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Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu
A column with no settings can be used as a spacer
Link to your collections, sales and even external links
Add up to five columns
Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu
A column with no settings can be used as a spacer
Link to your collections, sales and even external links
Add up to five columns
Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu
A column with no settings can be used as a spacer
Link to your collections, sales and even external links
Add up to five columns
April 09, 2020 2 min read
Plum is a London based IT consulting and service provider for schools. Our vision is to assist teachers succeeding in their professional fields with an efficient and solid IT platform by providing a stress-free IT experience. We work tirelessly towards helping reinforce the positive impact of EdTech on students’ learning outcomes and assisting schools to employ the ideal technology, in the most cost-effective way.
Plum is doing very well in the education sector and maintains a high level of quality of service, but we remain as a very small business. One of our biggest challenges currently is: do we want to scale up or remain as a “small giant”?
Plum has won multiple awards including Bett Awards, (like an Oscar in the Education Technology Sector) and highly commended by Bexley Awards ☺
I’m very lucky to be able to work closely with many great headteachers and sector business leaders. I have learnt a lot from them and I’m still learning.
Due to the nature of our business, both onsite and remote support are always the core services we are providing. Since school closures started, we have managed to switch the focus on remote support for home learning and for school staff who are working from home. We also managed to help our supported schools prepared once closure was announced by DfE.
Starting a business is like playing “Football Manager” games in real life. If you enjoy working long hours and looking after the team and stake holders, then go for it. But make sure the business model is realistic. Also there is really no work-life balance, once the journey starts, so you need to prepare for it both mentally and physically.