How to buy Snow Leopard for education use?

We are a college located in the UK. Our Media Department has recently purchased several new Macs which have come with the latest Mac OS X on them. They need to be able to run certain pieces of software which require Snow Leopard as the newer versions are not fit for purpose (e.g. Final Cut Pro). We would like to know how to purchase the necessary licenses from Apple. We already tried telephoning but were told that Snow Leopard is not available from the Education Store and we would have to purchase it through the regular Consumer Store, but it does not show up on the Consumer Store web site at all (http://store.apple.com/uk). We have checked on this forum but other similar topics only have US telephone numbers to call - we need a UK one.
Thanks,
Dan Jackson (CSD Computer Technician)
Long Road Sixth Form College
Cambridge, CB2 8PX, UK.

My best guess would be amazon or ebay, and it probably won't be cheap.
If you get a new Mac, it may or may not run SL. We got a bunch of iMacs this summer model MC978LL/A - these are i3 based Macs that are only availble for schools, and they will run SL. I have no idea if other new models will run SL.

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