Vivify, founded in 2020, helps schools to rent out their facilities to their local community via a booking platform.

Passionate about building thriving communities of healthier, happier people, Vivify breathes life into under-utilised venues across the country and ensures nobody has far to travel to take part in social or physical activities in their community.

The Manchester company has rapidly expanded after securing two rounds of investment and acquired fellow school facility booking platform Community Hire in 2022.

It now partners with hundreds of schools across England and Scotland to generate much-needed revenue that can be invested back into facilities and teachers to benefit pupils and their education.

Russell Teale, Vivify

Led by co-founder Russell Teale (pictured), it counts Bill Currie and former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy among its investors, and former Total Fitness CEO Richard Millman as its non-executive chairman.