Sarah is a former secondary school teacher, mum to three daughters and founder of Finding the Flex: a social enterprise aiming to widen access to flexischooling for UK school children. Finding the Flex was borne from her first hand experience of the benefits of a more flexible approach to education and her frustration that flexischooling is already an available option, life changing for some children, but routinely misunderstood and overlooked by local authorities and school leaders. Finding the Flex now helps local authorities and schools offer flexischooling, so every child can thrive in education.

Thanks to the Shackleton Grant, Sarah will be focusing on proof of concept – demonstrating through their pilots that flexischooling improves educational engagement for children (particularly those with SEND, at risk of EBSNA or at risk of being de-registered entirely) AND improves wellbeing for parents/carers and school staff.