Supply teacher firm set sights on £11m turnover

Nottingham-based supply teacher agency PK Education says a £100,000 investment in its infrastructure and a rebrand and is on course to create a further eight jobs.

Established in 2005, the company, which has just gone through a rebranding exercise, broke ecords during its tenth year in business exceeding projected turnover by more than 1,600% to hit £11m in the 2015/16 academic year. Staff numbers also increased by more than a third, with the creation of 11 new jobs to manage growth across the company’s four offices based in Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham and Birmingham in 2016.

PK Education now employs more than 40 people in consultant and compliance manager roles across the company, managing daily requests from schools for supply teachers, cover supervisors and teaching assistants.

Lee Carpenter, director of PK Education which is based on Theatre Square in Nottingham city centre, said: “We have come a long way since establishing the business. From a two-person office, we now have a network of four offices and a team of more than 40 people helping us drive the business forward. It’s a very exciting time for us and we thought it was an important that our brand reflected our ambition to be a leading supply teacher agency in the UK.”