Operations professional community

Building excellence in operations, for excellence in education.

Our operations professional community is a knowledge-building space, for trust operations leaders to connect and share insights into how to run operations effectively and efficiently, so that resources can be prioritised for learning.

In this community, we consider together the emerging risks and opportunities that fall within an operational remit, to collectively drive improvement across trust operations.

We recognises the breadth of operations approaches across school trusts, from smaller trusts where many roles may be combined 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 opportunities in school trust operations, 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 Finance and Operations Conference

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.