I originally used EFC as my billing company when they first came to the UK, as they brought some new ideas to the UK industry.

However, I soon felt that the information we were receiving was too heavily based on the US market, so there was a big question of relevancy to my school.

A very good friend of mine, Bob Sykes, who had helped throughout my career, told me about NEST, so I had a meeting with Gerard Turvey.

His professionalism and energy were infectious (which is still as strong today) so I decided to move our tuition billing to NEST and we’ve been together now for over 8 years!  

I feel totally comfortable and confident with the fact that NEST have got my best interests at heart, we’ve been through a lot together and Gerard, Joy and the staff have always been totally professional in dealing with my students accounts.

I love the fact that if you have any issues they are always dealt with promptly, which builds great confidence as you know you’ve got the support and backing from people with ‘real world’ experience.

I would and always do recommend NEST Management to any new or existing schools/instructors.


Their network meetings are must attend events.

NEST has helped us with a number of issues over the past 8 years, however there was one particularly difficult situation which NEST helped us with that stands out!

A few years ago we took advice from an American martial arts consulting group, with whom I went on quite a few workshops/seminars and really bought into their ‘Razzamatazz’.

The cost of signing up was ridiculously high, with the promise that only a limited number could enrol and you’d get exclusive coaching to grow your school quicker than ever.

They were showing schools taking £50,000-£90,000 per month!

In principle the ideas seemed sound enough, but in practice the results were very different. We cashed out about 50 members, had a huge amount of money come in and then BAM we couldn’t sustain it.

We faced huge tax bills, had no money left (we’d used the majority to revamp the school) and this put us in a terrible situation.

Working with Gerard and Joy really helped us to plan our recovery and more importantly made me believe in our ability to do so.


I honestly feel without NEST, my school would have collapsed like a lot of the other schools that enrolled in the same program.