Nexus Education was founded by Damien Challenger and Mike Reardon in 2018 when, as school governors, they realised that schools needed a community of like-minded people to share ideas, resources, training and funding. There were platforms for sharing but these were often pigeonholed into specific areas, such as Edtech or Assessment. Mike and Damien wanted something truly whole market. Nexus began as a blogging platform for educators to share ideas and tips via the website and social media. This platform grew quickly and now has over 11,000 schools enjoying the content. As school governors, with a background in events and publishing, Damien and Mike sought to build upon existing events available to schools and make them more relevant to issues schools are facing within their locality. NeXworking was born in June 2018 – a speed networking format that turned the typical events model on its head. Nexus would run bespoke 90 minute sessions for groups of schools that were completely driven by their current needs. NeXworking is SOLUTION driven – if schools have a problem, we will be able to present the solution. Not only did we want to provide the schools with the solutions, we wanted to give them the means to actually invest so we committed to donating £100k to school NeXworking with us over the next 3 years. Nexus is now a vibrant online and events community comprising of 1,500 schools per year NeXworking, 750+ blogs, 300,000 monthly social media impressions, 5,000+ monthly website visitors, and over 450 solution providers – and this is just the start!