sub-group

Estates

Estates

Kim Hall from Advance Learning Partnership leads our Estates sub-group.

Kim Hall

Kim has been a leader in education since 2013, supporting business functions across North East schools in various settings and contexts.

As Director of Estates and Sustainability at Advance Learning Partnership, she oversees strategic estates management trust-wide. This approach supports her in driving child-centered evidence-based decision-making, maximise resources, and ensuring value for money. Her responsibilities span capital investment, estates, health and safety, catering, risk, and sustainability across the trust. In addition to this, during her time at the trust, she has also taken the lead on procurement activity over the last 3 years, driving financial efficiencies and compliance, social value initiatives for pupils and staff, and collaborating with organisations to support sustainability goals.

Kim is completing her Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Leadership with the Chartered Management Institute and holds a Certificate in School Business Management, along with a NEBOSH Leadership qualification in Health and Safety Excellence.

In a commitment to collaboration and professional development, Kim has established multiple support staff networks to empower employees, share best practices, and create lasting impact.

Arcadis LLP (Sub Group Sponsor)

Arcadis is the leading global Design & Consultancy firm for natural and built assets. Applying our market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services we work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes.

Schools face various challenges in deliver learning environments:

  • Limited funding and rising costs.
  • Adapting current spaces to new teaching models.
  • Complexity of statutory compliance, health and safety and legal responsibilities.
  • Ensuring best value.

Our UK Schools & Colleges Team has worked with schools for over 50 years, across dioceses, academy trusts, local authorities, and independent schools, helping them to face these challenges. We support over 200 school clients in delivering capital works, 100 schools in managing statutory compliance and have completed over 10,000 school condition surveys. We work closely with responsible bodies at board level in delivering their estate strategy.