About us
Clare Berryman
(Director)
Clare brings skills and experience from 10 years as a freelance project manager. Prior to this, she spent 9 years working in-house for Pearson and 5 years working for Taylor & Francis. In recent years her work has focused on large-scale programmes of educational reform in the vocational sector.
Michelle Thomson
(Director)
Michelle's experience is drawn from over 18 years as a freelance project manager. She has successfully managed the delivery of projects for Cambridge University Press, Pearson, Edexcel, Hodder, Oxford University Press, Haremi, Integra, Newgen, York Press and the British Science Association. The work has varied in size and complexity with projects comprising print and digital components for UK schools, ELT and other international markets.
From 2019 - 2022, Surrigo managed the successful delivery of a pan-Arab global corpus of maths and science resources for York Press. The corpus comprised a series of print and digital resources from Kindergarten through to Grade 12…
From 2024 - 2025, Surrigo provided project management on a number of projects for Haremi. The projects were for three high-profile clients: Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry and Macmillan…
In 2024, Surrigo provided programme management of a series of digital resources for UK schools for secondary Modern Foreign Languages for French, German and Spanish. This included mentoring the project managers through the delivery of the programme by advising on risk management, troubleshooting and developing mitigation to ensure the project was delivered on time…
Since 2019, Surrigo has provided development-phase programme management for Pearson’s T Level contracts with Skills England (formerly the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education). This work has involved: programme set up and team mobilisation at contract award; management of the implementation and delivery plans, resource plans, and the risk/issue registers…
Since 2023, Surrigo has provided programme management for Pearson’s redeveloped post-16 BTEC qualifications at level 2 and level 3 to ensure submission to the government within the designated submission windows…
As part of their work with Pearson on developing the new BTEC awards, Surrigo played a central role in the development of free support materials to provide additional material for both teachers and students. These delivery guides, schemes of work and delivery plans were essential to ensuring the success…
In 2017, Surrigo worked on a nine-month project with the British Science Association to develop Digital CREST awards, a core component of the BSA’s programme for young people. This scheme recognises and rewards students’ project work in science, technology, engineering and maths…
Since our foundation, Surrigo have regularly worked with Pearson, the world’s leading learning education publishing company, on a wide variety of projects including both print and digital titles.
For eighteen months between 2016 and 2018, we worked with Pearson and their partners…
Between 2016 and 2018 Surrigo worked with Hodder Education, a part of the Hodder Education Group, to deliver resource packs for primary maths and science following the Cambridge Assessment International Education framework. There were six packs for each subject…