both whole-school and departmental decisons may have to be made to forgo the purchase of certain materiais or equipment for the current year.holder of non-devolved budgets will contribute whole-school or college funding to the initiative, dependent on some matched funding from the budget of the dependent involved.hopefully the benefits will be far-reaching encugh to justify the expense, and the initiative may 'spark off' other similar innovations elsewhere in the building.further examples of whole-school and college initiatives on improving the learning environment can be found in the reading that follows.please read the chapter by Marianne Coleman and Ann Briggs, chapter 13 in Coleman,M.andAndderson,L.(eds) Managing Finance and Resources in Education.Compare the ideas that are presented with practice in your own school or college . Make a list of the ways you think these ideas could be developed in your own school or college