Education

Built around the demands of education.

When essential building services fail, the impact on education can be immediate. From heating and hot water to catering equipment, ventilation and specialist facilities, unexpected breakdowns can disrupt teaching, learning and the wider school day.

First in Service provides planned and reactive maintenance across education estates, helping schools, colleges and universities maintain safe, compliant and operational environments.

24/7/365
support

Nationwide Coverage

Directly Employed Engineers

Multi-Service Delivery

One partner.
Multiple services.

From classroom to kitchen, we provide a complete range of maintenance services to keep your estate running smoothly.

Gas & Plumbing

Heating, hot water, gas safety, plumbing and reactive repairs.

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Air Conditioning & Refrigeration

Cooling, refrigeration, AC and HVAC maintenance.

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Commercial Catering Equipment

Service, repair and planned maintenance for commercial kitchen equipment.

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Mechanical Ventilation & Extraction

Ventilation, kitchen extraction and TR19 cleaning to help maintain safe, compliant education environments.

Explore Ventilation

Facilities Management

Planned and reactive hard FM support across education estates.

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Commercial Cleaning

Specialist cleaning supporting safe, clean and presentable education environments.

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We understand
the pressures of education.

Live learning environments

Maintenance with minimal disruption to students, staff and teaching.

Multi-site estates

Consistent service, standards and reporting across schools, campuses and trusts.

Learning-critical services

Rapid support when heating, hot water, ventilation or catering equipment fails.

Compliance & safeguarding

Helping estates teams manage statutory maintenance requirements while working safely in education environments.

Repair vs Replace

Practical recommendations based on asset condition, reliability, risk and whole-life cost.

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“First in Service provide reactive support across Gas & Plumbing, Air Conditioning, Commercial Catering, Ventilation and Facilities Management under a contracted hard services agreement as a preferred contractor. The team consistently go above and beyond, including supporting with resident meetings and discussions where required. Jason and the wider team are friendly and professional, delivering a great service with attention to detail that is always appreciated.”

Anon

Multisite Care Home, Facilities Manager

One simple solution
for education.

We combine nationwide capability with a personal approach, giving
education estates a single partner for planned and reactive maintenance.

One partner

Maintenance services through one relationship.

Nationwide support

Supporting geographically dispersed education estates.

24/7/365

Helpdesk and reactive support whenever it’s needed.

Directly employed engineers

Greater consistency, control and accountability.

Planned + reactive

From preventative maintenance to emergency response.

Experience you can trust.

We're proud to support schools, colleges, universities and multi-academy trusts across the UK.

Let’s talk about your estate.

Whether you're managing a single school, university campus or multi-academy trust, talk to our team about your planned and reactive maintenance requirements.

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Keeping schools running how they should.