Communications professional community

Our community for school trust communications and marketing

Communications - how we talk about ourselves and to each other - is crucial in helping school trusts operate effectively. Whether it is sharing messages with pupils and parents, or keeping staff and other stakeholders involved, it can make all the difference in delivering effective organisation.

Our communications professional community recognises the breadth of communications approaches across school trusts, from smaller trusts where the communications role may be integrated with other functions, to larger trusts with regional teams.

We aim to provide support and development opportunities, through a blend of expert input on key practice challenges, facilitated discussion, and networking.

The community offers a safe and supportive environment in which to develop your understanding of some of the key challenges related to communications in schools, through:

Termly online community meetings featuring expert voices
Topical webinars on emerging issues
Our community site, which connects you with trust leaders across the country through a dedicated website and mobile apps
Community resources and blogs from our members and partners
Priority access to our annual in-person CST Communications Summit

Our professional communities are an integral part of CST membership, and taking part is open to all staff and governance volunteers of member trusts.

How to join

If you already have a MyCST login

If you are already registered for MyCST, CST's personal registration for employees and governance volunteers at member trusts, you can add professional communities to your account using our community registration form.

If you are not yet registered for MyCST

MyCST is CST's personal regisration for employees and governance volunteers at member trusts. Registration unlocks your access to member benefits, include exclusive resource on this website, our briefing emails, and our professional communities.

If your trust is a CST member you can sign up using our MyCST registration form.