If you have a suspicion that your current leases are costing rather more than they might, have them checked out for free.

Experience shows that a substantial number of leases for photocopies, ICT equipment and the like, are not operated by the leasing company as they should be.

Not because anyone in the school has done anything wrong, but rather because very small “mistakes” in calculations can slip into leases over time. Each error might be tiny, but over a short while the value of the errors can become quite large.

What makes this particularly problematic is that the way payments on leases work can be very complex. Indeed some of them seem to involve a form of maths that only exists inside the world of equipment leasing!

However there is a way to resolve this issue – and it doesn’t cost the school a penny.

We can consider any lease that your school operates, and ensure that it is being run by the leasing company in a way that it was set up to be run.

This is done completely without any charge, and we’ll make our report back to you personally, in confidence, in writing.

If then we do find that your lease is not being implemented as it should be, and you want to get the overcharged money back, we’ll do this for you – again without cost. We will simply agree with you a percentage of your refund that we will take, as our fee for our work.

So to be completely clear, if we don’t think there is a case to take on, or if we do take on a case and no refund it achieved, nothing is paid to us. If a refund is achieved, we will then receive a commission from you, as agreed at the start.

As a final point I’d also like to make it clear that we are not talking about any mistake being made by yourself or one of your colleagues at school – we are talking about the fact that some leases are not implemented by the leasing companies as per the agreement.

To request an audit simply email me at Stephen@schools.co.uk and attach to the email a copy of your scanned-in leasing agreement/s and we will let you know if you may be entitled to a refund.

You will have no obligation to proceed – and if you do as noted above you will not be required to pay anything. Instead you will be told what percentage reimbursement the company will require in the event of their making a successful claim on your behalf.

Stephen Mister