Create, Share and Communicate with Relay  

Helping schools and pupils thrive by making school finance reporting easy and effective

Annual Subscription Product
£499.00 every 12 months until cancelled
£99.80 (tax per payment)
Annual subscription £499+vat
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Create professional budget monitoring reports

Present beautiful, interactive reports and dashboards. Relay is designed to be simple, intuitive and effective.

Share effective budget monitoring reports securely within the Relay App

Trustees or Governors are notified when a new report is released and ready for them to interact with at their convenience. Relay is designed to relay the right information clearly, accurately and intuitively. Costly leadership time and valuable volunteer time shouldn’t be taken up deciphering unclear financial information.

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Communicate to gain complete understanding.

Communicate through secure in App messaging. Leave comments to help explain the differences to planned income or expenditure. Trustees or Governors can ask a question and get an answer on specific numbers, budget headings or variances. These comments are then visible for all.

Increase productivity and regain the power and purpose of meetings

Relay clarity and complete understanding of your financial position in advance of meetings. Valuable meeting time is now released for informed discussion and more effective decision making.

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Annual Subscription Product
£499.00 every 12 months until cancelled
£99.80 (tax per payment)
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Enjoy the benefits of relay along with undeniable value for money.

  • Low Cost
  • Best Value
  • High impact
  • Secure payments with Stripe
How can we help you?

See how Relay can make life easier for you, help you be more effective and help your school to achieve its vision and aims

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  • Many accounting systems don’t meet the requirements of school finance reporting.
  • They simply concentrate on producing reports of actual income and expenditure to date.
  • These are often not compliant with the Academies Handbook or finance management best practice. For example they omit forecasting and variance narratives.
  • We can help. Relay ensures compliance and goes well beyond best practice. But most of all it makes school finance reporting easy!

  • It can be time consuming extracting information from your finance system and producing your own reports for leadership and Trustees or Governors.
  • Or may require expertise in excel etc that you don’t have.
  • With Relay you can confidently create professional, high quality budget monitoring reports quickly and without technical expertise
  • With Relay you can empower your team to confidently make decisions based on clear, simple and intuitive budget monitoring information.

  • Meetings can easily be overtaken trying to decipher the finance reports and get a collective understanding of the schools financial position.
  • You either run out of time or there isn’t enough confidence or information to make decisions and move forward.
  • We have the solution with Relay‘s interactive reporting. This allows school finance staff to leave comments or explanations.
  • Trustees or Governors can ask questions on specific variances, budget headings, forecasts etc allowing school finance staff the time to investigate and answer confidently rather than being put on the spot in meetings.
  • So when the meeting takes place everyone has a clear understanding of the financial position and can engage in effective discussion and be confident in their decision making.

  • We have a long history of working in partnership with schools as finance management support providers and have shared in their journeys of success.
  • Through this work we know which content, format, presentation and communication gets the best results.
  • Our software is ESFA compliant and includes industry best practice but above all it is informed by years of practical experience.

  • Are you producing the right reports for your Trustees or Governors?
  • Do you think they meet their expectations?
  • Are they ESFA compliant?
  • Your job is demanding and continues to expand – do you have the time to produce the necessary reports?
  • Are you sending out system based reports worried that they are not comprehensive or clear enough?
  • Are you asked questions in meetings and struggle to answer with assurance?
  • With Relay you can confidently create professional, high quality budget monitoring reports quickly and without technical expertise.
  • With Relay you can answer questions outside of meetings when you have the time to investigate and respond confidently.

  • If you are frustrated and compromised in your drive to do the best for your pupils by poor budget management information Relay can help.
  • Manage risks and exploit opportunities by feeling confident in making decisions based on clear, simple and intuitive budget monitoring information.
  • Reduce the stress on your finance staff with Relay.
  • Raise the quality of financial management in your school and increase the confidence in your team with your Trustees or Governors.
  • Free up valuable meeting time for effective discussion and confident decision making.
  • Increase productivity and focus on acheiving your schools vision and aims.
  • Maximise available resources for the prosperity of your pupils.

  • Being a volunteer, you no doubt want the time you give to be effective and meaningful. At Relay, we want that too.
  • Receive clear, simple and intuitive budget monitoring information that you can review in the Relay App at your convenience.
  • Our dashboards have been designed to passport the information you need easily and clearly.
  • Our innovative interactive reports allow you to ask about figures and receive answers in our secure in-app messaging.
  • Messages are visible for all to see so the whole team can benefit.
  • Before a meeting, you have had the opportunity to gain a complete understanding of the financial position. You are ready to engage in effective discussions and confidently make decisions for the benefit of the pupils in your school.
  • Relay can be a valuable record of Trustee or Governor’s engagement in inspections or audits.

  • With our flexible and easy upload system, it doesn’t matter which finance system you use. It’s an easy and quick process to upload the data from your finance system to Relay with no technical skills required.
  • On purchase, you will gain access to our data upload step-by-step guide from our support library.

Following payment, you will receive a VAT receipt and invoice. You will also receive a welcome email containing a link to start your Relay journey.

If you would prefer to pay by bacs or cheque. Please send an order to enquiries@therelay.co.uk, and we will send you an invoice.

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