all your feedback projects, from creation to data interpretation. Feel free to reach out to us to discuss how we can support you in making a meaningful impact and shaping a better tomorrow through the perspectives of those who are most important.

Think Pacific

Think Pacific provides fully-funded global experiences for college learners via the UK Government's Turing Scheme across the Asia-Pacific region.

All of our programmes align with specific work experience and employability outcomes, whilst making a positive and responsible contribution to local initiatives.

The Career Development Institute

The Career Development Institute (CDI) is the UK’s professional body for all aspects of career development, supporting our members to work to the highest standards and championing the profession. We set standards for professional practice, including the CDI Code of Ethics, which are recognised by government, and we manage the UK Register of Career Development Professionals. We award the Qualification in Career Development and deliver training through the CDI Academy for those entering and progressing in the profession. We provide resources, CPD training events and networking for our members to enable them to continually develop. 

Opalite Learning

Opalite Learning offers innovative training programmes and resources for pastoral teams and students on the themes of Personal Development, Behaviours and Attitudes. 

Morrisby Ltd

CourseNav is powered by Morrisby, a leader in careers guidance, using robust psychometric analyses and data-driven insights to provide personalised recommendations.

We can provide your human-backed, AI-powered course and careers assistant which you can plug into your website and integrate with your course catalogue to provide seamless conversations with prospective students. We consider students' interests, ambitions, and strengths, alongside your college’s course library and facilities, to offer the most personalised course guidance on the market!

Come and speak to us to find out more!

Smoothwall (Monday only)

As a leading provider of digital safeguarding technology in UK education, Smoothwall is trusted by FE colleges to protect thousands of young adults and students daily. We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of learners in their digital lives, working closely with college IT teams and Safeguarding Leads to protect students from online risks—whether on campus, at home, or anywhere in between.

Sports Education & Training

Sports Education and Training have been created to maximise the student experience through football. SportsET have been working with industry professionals over 10 years linking global sports brands to school and college enrichment programmes. Historically these types of programmes help to grow provisions and have a positive impact on academic achievement data.  

Barry Bennett Ltd

Barry Bennett is a family-owned business which has been in existence for over forty years.  

We provide an end-to-end solution for university  apprenticeship/research council/international students who require needs assessments, assistive technology, assistive technology training, ergonomic or technical assessments and/or Non-Medical help support.   With 30 years’ experience, we pride ourselves on superior levels of customer care and our teams are fully committed to supporting your students and helping them to achieve their potential. 
 
We provide a range of technical assessment services for students, covering all specialist technology requirements for hearing and visual impairments. Our assessors have many years of combined experience and undertake annual supplier-led accreditations in their respective fields.

To deliver our exceptional service, we utilise our state-of-the-art CUDOS system, which simplifies administrative tasks and helps manage all aspects of NMH provision. A license for universities is available.

Loud Speaker

Young people spend their lives learning what to say.
At Loud Speaker, we teach them how to say it.

Loud Speaker is the fastest growing workshop provider for young people across the country. We raise their aspirations by providing unique, high-energy workshops that give learners the tools to enable them to speak professionally and leave them confident enough to take up opportunities.

Across our 4 headline workshops, we cover topics such as public speaking, confidence building, personal storytelling, teamwork, leadership and so much more.

Caribbean Elective - our Gala Dinner sponsor

Caribbean Elective creates powerful cultural learning interventions across the Schools, FE and University sectors. Our travel programmes harness UK Government Turing Scheme Funding to deliver transformative overseas work experience programmes across a wide range of subjects, including Business, Catering, Tourism, Healthcare, Sports and Beauty.
We also create innovative educational interventions that enable FE Colleges to integrate internationalisation into the curriculum without travel. Our boot camps, which are delivered at your campus, help develop key soft skills like confidence, adaptability and resilience by empowering students to work on challenges directly linked back to and inspired by Caribbean communities and culture. 

The Care Leaders (Monday only)

E-learning facilitated by Lived and Professional Experience Leaders.  The Care Leaders Online is an e-learning provider of children's social care courses and care experienced training. 

The Care Leaders Online was born from a passion to blend personal journeys through care with professional wisdom. Our team, comprising individuals who have navigated the care system and seasoned experts, is dedicated to bringing you training that's both empathetic and evidence-based. Together, we're rewriting the narrative of children's social care.

Third Sector International

Third Sector International (3Si) is a training and research company based in Seville, Spain, that designs and delivers Turing Scheme projects for Further Education colleges. Since the scheme was introduced in 2021, 3Si has provided thousands of college students with rewarding work and study placements abroad across a variety of vocational sectors. Our tailored programmes include local supervision, accommodation, language lessons and cultural activities that give students an unforgettable, supported experience. We have a very successful track record of assisting colleges with securing funded projects, while also improving existing projects through our educational offer and understanding of student needs.

The Careers and Enterprise Company 

We work with schools, colleges and employers to help every young person find their best next step.  We support colleges with careers leader training, resources, webinars, a quality assurance maturity model and links to local and regional careers hubs.

Life on Time Ltd

Ease the Pressure on Student Support Teams. Empower Students. Elevate Wellbeing
youHQ provides universities and colleges with tools to support student wellbeing, including mood surveys, trackers, and resources designed to foster emotional resilience and a supportive campus culture.

Key Benefits:

Reduce Risk: A student-led early detection system highlights those who may struggle to speak up, enabling proactive mental health support. Evidence-based questionnaires help identify issues early, reducing safeguarding risks.

Build Relationships: A secure virtual space allows students to connect with trusted staff, promoting openness and trust.

Inspire: Curated resources empower students to build agency, develop character, set goals, and align with their values.

youHQ: Elevating student wellbeing in higher education.

The Fair Earth Foundation 

The Fair Earth Foundation family offers low cost volunteering and experiential learning opportunities to young people so that they can find their own place in the world and make the changes that they want to see.  From Whale & Dolphin Conservation in Tenerife to supporting hill tribes in Vietnam, we offer learners the chance to experience the world and their own perception of what they can contribute to it.