The Department of Education pays the cost of CCLI licences for all state schools in England. All other schools in UK & abroad need to ensure this has been covered by your school enabling songwriters to receive remuneration for songs used within assemblies, collective worship, and performances. Read more at How does CCLI work with schools?
You need to set up a CCLI ‘profile’ on the website https://profile.ccli.com/account/ and obtain your school Access Code from CCLI, which you will find on any correspondence from them or by contacting them.
Contact CCLI on 01323 436100 or through the Customer Support page to access your details.
1. Visit https://profile.ccli.com/account/ to log into your account by using your email, password and school Access Code from CCLI
2. You will arrive at your school’s CCLI home page
3. Ignore Auto-reporting and click reporting under Applications on the main page (not Applications in the left hand menu)
4. Now refer to the PDF we have emailed you summarising your usage.
5. Type the title of the first song listed in the PDF in the Search & Report
6. The details of the song will appear. Click Report Song
7. If there have been several plays of the same song, click 'Report Additional Usage
The PDF contains details of the date and time each song was used. If some of the plays refer to you previewing the work rather than using in class or assembly, please adjust accordingly; we are unable to differentiate.
8. Enter the number in the Uses box. NB if song usage is greater than 13: enter 13, press ‘save’ & continue to enter the remaining number of plays.
9. Now press Save
10. Now repeat the process for each song listed in your PDF.
11. Email us to confirm you have submitted your use of PopUK songs .
We'll contact you each half-term, summarising your latest song usage to make reporting easier.
