The latest round of the Condition Improvement Fund for 2025-2026 is now open, offering schools, academies and colleges the opportunity to obtain important funding for building improvements.
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We are delighted to share with you S2e’s inaugural Condition Improvement Fund Insights for CIF outcomes in 2024/25. This report examines the latest (2024/25) CIF outcome against historical results, to provide analysis on long-term trends and implications for CIF-eligible institutions.
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The Department for Education (DfE) has recently announced the allocations for the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for 2024-25. For schools, multi-academy trusts (MATs) and colleges facing disappointment in this cycle, there will be an option to appeal against the decision
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The latest round of the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for school building improvements is now open. In this CIF round for 2024-25, there are two notable updates: an emphasis on the fact that CIF applications for RAAC mitigations and/or RAAC roof replacements are not necessary as they will receive separate funding, and new information regarding disqualification criteria for expansion projects.
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Securing condition improvement funding to improve the condition of your school estate can be pivotal. To give you the very best chance of CIF success we have marshalled all our expertise, and provided some top tips, to compile this guide.
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The results for the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the 23/24 financial year have been released with a total of 1,033 projects successful, receiving a collective funding of £456 million.
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If your school premises are not in optimum condition for teaching and learning, it may be time to start considering an application for improvement funding.
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With the school funding crisis deepening, maintaining your school estate whilst balancing your budget is becoming more difficult. In the face of rising costs, accessing government funding is more important than ever and Surveyors to Education (S2e) can help.
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Schools wanting to replace fossil-fuel boilers with low-carbon alternatives are being urged to make use of two Government funding schemes.
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Applications for the new round of the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) to improve school buildings have just opened, and there are a few changes from last year.
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The latest annual bidding round of the Government’s Condition Improvement Fund is about to open and last time £498 million was allocated for 1,405 projects at 1,129 institutions.
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The results of the 2022 to 2023 CIF applications have been published, and we are delighted to announce we secured over £28 million for our clients, with a success rate of 86% over the last 3 years.
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The successful schools in the latest round of Condition Improvement Funding (CIF) have just been announced – and inevitably some academies and Multi-Academy Trusts will have been disappointed not to be awarded funding. But while it might be tempting to appeal against the decision, that may not always be the best move.
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We are delighted to announce that S2e have again secured over £20m of CIF funding for our academy and MAT clients. If you are an Academy Trust who has been unsuccessful with CIF in the 2021-22 round, and/or are considering a CIF application for next year, we would be pleased to offer you a free assessment of your requirements.
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Dingy cold classrooms and dilapidated facilities are all too common, yet school buildings can have a major impact on students’ performance.
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Lionheart Academies Trust CEO, Kath Kelly, Director of Estates, Roger Taylor, and S2e director, Roy Pett co-chaired a workshop on how the development of estates has been pivotal to the successful performance of the Trust.
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Surveyors to Education (S2e) directors, Martin Hier and Richard Coe attracted aver 70 delegates to their talk at this month’s Virtual MAT Expo.
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The latest information from the Department of Education (DfE) is that the results of the CIF 2020 to 2021 appeals round will be announced within the next 10 days.
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The second wave of the Condition Data Collection (CDC 2) programme has been announced by the Department for Education (DfE).
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The directors of Surveyors to Education (S2e) have put together a concise overview of the CIF fund to help academy leaders have the best chance of successfully obtaining condition funding and developing the optimum learning environment for their pupils.
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