A group built around education
Medhurst Communications is the core of a group that serves education and nothing else. Alongside our managed IT and infrastructure business sit specialist audio visual integration, our wider IT services, and our investment in education data and AI. One group, broad capability, and a single accountable relationship.
Four businesses, one focus
Medhurst Communications
The core of the group: managed IT services, networking and Wi-Fi, connectivity, cyber security, filtering and safeguarding, servers and storage, cloud and identity, endpoint management, devices, and Hardware as a Service, for schools, colleges, and MATs. We also deliver Capital Programmes as ICT delivery partner on new school builds.
Visit Medhurst Communications Specialist audio visualHugh Symons Audio Visual
Interactive panels, projectors, hall and room audio, large-format displays, and digital signage, designed, installed, and supported by AV specialists. Running a dedicated AV integration business alongside managed IT is rare in our market, and it means the screens and the systems behind them come from one relationship.
Visit hughsymonsav.com IT servicesDrift IT Services
An education IT support specialist with more than fifteen years in the sector and a client base of schools across the South East. Drift provides proactive, friendly IT support built around the needs of teaching and learning, alongside audio visual technology for the classroom. Within the group it adds depth and capacity to how we support schools.
Visit clickdrift.com Innovation and incubationEdEquity AI
Our investment in incubating technologies for education: ethical data, analytics, and AI for MATs, local authorities, and schools, built on the Open Education AI standard. Its products include Marginal Gains, a hosted analytics and decision-support platform, and DataLake Builder, a school data lake on a trust's own cloud. EdEquity is how we invest ahead of the market, not a dependency for the services we deliver today.
Visit edequity.aiOne relationship, broader capability
For a school or trust it means the network, the screens in the classroom, the support desk, and the data and AI conversation can all come from one group that understands education. Managed IT and specialist AV come from a single accountable relationship, and our investment in innovation through EdEquity AI keeps us thinking ahead of where the sector is going.
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