Find Your Happy with Pass N Go – a national driving school that maintains its family feel! We support our students, instructors, and trainees in their pursuit of happiness; and with a part 3 success rate of 78% (over double the national average), we really do have a proven track record of success. Operating everywhere in the UK, you truly can become a driving instructor in your local area with PNG and Find Your Happy.
Name: Stephen Round
Telephone: 0333 207 0663
Email: [email protected]
Website: passngo.com
HDT is the UK’s largest HGV training school. Since 2022, they’ve also been delivering Category B licence training and have now partnered with Acclaim Driving to deliver the MoD driver training contract nationwide. They are looking for ADIs who would like to work with them on this exciting opportunity.
Contact: Michael Hughes
Telephone: 07545 141 243
Email: [email protected]
Website: hughesdrivertraining.co.uk
AcciDON’T Driving School was formed 22 years ago to deliver fleet driver training nationwide. In the last 15 years AcciDON’T has been involved in delivering license acquisition training on several national contracts, and currently teaches over 3,500 students each year for the Army, Navy and RAF. They are sponsoring the Live Stage.
Contact: Simon Johnston
Telephone: 07774 130 060
Email: [email protected]
Website: accidont.co.uk
ADINJC is a leading national association run on a not-for-profit basis, dedicated to informing, representing, and supporting driving instructors. Membership unlocks a range of benefits designed to enhance your career and ensure ongoing success. Whether you’re an individual ADI, part of a local association, or a driving school, we’re here to help. Join us and have the security of knowing our experienced team is working tirelessly on your behalf.
Contact: Sue Duncan
Telephone: 07855 453 414
Email: [email protected]
Website: adinjc.org.uk
AA Driving School is one of the biggest and most trusted brands in the industry, there’s no one better placed to help you shape the drivers of tomorrow.
Contact: Chloe Woodward
Email: [email protected]
Website: theAA.com/driving-school
AAT offers modern, simplified online driving instructor training with expert guidance from a seasoned Grade A instructor. This training helps you pass exams and save on fees.
Contact: Jeff Lucas
Telephone: 07500 500 420
Email: [email protected]
Website: advancedadi.co.uk
Manage your diary, plan lessons, track payments, and grow your business — ADI Network is the all-in-one app for instructors to stay organised and succeed.
Contact: Connie Kelly
Telephone: 07568 666 034
Email: [email protected]
Website: adinetwork.co.uk
AI for driving instructors helps ADIs grow their business with powerful AI tools, branding, automation, and marketing strategies — saving time and increasing pupil bookings.
Contact: Des O’Connor
Telephone: 07956 566 083
Email: [email protected]
Website: AiForDrivingInstructors.com
BAS (NW) Ltd is a vehicle adaptation specialist with over 40 years of experience in manufacturing, supplying, and installing high-quality vehicle adaptations. We specialise in bespoke solutions tailored to individual needs.
Contact: Paul Speakman
Telephone: 0161 776 1594
Email: [email protected]
Website: basnw.co.uk
Bill Plant Driving School is one of the UK’s largest nationwide driving schools, offering driving lessons, driving instructor training, corporate fleet management, and ADI/PDI franchises.
Contact: Tom Hixon
Telephone: 01765 643 374
Email: [email protected]
Website: billplant.co.uk
Bright Coaching delivers the PDA Level 7 in Coaching, Behavioural Change, and Driver Psychology. The only professional, accredited qualification of its kind for ADIs.
Contact: Stewart Lochrie
Telephone: 07791 559 318
Email: [email protected]
Website: brightcoaching.net
Collingwood Learner Driver Insurance offers you a fantastic way of earning extra income whilst saving your students money with our annual or short-term policies.
Contact: Jonathan Brougham
Telephone: 07596 868 748
Email: [email protected]
Website: collingwood.co.uk
Confident Drivers provide ADI training and resources to help manage driving stress and anxiety, supported by The Driving Confidence podcast and an extensive online toolkit.
Contact: Tracey Field
Telephone: 07963 797 613
Email: [email protected]
Website: confidentdrivers.co.uk
Dash Claims is the driving instructor industry emergency service, providing nationwide dual control replacements, vehicle recovery, repairs, and claims assistance—aiming for 24-hour turnaround.
Contact: Sandy Hillan
Telephone: 01294. 693812
Email: [email protected]
website: dashclaims.co.uk
Diabetes UK is the leading charity for people affected by diabetes, supporting research, raising awareness, and helping individuals manage their condition through education and advocacy.
Telephone: 0345 123 2399
Email: [email protected]
Website: diabetes.org.uk
Independent information and advice service for disabled people wanting to learn to drive. We also support ADIs by providing a postcode-searchable instructor register.
Contact: John Rogers
Telephone: 01773 852198 / 07775 810 852
Email: [email protected]
Website: disabilitydrivinginstructors.com
DRIVE Driving School is the UK’s fastest-growing driving school, and as part of the same family as ‘SmartDriving’, we have been training driving instructors for over 40 years.
Contact: Adam Bragg
Telephone: 0800 368 9215
Email: [email protected]
Website: just-drive.co.uk
Drive.Day is a brand-new, innovative, and effortless app that intelligently supports the running of your business without the need to spend too much time on your phone. Drive.Day enables you to plan lessons, manage pupils, track your finances and much more in just a few taps.
Telephone: 0330 912 8862
Email: [email protected]
Website: drive.day
Drive-Up Training equips learners and future Driving Instructors with expert guidance, promoting road safety, confidence, and responsibility for a positive impact on UK driving standards.
Contact: Vickie Ambrose and Kim Gibson
Telephone:0795 635 2103
Email: [email protected]
Website: drive-up-training.co.uk
A lifetime of safe driving. Ensuring the vehicles and drivers that use our roads are safe.
Contact: Abigail Holland
Telephone: 07870 893 528
Email: [email protected]
Website: dvsa.gov.uk
Drivetech is a proven leader in the provision of quality driver risk management, driver training, and education for businesses and professionals in the training community.
Contact: Steve Appleby
Telephone: 07814 006 514
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivetech.co.uk
Professional call handling, real-time diary, app to track your pupils’ progress and balances, lesson reminders, export expenses to your accounting software, and reduce your admin.
Contact: Robyn Francis
Telephone: 07989 154 245
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivinginstructorservices.com
Driving Mobility sets common standards, promotes best practice, and provides training to centre staff and partners, working closely with national bodies to enhance mobility services.
Contact: Keith Roper
Telephone: 0800 559 3636
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivingmobility.org.uk
Driving Test Success has helped over 18 million learners prepare for their tests and has been named Apple’s no.1 paid iPhone app for seven consecutive years.
Contact: Mia Branston
Telephone: 07391 714 484
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivingtestsuccess.com
EzLicence is an online platform connecting learners with driving instructors. Students use learner reviews to choose, book and pay for lessons with local driving instructors.
Contact name: Joe Parry
Telephone: 0793 4204 303
Email: [email protected]
Website: ezlicence.co.uk
Proud sponsor of The Lou Walsh PDI Zone!
FBTC Accountancy Services is a knowledgeable and friendly team supporting all clients with their self-employment and helping them get to grips with tax changes such as making tax digital.
Contact: Alan Gott
Telephone: 0344 984 4445
Email: [email protected]
Website: fbtc.co.uk
GoRoadie Pro is the diary manager designed to give ADIs more freedom and less stress, in a fast, modern and easy to use app.
Contact: Michael Carr
Telephone: 07784 593 518
Email: [email protected]
Website: goroadie.com/pro
DVSA-accredited fleet trainer courses for ADIs. Currently recruiting ADIs in many areas of the country for ongoing assessment and training work
Contact: Andrew O’Donnell
Telephone: 0330 111 7230
Email: [email protected]
Website: greenpenny.co.uk
Innovative Driving Education Academy (IDEA) offers two qualifications for PDIs and ADIs, providing structured, standardised training that simplifies and streamlines the learning process for instructors.
Contact: Kev Field
Telephone: 07507 772 822
Email: [email protected]
Our ‘mentorship’ package uses a holistic approach, providing actionable tasks to improve your lessons, in turn bringing them in line and beyond the DVSA’s standards.
Contact: Diana Todd
Telephone: 07786 241 331
Email: [email protected]
Website: inspireinstructortraining.com
Intelligent Instructor+ is an exclusive members club for driving instructors who want to keep learning and developing. Subscribers access a growing library of expert video and written content, covering training, business, marketing, and road safety. Join our community to receive monthly newsletters, access free webinars, unlock exclusive discounts, and be automatically entered into our monthly prize draw. Don’t miss our special show offer—join the Intelligent Instructor+ community today!
Email: [email protected]
Website: intelligentinstructor.co.uk/ii+
i-motion designs and creates beautiful, fully illustrated instructor lesson presenters and interactive workbooks for learner drivers to help learners maximise their knowledge for FAST progress.
Contact: Stephen Sillitoe
Telephone: 07528 466550
Email: [email protected]
Website: motionbook.co.uk
Mick Knowles and Lee Jowett own and run the award-winning Knowledgeablee Instructor Training. They have over 20 years of experience running driving instructor courses, training, and development.
Contact: Lee Jowett
Telephone: 0779 5279 916
Email: [email protected]
Website: adikit.co.uk
Learn to Drive Pro creates expert-developed digital and print resources for learners and instructors, including books tailored to support driver training and professional instruction.
Contact: Richard Rawden
Telephone: 07904 396 281
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.learntodrivepro.co.uk
Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service delivers an educational road safety message, through the medium of 360-degree virtual reality films, to our inexperienced, young road users. Try our unique road safety experience in our VR van, in the outside activity area.
Contact: Kate Garrigan
Telephone: 07815 491 533
Email: [email protected]
Website: leics-fire.gov.uk
A supportive community group aimed at supporting PDIs, offering a safe place to seek help, share ideas, and ask questions with expert support.
Contact: Laura Morris
Telephone: 0798 2493 422
Email: [email protected]
Website: facebook.com/groups/LousPDIgroup
MIB (Motor Insurers’ Bureau) is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to protect people from the devastation of uninsured and hit-and-run drivers.
Contact: Josie Spencer
Telephone: 01908 754748
Email: [email protected]
Website: mib.org.uk
MSA GB offers regional centres of activity providing information, representation, services, and support. Wholly owned by and run entirely for the benefit of its members.
Contact: Peter Harvey
Telephone: 07774 139 080
Email: [email protected]
Website: msagb.com
Launched in 2014, MyDriveTime provides the industry’s premium diary and admin management tool to professional instructors and schools looking to enhance their business performance.
Contact: Daniel Hill
Telephone: 01252 757 314
Email: [email protected]
Website: mydrivetime.co.uk
An interactive online toolkit for parents to better support learners and empower them to manage the risks their young drivers will face beyond the test.
Contact: Kate Monk
Telephone: 07730 268 999
Email: [email protected]
Website: mylearnerdriver.co.uk
NHS Trusts are responsible for delivering hospital and community-based healthcare services across the UK, ensuring high standards of patient care and clinical excellence.
Telephone: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [email protected]
Website: nhs.uk
Pecodo is an accessible and collaborative online learning platform that optimises learning and convenience.
Contact: Sam Aspden
Email: [email protected]
Website: pecodo.com
Prosper2 is a membership business club for UK entrepreneurs, fostering collaboration, opportunity sharing, and wider promotion among influential business owners, innovators, and founders.
Contact: Marc Edwards
Telephone: 07518 869 034
Email: [email protected]
Website: prosper2.co.uk
Expert instructor training, coaching, and mentoring for ADIs and PDIs, with workshops, 1:2:1 sessions, and association training days to develop essential teaching skills.
Contact: Ray Seagrave
Telephone: 0787 086 1572
Email: [email protected]
RED understand what it takes to be a successful instructor. Safe driving and customer care are at the heart of everything we do.
Contact: Colin Paterson
Telephone: 07774 828 942
Email: [email protected]
Website: reddrivingschool.com
Right Fuel Card is an independent distributor of fuel cards. We understand our customers are looking for cost-effective, time-efficient options with ultimate convenience.
Contact: Matthew Dodds
Telephone: 07985 587 316
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.rightfuelcard.co.uk/intelligent
British designed and engineered connected technology for motor vehicles, making Britain’s roads safer by educating and empowering motorists to make better decisions about their driving.
Contact: Andrew Digva
Telephone: 0330 320 3030
Email: [email protected]
Website: roadangelgroup.com
SmartLearner Driving School, an award-winning school, is sponsoring the Cyclathon in the Health & Well-being Zone to support the Speed of Sight charity. For each mile instructors’ cycle, they’re donating £1 to charity.
Contact: Meg Bancroft
Telephone: 0247 509 2784
Email: [email protected]
Website:smartlearner.com
Specialist Vehicle Rental is a short-term and long-term provider of driving tuition vehicles. They offer an extensive range of auto, manual, electric, hybrid, and adapted dual-control vehicles.
Contact: Juggy Kudhail
Telephone: 01922 624 967
Email: [email protected]
Website: specialistvehiclerental.co.uk
Speed of Sight is a unique, automotive charity that offers less able people aged from six to 90 the opportunity to have a life-enhancing driving experience they previously believed to be beyond their reach. Inspired by nine-time Guinness world record holder Mike Newman, Speed of Sight makes the impossible, possible for anyone with any kind of disability. There are no passengers at Speed of Sight!
Contact: Mike Newman
Telephone: 0777 962 5185
Email: [email protected]
Website: speedofsight.org
The Honest Truth is a road safety campaign delivered through driving instructors across the UK. Our mission is to deliver no-nonsense, straight-talking road safety education.
Contact: Olly Taylor QPM
Telephone: 020 3468 1339
Email: [email protected]
Website: thehonesttruth.co.uk
The Stationery Office (TSO) is proud to be the official publisher of the DVSA. Producing all the official learning material and the website www.safedrivingforlife.info
Contact: Joshua Aitken
Telephone: 01603 985 955
Email: [email protected]
Website: safedrivingforlife.info
The UK’s leading authority on tyre safety, TyreSafe aims to reduce the number of tyre-related incidents on Britain’s roads by raising awareness of the importance of tyre maintenance.
Contact: Jason Simms
Telephone: 07753 433 007
Email: [email protected]
Website: tyresafe.org
Young Driver is the UK’s largest under-17 driving school, teaching 200,000 10 to 17-year-olds to drive each year at its 70+ venues nationwide.
Contact: Ian Mulingani
Telephone: 07966 265 980
Email: [email protected]
Website: youngdriver.eu
Speakers
Loveday Ryder
Chief Executive, DVSA
Joshua Aiken
Marketing Manager, TSO
Vickie Ambrose & Kim Gibson
Co-Founders, Drive-Up Training
Chris Bensted
Founder, Theory Test Explained
Mark Born
Head of the Academy and Operational Performance, AA Driving School
Vasim Choudhary
Senior Counter Fraud Investigation Manager, DVSA
Terry Cook
Founder, The Instructor Podcast
Paul Connelly
Owner, PJC Driver Training
Emma Cottington
Owner, UP Driving School
Phil Cowley
Director, Inspire Instructor Training
Paul Farley
National Law Enforcement Manager, MIB
Kev & Tracey Field
Co-Founders, Confident Drivers
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Activities
Driving simulator
Post the fastest hot lap on the Pass N Go Driving School simulator for your chance to win amazing prizes! Last year’s top driver won an unforgettable track day, with £500 and £250 awarded to the runners-up. This year’s prizes are still to be confirmed — but they’re expected to be just as exciting, if not better! Step up to the challenge, test your racing skills, and see if you’ve got what it takes to top the leaderboard!
Live CPR demonstrations
Join St John Ambulance in the Health & Well Being Area for live demonstrations running throughout the day on how to perform CPR correctly. These interactive sessions provide the chance to learn and practise vital lifesaving skills, directly reflecting how instructors are assessed during their PDI theory training. A valuable opportunity to build confidence and knowledge.
Test your reactions
Batak Lite is a fast-paced, compact reaction game designed to test your reflexes, stamina, and coordination as you hit illuminated targets against the clock. Quick, addictive, and great fun, it challenges players to stay sharp under pressure while competing for top scores. Think you’ve got what it takes? Come along to the Intelligent Instructor+ stand, put your skills to the test, and you could walk away with one of three fantastic cash prizes!
EV display & test drives
Meet over 25 fellow EV driving instructors and explore our fantastic electric vehicle display. Chat with instructors about teaching in EVs and take a test drive in models like the BMW ID3, MG4, Tesla M3, Mini Electric, Kia Niro, and more. Just bring your driving licence and NI number for a quick licence check. Want to join the display? Contact Ruedi from YES! Driving School at [email protected] — he’s kindly coordinating the line-up once again.