For families
A clearer way to choose a UK boarding school.
Pender is built for families considering UK independent and boarding education from abroad — in the UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and beyond.
Matching demonstration
See what a Pender match could look like.
Tell us a little about the student and explore an example shortlist.
Please do not enter real personal information into this demonstration. Everything runs in your browser using fictional data, nothing is stored by Pender and nothing is sent to a school.
Your information stays under your control. Pender will only share information with schools when you choose to contact them.
No personal details are required, nothing is stored and nothing is submitted to a school.
The problem
Choosing a school shouldn't mean searching through hundreds of websites.
International families often have to navigate fees, admissions requirements, boarding arrangements, academic pathways, extracurricular interests and application deadlines across dozens of school websites.
Pender brings those considerations together into one personalised pathway.
Too many choices
Hundreds of schools, each with different strengths and requirements.
Complex admissions
Entry years, assessments, interviews, deadlines and documentation vary between schools.
Hard to compare
Families need more than league tables. They need to understand which schools actually fit their child.
How Pender works
From family profile to school shortlist.
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Tell us about your child
Share their age, interests, academic profile, budget, preferred location and ambitions.
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Build their profile
Pender turns those requirements into a structured student profile.
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Discover suitable schools
Our matching system identifies schools that align with the family's priorities.
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Take the next step
Explore the matches, request information and move towards the admissions process.
For families
More than a school search.
Pender is designed to help families move from uncertainty to a clear admissions pathway.
Personalised matching
Schools considered against the factors that matter to your family.
Transparent recommendations
Understand why a school has been suggested.
Admissions pathway
Keep track of requirements, deadlines and next steps.
International support
Designed around the additional considerations international families face.
Privacy & trust
Built around the trust a family places in us.
Choosing a school involves information about a child. We are designing Pender so that families share as little as possible, understand exactly how it is used, and decide when a school sees it.
Data minimisation by design
Pender is designed to minimise the personal information required to help families discover suitable schools. We ask for what matching genuinely needs — and nothing more.
Families stay in control
Families remain in control of when their information is shared with schools. Nothing is sent to a school unless a parent explicitly chooses to make an enquiry.
Honest about AI
Pender uses technology and AI-assisted tools to help identify potentially suitable schools. Recommendations are intended to assist families and do not constitute admissions decisions.
Parent-held accounts
The parent or guardian is the account holder. Children are not asked to create accounts, and a parent can review or remove their child's information.
The final admissions decision is always made by the school. Pender is an early-stage MVP: our data-processing architecture and legal documents will be reviewed before any real information about a child is collected, and we make no claim to have completed an independent privacy or compliance assessment.
How the future flow will work
The parent stays the account holder — and the gatekeeper.
When real profiles are introduced, this is the flow we are building. Children are never asked to create an account, and no school sees anything until a parent chooses to make an enquiry.
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Parent or guardian creates the account
Children are never asked to create an account.
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Parent provides information about their child
Only the fields matching genuinely needs — age, entry year, interests, budget range, preferences.
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Pender builds a structured student profile
Structured values rather than documents, reports or identification.
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Matching identifies potentially suitable schools
AI-assisted, and always explained. Not an admissions decision.
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Parent reviews the recommendations
Nothing has left Pender at this point.
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Parent explicitly chooses whether to contact a school
“Would you like Pender to introduce you to this school?” — a deliberate, per-school choice.
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Only relevant information is shared with that school
Limited to what the school needs to respond to the enquiry.
What Pender does not do
We support your decision — we don't make it.
Pender does not make admissions decisions on behalf of schools and cannot guarantee a place at any school. Admissions remain entirely at the discretion of each school.
School information published by Pender will be verified with schools before launch.