FOR MULTI-ACADEMY TRUSTS
IMP ICFP
Integrated curriculum and financial planning for multi-academy trusts.
Curriculum and finance in step across every school in the trust. Multi-year ICFP without the year-on-year rebuild.
FOR MULTI-ACADEMY TRUSTS
IMP ICFP
Integrated curriculum and financial planning for multi-academy trusts.
Curriculum and finance in step across every school in the trust. Multi-year ICFP without the year-on-year rebuild.
★★★★★ Excellent 4.9 out of 5, from 77+ reviews on ★ TrustPilot
Why MATs choose IMP ICFP
Most ICFP tools sit next to the budget. IMP ICFP sits inside it.
IMP ICFP connects curriculum, staffing and finance across your trust. It answers the fundamental question: how many lessons do we want to run by subject, year group and school, and have we got the teaching capacity to deliver them? It all sits in one place. Change a curriculum decision, and your budget moves with it.
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Trusted by MATs of every size.
Most ICFP still runs in spreadsheets. Then leaves you reconciling two versions that never quite match.
When curriculum and finance plans live in different places, decisions pull in different directions across your schools. IMP ICFP brings them together, replacing disconnected spreadsheets and conflicting numbers with one shared, forward-looking view.
IMP ICFP connects teaching plans, staffing data and financial forecasts into one shared view across every school in your trust.
And because no two state schools are alike, whether a primary with a resource base, a secondary with sixth form or an all-through juggling both, IMP ICFP flexes around how each school actually operates, not the other way round.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
At a glance: Features that drive balance.
01. CURRICULUM + FINANCE
One truth.
Finance and curriculum in one place, across every school in your trust.
02. CONSOLIDATED REPORTING
Smart alignment.
Trust-wide reporting with school-level flexibility preserved.
03. MULTI-YEAR MODELLING
Future proof.
Automated multi-year modelling of up to five years across the whole trust.
04. STAFFING VISIBILITY
Total visibility.
See exactly where teaching, leadership and support staff are deployed, and where the resource gaps are, at trust and school level.
05. TRUST BENCHMARKING
ASOT-aligned benchmarking.
ISBL-defined standards showing what good looks like for your trust’s context and school mix.
TRUST PLANNING
Curriculum and budget in step.
Trust-wide standardisation, school-level flexibility
Gain clean, like-for-like comparisons across every school in your trust without forcing individual schools to change how they organise their curriculum. IMP ICFP applies standard subject codes and trust-level settings in the background. Schools continue to plan using their own timetable structures, while you get the data you need.
Multi-year strategic planning
Pupil numbers are the single biggest driver of your plan, and they're already maintained in IMP to drive your income and funding. Model them once, and your curriculum, staffing and budget all move in step. Up to five years out, future years build themselves as your assumptions change.
One staffing dataset
Everyone works from a single view of staffing shared between finance and curriculum leaders across every school. No duplication, no conflicting versions and no version chasing. Just one trusted dataset for the whole trust.
REPORTING AND INSIGHT
One trust. One view.
Bridge the gap between education and finance
Stop the debate over whose data is correct. Shared insight brings trust leaders, finance teams and curriculum leaders together to work toward one goal: designing the best curriculum you can afford, across every school.
Evidence strategic decisions
Get a clear view of how people, time and money are deployed across your trust. Whether it's teaching, leadership or non-teaching support, make sure every pound is working as hard as it should, at trust level and school level.
Designed for every school type
IMP ICFP adapts to your structure. It includes detailed education support analysis, helping you understand how roles beyond teaching contribute to delivery. This is vital for primaries and smaller settings, where support roles play a major part in delivering the curriculum.
CUSTOMER STORIES
How trusts connect curriculum and finance.
The finance leaders who run their trusts on IMP, in their own words.
Paul Edmond, CFO
HEART Academies Trust, 6 schools
Alice Boesen, CFO
Wensum Trust, 13 schools
Chris Foster, Trust Finance Manager
Red Kite Learning Trust, 14 schools
Kate Davison, CFO
Leodis Academies Trust, 5 schools
Deborah Cole, Head of Finance
King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham, 12 schools
Steve Howell, Commercial Director
Red Kite Learning Trust, 14 schools
Robert Majilton, CFO
Ridgeway Education Trust
Director of Education (video)
Education Village Academy Trust
BUILT & SUPPORTED BY EXPERTS
Support from people who've lived it.
We know what it’s like to manage education finance, because we’ve lived it. When something needs answering, you get a support specialist who knows the platform inside out, backed by a team of former MAT finance professionals. Not a script, not a ticket queue. Specialists sit behind every conversation.
SUPPORT ANSWERED IN
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Not 24 hours.
Not next week.
Most providers leave you lagging a ticket and waiting days. We answer in under 30 seconds on average, and that bar hasn’t moved in seven years.
BUILT & SUPPORTED BY EXPERTS
Support from people who've lived it.
We know what it’s like to manage education finance, because we’ve lived it. When something needs answering, you get a support specialist who knows the platform inside out, backed by a team of former MAT finance professionals. Not a script, not a ticket queue. Specialists sit behind every conversation.
SUPPORT ANSWERED IN
Under 30
seconds
Not 24 hours.
Not next week.
Most providers leave you lagging a ticket and waiting days. We answer in under 30 seconds on average, and that bar hasn’t moved in seven years.
Ready to see it in action?
See how IMP ICFP helps MAT finance and curriculum teams plan curriculum, staffing and finance as one connected picture.
IMP ICFPFAQs.
Yes. IMP ICFP draws staffing directly from IMP Planner, so curriculum and finance leads across your trust are always working from the most recent staffing profile when allocating curriculum resource and planning budgets for the term and year ahead.
Yes. Our ICFP reporting suite provides powerful and insightful measures that can be analysed and compared across the whole trust, even when subjects and/or timetable definitions vary by school. To do this, it uses standardised metrics and groups schools with similar characteristics.
Any and all of them. IMP ICFP is flexible enough to accommodate all school types including secondary, primary, nursery, special, alternative provision, all-through and middle schools. If you have specific requirements, just ask us how we can help.
With the ability to allocate staff to an unlimited number of non-contact activities, we've removed the vague old approach to understanding the use of this time. With IMP ICFP, you can quickly understand the cost of each non-contact activity and how this is split between leadership, teaching and non-teaching staff across every school.
Three types. First, benchmark internally across your trust — your own data, fully trusted and contextual. Second, set aspirational targets for different school types and measure against them. Third, use ISBL's ASOT benchmarks: 19 industry-recognised metrics showing what good looks like for your school's type and geography, not just how you compare to everyone else. All RAG rated, so you can see at a glance where to focus the conversation.
Absolutely. We recognise that off-payroll staff can and probably will deliver part of the curriculum. Curriculum requirements can be allocated against external contractors (e.g. sports coaches or peripatetic music teachers). Their costs will then be included in reporting and benchmarking analysis, giving you a truer picture of what's going on across your schools.






