Lisa has worked in schools as an administrator and also as learning support for a number of years and is now SAFE’s admissions facilitator after sending her own child to the centre three years ago. Lisa understands the fears and concerns families may feel when making the transition from school to home education and does her uttermost to help families come to an informed and supported decision. Lisa is a friendly ear for those who feel lost and confused in the world of SEND education.
Lisa is a valuable asset to the team, ensuring centre records are up to scratch, reward schemes are followed through and makes sure students who may feel too anxious to enter a class have someone to chat to. Lisa helps families with everything from impartial DLA form advice to signposting to local workshops and training sessions.

Mick graduated at the University of York with a BSc in Television and Film Production, specialising in screenwriting. He seeks to bring his enthusiasm for story and style to GCSE English Language students.

Having graduated with her initial teaching degree, Alison taught for ten years at a South London primary school where she became the science coordinator, responsible for the whole-school science curriculum. Her teaching was also recorded by the local authority as a professional development resource for other London schools. During this time she acted as an educational consultant on projects for the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office. Following this, Alison led the home-education of her sons through their GCSEs, and professionally tutored a number of other children. She ran several community science and arts programmes during this time, leading groups of children to a number of John Muir Awards and prestigious science prizes. She also obtained a Master of Science Degree (Distinction) and is cited in published public health research. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she supported children’s education by marking science and humanities GCSE papers. Alison believes that children should directly engage with science in practical ways, and sees science education as an essential tool in developing critical and independent thinking. In her spare time, she performs renaissance music, takes part in educational living history, studies ancient languages and is an enthusiastic volunteer for English Heritage.

Ant started at SAFE teaching ICT and has since gone on to join Royal Park Academy where he is now the ICT specialist. He has substantial experience of working in the IT sector and has a degree in Animation practice. Ant has found that working at SAFE has allowed him to really hone his skills in many fields of technology and allowed him the autonomy to develop in conjunction with the other staff new and interesting methods for education, including using role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons to help teach important life skills.

On his return to the UK, he worked at Roehampton University for 5 years as an e-learning advisor. These days he freelances as a coding teacher and web designer from his home in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he works on projects related to the use of learning technologies.

An integral part of launching SAFE from a concept to a reality, Andy coordinates the website and manages all inter-communications behind the scenes at SAFE. He also visits the centre to deliver one-off workshops from everything from LEGO to Human Relations!