In these challenging economic times many of you will be interested to hear that school community trading is booming and that you can use www.schoolstrader.com, the free-ads website, to buy/sell anything from a puppy to a piano.

Schoolstrader is the UK’s leading school community trading website for the independent sector, where parents, staff and alumni can trade with each other free of charge - everything from pets to holiday homes, bikes to musical instruments.

The site was featured recently in The Sunday Times and Channel 4 News online and as a Top 50 website in The Daily Telegraph. It covers most independent school communities across the UK including us.