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.
Contact: Simon Johnston
Telephone: 07774 130 060
Email: [email protected]
Website: accidont.co.uk
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: Christopher Graham
Telephone: 0333 207 0663
Email: [email protected]
Website: passngo.com
ADINJC is a well-established, leading national association run by ADIs on a not-for-profit basis, we work tirelessly to inform, represent, and support our members. Join us and become part of our national association with over 8,500 other ADI and PDI members. We have one simple membership price, including a free membership option to get you started quickly. Groups of ADIs are also welcomed to join us.
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: Rebecca Luton
Email: [email protected]
Website: theAA.com/driving-school
Bill Plant Driving School is one 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 is an ADI training provider and website offering techniques and resources to help manage driving stress and anxiety, supported by The Driving Confidence podcast.
Contact: Tracey Field
Telephone: 07963 797 613
Email: [email protected]
Website: confidentdrivers.co.uk
DRIVE – the UK’s fastest-growing driving school.
Contact: Adam Bragg
Telephone: 0778 820 9449
Email: [email protected]
Website: just-drive.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
Driving Test Success has helped over 14 million learners prepare for their tests and named Apple’s no.1 paid iPhone app for four consecutive years.
Contact: Boyd Ingram
Telephone: 07970 692 515
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivingtestsuccess.com
Driving Mobility ensures that there are common standards, promotes good practice and offers training and education to centre staff and related external individuals and organisations, whilst working closely with associated national bodies.
Contact: Stephen Perry
Telephone: 0800 559 3636
Email: [email protected]
Website: drivingmobility.org.uk
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
Go Green Driving Instructor Training provide a comprehensive suite of workbooks and a library of training videos to guide you through each stage as you train to become a driving instructor!
Contact: Laura Morris
Telephone: 07982 493 422
Email: [email protected]
Website: gogreendrivinginstructortraining.com
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
IAM RoadSmart is the UK’s leading independent road safety charity, providing skills development courses for business drivers and DVSA-approved drink-drive courses, via a nationwide network of ADIs.
Contact: Kieran Cornwell
Telephone: 020 8996 9600
Email: [email protected]
Website: iamroadsmart.com/business
For the past 20 years InstructorcoverPlus has worked with underwriters to ensure our ADI and PDI cover meets the demands of the modern driving instructor.
Contact: Natalie Charles
Telephone: 02920 629 413
Email: [email protected]
Website: instructorcoverplus.com
Intelligent Instructor Driving Instructor Insurance offers affordable cover for fully qualified instructors and for those who are still in training. It offers flexible and inexpensive cover which is feature-packed driving instructor insurance that won’t break the bank.
Contact: Gavin Hawes
Telephone: 0800 181 4552
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
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: James Marman
Telephone: 07929 060 972
Email: [email protected]
Website: leics-fire.gov.uk
Let’s Instruct Driving Instructor Academy (LIDIA) provide online training resources for driving schools or trainers wanting to train people to become driving instructors. Developed by Matt Stone & Andrew Love.
Contact: Andrew Love
Telephone: 07812 537 562
Email: [email protected]
Website: lidiaondemand.co.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
Online Driving Lessons provides theory, practical and instructor training (technical and business), through videos, theory software and Zoom training. We also support Hope into Action charity.
Contact: James Cornwell
Telephone: 0741 13 15 169
Email: [email protected]
Website: onlinedrivinglessons.co.uk
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
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: Tim Key
Telephone: 01603 985 955
Email: [email protected]
Website: safedrivingforlife.info
YES! Driving School offers franchises from as low as £9 +vat per week, with guaranteed hours. With or without car, manual or electric (automatic) at excellent rates! Instructor training provided.
Contact: Ruedi Preiss
Telephone: 0330 330 7717
Email: [email protected]
Website: yesdriving.co.uk
Speakers
Loveday Ryder
Chief Executive, DVSA
Lynne Barrie
President, ADINJC
Chris Bensted
Specialist Theory Trainer, Theory Test Explained
Emma Cottington
Owner, UP Driving School
Phil Cowley
Trainer, Inspire Instructor Training
Kev & Tracey Field
Co-Founders, Confident Drivers
Mike Fowler
Senior Trainer, DRIVE Driving School
David Gill
Driving Advisor, Driving Mobility
Lee Jowett
Trainer, Knowledgeablee Instructor Training
Dr Julia Malkin MBE
Special Needs Consultant, Excel Academy
Deucalion Mcgregor-Sims
Trainer, Go Green Driving Instructor Training
Laura Morris
Trainer, Go Green Driving Instructor Training
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Activities
HGV reversing challenge
Our headline sponsor AcciDON’T Driving School has lined up some of their HGVs, for you to experience what it’s like to get behind the wheel of a big vehicle. Can you navigate safely around, including their reversing challenge? Don’t worry, an expert AcciDON’T instructor will be sitting alongside you, to guide you through it. It was such a popular attraction last year, that there are multiple big vehicles to drive, to help avoid the queues.
EV display and test drives
Meet Ruedi from YES! Driving School who’s once again helped co-ordinate 25+ fellow EV driving instructors to form part of an impressive line-up of electric vehicles. Pop outside to have a chat with them, to hear what the instructors think about teaching in their electric car, and feel free to go for a spin in one too.
Virtual reality experience
Experience what is like to be involved in real life crash in the Leicestershire Fie & Rescues Virtual Reality Van. Taka set, pop on a VR headset, and be prepared to be immersed in an experience like no other. Just remember, it’s not real, but a great way of conveying key road safety messages.
Adapted vehicle display and test drives
John and the team from Disability Driving Instructors are on hand to offer help and advice if you are interested in becoming a specialist disability driving instructor. See how the cars are set up to help those with disabilities and feel free to take a test drive in one of our cars fitted with adaptations to see how disabled people can drive. Feel free to book ahead to arrange your slot for the test drive, by emailing John, [email protected].