https://www.createeducation.com/loan-scheme/

If your school is interested in trialling these technologies, we will support you by providing you with a 3D Printer,3D Scanner or Vaccum Former and any necessary consumables on loan for a period of up to 4 weeks. Allowing you to complete your project and do all the making you require with the students in school.

A £100 deposit is payable in advance. All we ask in return is that at the end of your loan period you share your experiences, project ideas and any classroom resources you use with the CREATE Education Project to help others in the community. When the machine is returned along with the required community content form and supporting images or files your £100 deposit will be refunded in full. If you decide to keep and purchase the technology, your £100 deposit will be discounted from the retail price. Take a look at some of the projects others have run whilst benefiting from a loan machine below:

Please note:Our loan scheme is very popular and although we have several 3D Printers, 3D Scanners and Vacuum Formers available to support the scheme, we may not have a machine available immediately. If you are planning a future project, please contact us so that we can advise on availability and schedule a potential date for the loan period. We also recommend that you have a project in mind prior to the loan period and start the students off with any necessary design work so that when you receive your machine, you are ready to use it straight away and then you can make full use of it during your loan period.

How to apply

Follow these simple steps to participate in our loan scheme:

1. Either fill in the online form below or download and complete the loan agreement form. This contains all the terms and conditions of the loan scheme, please read the agreement carefully.
2. If you have completed the online form we will get back to you with further details of your loan. If you have downloaded the form, email the completed loan agreement form to Jessica Perry at j.perry@createeducation.comalong with your preferred loan dates and a brief overview of any projects you have in mind for the loan period. You will be advised of machine availability by return email.
3. Download our getting started guide, this will take you through the process of preparing to run your project.
4. Make sure you have access to all the required software for your project as detailed in the getting started guide.
5. Plan your project. Take a look at the resources and blog for inspiration and ideas.
6. Get students fired up with one of our introduction to 3D printing lessons.
7. Start the design work for your project with the students while you wait for the printer to arrive.
8. Arrange for the £100 deposit to be paid to CREATE Education ahead of the loan period start date.  Please ask finance to contact our office to obtain bank details. 01257 276116 option 1.
9. When your machine arrives, carefully un-package it and keep all packaging safe for return postage. Create your projects and have fun exploring capabilities of the 3D printer, 3D Scanner or Vacuum Former with your students. If you have any technical problems contact our support team atsupport@createeducation.com or call directly on01257 276 116 option 2.
10. At the end of your loan period package up the machine in its original packaging and return it to us.
11. Most importantly don’t forget to share your work and experiences with the CREATE Education community. Complete the “Community content form” and share your project planning and resources and/or write a blog post and share this along with suitable photographs and a completed photo consent form as a case study. Please email/share all content with Sonya ats.horton@createeducation.comyou and your school will be credited with all published work and content will be sent to you for approval prior to being published on the website.