Pendle Education Trust

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Pendle Education Trust

Pendle Education Trust is a family of five academies in East Lancashire, and is sponsored by Nelson and Colne College. The most recent addition to the Pendle Education Trust family was Casterton Primary Academy, which converted in June 2018.

By becoming part of Pendle Education Trust, Casterton Primary Academy is able to share best practice, resources and ideas with the other primary members of the Trust family, and continue its ongoing commitment to helping pupils achieve their aspirations.

The need for a full revamp of their lighting scheme was identified from the constant need across the Trust for replacement bulbs, this is the point where Pendle Education Trust engaged with WN1.

Switching old and time-consuming fluorescent bulbs to new and efficient LED lighting.

Key Outcomes

Preventing costly and time-consuming lamp replacement
Reduced Carbon Footprint
Reduced electricity costing
Overnight installations to avoid classroom disruption
Future-proofed LED solution now in place

The Challenge

To resolve the long standing issues of lighting solutions throughout their schools. The Trust was spending excessive time and money in labour costs and in resources to replace old fluorescent bulbs, they required a modern and sustainable solution which would resolve the continuous issues of replacements.

The Solution

WN1 upgraded Pendle Education Trust to a current, sustainable and efficient LED lighting scheme, which has improved not only the outgoing energy costs but reduced the requirements for labour to keep replacing defective bulbs. The new LED lighting has had a positive impact on budgets and allowed further allocation into more relevant areas resulting in a better environment for the pupils to learn and develop in.

The delivery from start to finish was executed with perfect project management, minimum disruption and again a proven sustainable solution from the WN1 team.

"Prior to our switch to LED, we found ourselves constantly changing old fluorescent lamps which was a costly and time-consuming exercise. The new LED lighting has been a revelation not only saving general maintenance time but also the cost of replacing multiple fittings. The LED lighting has brought all the lighting levels in our workspaces up to the required standard and we have had multiple comments from staff on how they just didn’t realise how poor the lighting was prior to the upgrade."

"Our experience was better than expected, due to the intrusive nature of the project you always worry about it being delivered as proposed and how clean everything would be left. One of our Academies is quite small, and they came in during term time and completed the conversion overnight, and the following day apart from all the LED lights being in place you would not have known that we had contractors working through the night."

"I have already recommended WN1 to several Schools and Academies and would only have done so if I was confident that they could deliver the first-class service that we received."

Pendle Education Trust