Those responsible or overseeing Finance, HR and Estate Management within schools.

Please CLICK HERE  and complete the application form.  On review, you will receive an email notification with your login details and instructions on how to access your account.  An invoice will be sent out to cover your yearly membership separately.

Yes.  The FD Forum is a secure, confidential site and no details are passed on to third parties.

The confidentiality and integrity of the group is one of its most important features.  If any member is found to have divulged any information to a third party they will be taken off the group with immediate effect.

To log in to the Forum use the link Forum login. For additional forum access fill out the contact form, You will receive an email confirmation when these have been applied to your membership.

Firstly, check you are logged in. If you still receive this message you may not have that particular forum as part of your subscription. 

Please email admin@thefdforum.co.uk to request access.  You will receive an email confirming when this has been added to your subscription.

Go to your account, click on Edit Profile, scroll down and you will find the notifictions option there.

If you find a post useful, interesting or helpful but don’t necessarily want to leave a reply, simply click the Like button. It’s a quick and easy way to show appreciation and support for fellow members and lets them know their contribution has been valued. You can also see which discussions and replies are proving particularly useful to other members. If you want to keep track of a discussion and receive notifications about new replies, use the Subscribe option instead.

Yes, you can.  If you visit "Your Forum Account" tab, under the heading "Forum Notifications" you can opt into a regular digest of Forum Topics - either daily, weekly or monthly - by ticking the box marked "Enable Forum Digests".  

Please note, however, that under the option of "Full" Forum Digests  (rather than "Condensed"), links to the replies are provided - not the full content of the replies.

You can do this in your Forum account here:  https://thefdforum.co.uk/members/me/

This can be done directly on the website via the reply box within the post or by the link at the bottom of the email notification you have received.

IMPORTANT - please ensure you are logged in to your account.

When you find a useful discussion that you may want to return to, click Favourite to save it to your personal list. Your favourited discussions are kept together, making it much easier to find important advice or conversations again without searching through the forums. You can access them from your profile by selecting Forums → Favourites. This is particularly helpful for discussions containing useful recommendations, shared experiences or information you may need to refer back to later. You can remove a discussion from your Favourites at any time.

On set up, you will automatically receive email notifications in the format you have requested.

If there is a specific post (and subsequent replies) you’d like to follow, please tick the box at the bottom of each individual post.

If you do not receive any email notifications please check they are not in your junk folder and then contact your IT department to check they have not been caught in the spam filter. Please also add office@thefdforum.co.uk to your address book.

If you continue to experience problems, check your membership is using an up to date email address or  Contact Us

Have you signed up for to access to this new site? Do you have a Username and Password?

Have you subscribed to the new Forums?  (See above)

If you still not receiving notifications, despite following the above steps and have also confirmed that the email address used for these Forums is correct, please check in your junk folders or with your Academy’s IT department to ensure these emails are not being caught by spam filters.  The notifications are sent from office@thefdforum.co.uk.

You may also need to ensure that your POP protocol is turned on.

Click on the relevant forum icon and this will take you to the Forum. You can add a new topic to the Forum by either clicking on the “Create New Topic” link at the top of the Forum or scrolling down to the bottom of the page.

Enter the Topic Title and Keywords if you think this will be helpful to others searching for similar.

Post your question within the text box and click Submit. You are also able to upload documents at this stage (maximum file size 950 KB each). If these documents are accessible on via a link, please could we advise you to use that in the first instance.

If you are viewing topics for a period of time, you may need to refresh your browser to see the latest updates. Topics are shown in the order in which they were added. This means that you can review the week's posts by viewing the Forum.

Please contact the administrator on admin@thefdforum.co.uk as the system may require it to be approved.

Access from the main menu, click on Forum Profile and the Edit. Change your Nickname and then choose the Display Name.  Ideally please have your School/Trust name within the nickname.

Click on the link underneath the login and you will receive an email with details of how to reset your password. If you don’t receive this email, please check in your spam/junk folder to check that it’s not there. If you still have not received the reset email, then please contact us and we will manually reset your password with a temporary one so that you can log in.  Please note that the password reset is time-limited.

You can amend your information or change your email address from your Account Page (link in main menu).  You should NOT change your registered email from your Academy email address to a personal address.

On your annual renewal date, an invoice will automatically be sent out.  If a Purchase Order is required a request for this will be sent out 14 days before the renewal date.  If you no longer wish to be a member of the Forum, please let us know so that we can keep our records up to date.

Please let us know and we can transfer the account into a new name.  The annual fee is per staff member not per School/Trust.  Please do not replace your membership email address with a personal one or a new School/Trust email address.

If you would like to continue to be part of the FD Forum, please let us have your new contact details and we will set you up with a new membership.

A renewal notification will go out the month prior to renewal and at this point membership can be cancelled.  If you wish membership to be cancelled during the membership period there is no refund of the membership fee but membership can be transferred over to a replacement member of staff at no extra charge.

If you wish to cancel membership please let us know quoting the member and Academy/Trust name.

Confidentiality of the group is the key to its foundation to enable members to discuss issues and raise concerns freely. Anyone who forwards on information, shares their login information or divulges details of our members will have their membership terminated with immediate effect.

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Unless specifically stated otherwise, people shown in AI-generated images are not actual members, employees, speakers or representatives of The FD Forum, and the images should not be taken as depicting a particular individual, school, academy or event.