Nelson and Colne College has a national reputation for educational success and is seen within the Further Education sector as a beacon of excellence for teaching and learning.
Following the successful merger of Nelson and Colne College and Accrington and Rossendale College in November 2018, Nelson and Colne College has retained its place in the College Group as the Sixth Form centre due to its distinguished stature for academic achievement.
Offering an outstanding range of A Levels, vocational courses, Apprenticeships and Higher Education provision. Generations of families have benefited from an exceptional education at Nelson and Colne College. One of the college’s key achievements is a 99% A Level Pass Rate!
They have benefitted from AFD’s Address, phone and email validation tools for the past five years to quickly validate student contact data at the point of entry.
“AFD Software works in the background to validate our student contact address, email and phone numbers. It’s a testament to the product that we’ve not looked at it for years!”
Alex Wilkinson, Senior MIS Administrator, Nelson & Colne College Group
Over 200 Colleges, Sixth Forms and Adult learning Providers rely on AFD Software’s to validate their student contact data. Find out more here.
Derwen College offers residential and day placements to students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), aged 16–25.
With four sites based in Shropshire, their students have many opportunities to experience real work settings and have a choice of pathway areas, with subjects including:
For the past four years, the college has used AFD’s Address Lookup, Email Validation, and Phone Validation solutions to ensure all student contact data that is entered by staff or students is valid.
“We added live phone and email validation from AFD Software to our address validation. Now, potential data entry errors are known immediately so they can be corrected – before being saved to our database. In addition, when communicating with students and next of kin by post, phone, and email – we now maximise the chance of connection. In short, AFD is helping us with contact data accuracy, GDPR compliance and the deliverability of communications – regardless of which channel we use to send them”.
Trevor Sharples – MIS Manager, Derwen College
Over 200 Colleges, Sixth Forms and Adult learning Providers rely on AFD Software’s to validate their student contact data. Find out more here.
Coleg Cambria were founded in 2013. They have since established themselves as a leading UK education provider. Now one of the largest colleges in the UK, they educate approximately 6,000 full-time students, 20,000 part-time learners.
Across five sites the college offers A Levels, GCSEs, BTECs, Welsh for Adults, and Higher Education provisions. The college also works in partnership with over 1000 employers locally and nationally to help students gain apprenticeship and traineeship opportunities.
The college has used AFD’s Address Lookup solution for the past seven years to help ensure student address data is entered accurately.
“If only all software was like AFD. We don’t think about it, we don’t do anything. It updates itself; it just works – glad we made the switch”.
Felicity Brandish – Director of IS, Coleg Cambria.
Over 200 Colleges, Sixth Forms and Adult learning Providers rely on AFD Software’s to validate their student contact data. Find out more here.
Valour Group are a dynamic and rapidly growing group of privately owned companies operating in the UK FinTech sector.
Over the last ten years, Valour Group has grown rapidly and is now firmly established as one of the fastest growing and successful financial technology companies in the UK and continues to excel in a highly competitive and demanding industry.
“I work with a lot of vendors and AFD Software is one of the easiest companies I have ever worked with. This comes down to asking the right questions, listening carefully and then coming back with a way forward that suits our business needs both technically and commercially.
Jonathan Stocks, our personal contact at AFD Software leaned in to be inquisitive, responsive and solution orientated.
People are often rushing when completing addresses in online forms. The speed of search is with AFD is lightning fast, the service is completely reliable, and the data returned is fully accurate.
With AFD address validation we reduce fraud, remove friction from form filling, increase matches with credit reference agencies and make better financial decisions. Everyone wins – and accuracy is key in financial processes.”
Andrew Carey – Director of IT Operations.
Does your organisation require an address lookup solution? try our demo below and get in touch with one of our Data Quality Consultants today.
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What do Panasonic, Sony and Richer Sounds all have in common?
They all rely on CefaSoft for their Point of Sale systems which provides a platform for consumers to purchase their goods quickly and easily.
CefaSoft chose AFD Software as their partners in data quality to provide address validation functionality within their systems. This allows customers purchasing high-end electronic systems to quickly find their address and have confidence their order is going to arrive accurately.
“AFD solutions are helping us help our retail clients improve the accuracy of their contact data – and have done so consistently for over 30 years. Service and support has always been exemplary.” Joe Walsh, Managing Director, CefaSoft
Does your organisation require an address lookup solution? Try our demo below and get in touch with one of our Data Quality Consultants today.
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Alzheimer’s Society is here for everyone affected by dementia.
By 2025, 1 million people will be living with the condition in the UK, and many millions more carers, partners, families and friends are affected.
Lack of treatments and postcode lottery for care means that people with dementia and their families aren’t getting the support they need, when they need it.
Their supporters ensure that people living with dementia today have the support they deserve, that their rights are protected and enhanced by campaigning, and that they can look to a brighter future thanks to investment in research.
By providing expert advice and guidance, support through their most challenging days, and a safe space to turn when they need it – this is Alzheimer’s Society deliver to the people who need it.
Their dementia Advisers have an extraordinary depth and breadth of knowledge. Combined with their dedication and compassion, they are unstoppable when it comes to providing personalised solutions that make a real difference to people with dementia and their carers.
Alzheimer’s Society partners with AFD Software to ensure address data is entered quickly and accurately, this is the feedback they gave:
“Using AFD Software enhances our in-house user and supporter experiences.
AFD address lookup API is integrated with the Alzheimer’s Society CRM system and provides both greater efficiency and data accuracy when our colleagues enter and update data. Supporter satisfaction and confidence is also increased and protected because those receiving our mailings see their address accurately and professionally presented.”
Tillat Kadri – Fundraising Database Manager
Does your organisation require an address lookup solution? try our demo below and get in touch with one of our Data Quality Consultants today.
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AFD’s powerful and flexible postcode API helps thousands of organisations to validate UK and international addresses in any web platform, application, front-end or back-end system.
Our developers page has further information about our postcode lookup API’s capabilities which can deliver responses in JSON, JSONP and XML. AFD’s integration options also includes prebuilt developer-free integrations containing our address validation API for popular platforms including Dynamics 365, Magento, Salesforce and Shopify.
See more information and developers guides here.
To try AFD’s address lookup API yourself, start typing an address or enter a postcode in the field below:
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To respect the passing and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord of Mann, AFD’s offices will remain closed on Monday 19th September 2022.
Our monitoring of urgent emails, etc, will permit us to assist with any genuine emergency.
Please send any such request to support@afd.co.uk
God save the King!
Every evening, post offices situated in rail carriages travelled between major stations on London to Scotland rail routes from the 1880’s through to the 1930’s.
Thousands of bags, letters, and parcels were loaded on to the train, with police officers keeping a watchful eye on the high-value cargo. The mail was sorted on board the train whilst travelling between stations.
AFD was chosen by Royal Mail over a decade ago to examine, process, and deliver the primary (Postcode Address File) PAF data to all consumers of “raw” PAF. This is the data that over 40,000 organisations rely on, and it is used by millions of individuals every day across the world.
No one knows PAF better than the Postcode People at AFD, with over 420 years of combined PAF knowledge and experience helping the thousands of organisations we serve to overcome their data difficulties. AFD Software remains the best choice for resolving your address data issues.
All 31 million delivery addresses in the British Isles are recorded in the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File – and this file is at the core of a huge range of delivery services – not only for physical products, it is also the foundation for strategic planning and delivery of key services. AFD Processes the PAF to produce a suite of files from optical character recognition data for Royal Mail sorting machines through to multiple-residency details and geolocated addresses down to a 1 metre accuracy. Organisations, including AFD itself, use this data to build products, services and systems that help to deliver parcels, route goods, register patients, identify students and a cornucopia of other applications. AFD’s own products based on this file, drive the computerised systems used by some of the biggest logistics and distribution organisations in the British Isles, not just the postal service.
Like any large database, the PAF file is constantly changing, and Royal Mail relies on AFD Software’s established expertise every month to ensure that the file is properly assembled, quality-checked and speedily shipped either electronically or on physical media. AFD also processes hundreds of daily updates to the file to ensure key organisations are fully up to date where this is critical – and in the last month alone, over 30,000 new delivery points have been added.
AFD’s address lookup API and postcode lookup API with Royal Mail data deliver rapid, accurate address validation to thousands of organisations. Contact one of our experienced data quality consultants to discuss your requirements today.
We serve thousands of organisations and a network of hundreds of partners across multiple industry sectors, enabling them to have full confidence in their contact data.