Posted on: 7 November 2025

Dear Members,

We have received a final pay offer from Ark Schools for 2025/26.

This offer is for those members directly employed on a United Learning Contract. If you are on a TUPE contract this offer does not apply to you.

The 2025 United Learning Academy Support Staff Annual Pay offer is for one year and is as follows:

This offer is for those members directly employed on an Ark contract. If you are on a TUPE contract this offer does not apply to you.

The 2025 Ark Support Staff Annual Pay offer is for one year and is as follows:

• With effect from 1^st September 2025, a 3.2% increase on all support staff salaries.

• The removal of spine point two from September 2026.

For a summary of the employer’s response to our pay claim, and for details of the pay ballot, please read this bulletin: ark-ballot-comms-to-members-online.pdf 

Kind regards,

Stacey Booth

Posted on: 8 May 2025

Dear Members,

Thank you for your engagement with the Ark staff survey. This year’s pay claim has been compiled and submitted to the trust today based on the feedback you provided.

You can read the pay claim here: ark-support-staff-pay-and-conditions-claim-2025.pdf. 

This pay claim is for all Ark members not covered by TUPE arrangements, this means those members who are contractually employed on Ark pay and conditions.

Ark and the joint trade unions (GMB and Unison) will be meeting to discuss the claim in the coming weeks and any further updates will follow in due course.

If you have received this information in error, it might be that we do not hold accurate data for you and would strongly advise that to, prevent any future issues, you update your details through the My GMB section of the website, by logging in at Make Work Better | GMB Union.

If your employment has changed you will be unable to amend that online and would advise that you contact your GMB regional office. You can find your office’s contact details here: GMB Regions | GMB Union.

Finally, if you have any other questions or concerns, please e-mail schools@gmb.org.uk and we will respond to you directly.

Thanks,

Stacey Booth

GMB National Officer for Ark

Posted on: 15 May 2024

Dear GMB Member,

The Joint Union pay claim has been submitted to Ark Schools Trust for their consideration. You can read the pay claim here: ark-support-staff-pay-claim-2024-final.pdf

This pay claim is for all Ark Schools Trust members not covered by TUPE arrangements, this means those members who are contractually employed on ARK pay and conditions.

Ark Schools Trust and the Joint Trade Unions will be meeting to discuss the claim in the coming weeks and any further updates will follow in due course.

If you have received this information in error, it might be because we do not hold accurate data.

Please complete this short survey to tell us what contract you are on: https://forms.office.com/e/B0K...

In order to keep our records up to date please can you update your details if there have been any changes by logging into your GMB account

If there have been changes to your employment, please update your details by contacting your GMB regional office.

Thanks

Stacey Booth

National Officer