The Department announced the Zones in terms that assumed a fairly strong degree of financial commitment from business, but in fact the response was mixed. Most businesses involved in the Zones did not donate significant amounts of cash; instead they were more interested in bringing business cultures and management styles to education services. They did this in different ways: for example through using their senior managers as mentors for head teachers, through using their headquarters as locations for EAZ meetings, and by providing technical assistance with school budgeting and staffing. The interests of business, moreover, were sometimes at odds with the social inclusion aspects of the EAZ agenda.