Arrival Education

Daniel Snell founded Arrival Education after his friend's 17-year-old brother was stabbed and killed five years ago. Daniel quit his job at US conglomerate Southwestern and set up a social enterprise that he hopes will "stop young people killing each other".

Along with partner Emily Shenton, they run a four year talent development programme for young people from inner-city communities that not only helps students develop the skills, attributes and values to succeed on the world stage, through partnership with some of the UK’s leading businesses, but also seeks to produce positive change in their communities.

Emily and Daniel came to the Learning Launchpad with the concept and their research in July 2007. They secured £25,000 of financial support and regular meetings to help develop the programme.

Emily says “Learning Launchpad took us from concept to a successful pilot. By encouraging us to hire an ops director with experience of working with schools and running programmes, we were able to speed up our progress. Their insight into how we could address the social need made all the difference, complementing our business experience well. Working with them has meant that we have made a life-changing difference to our students”.

Arrival Education has completed five of its courses in 2008 for 100 students from across London and the south-east. 50 students are now developing their ‘Success Skills’ in partnership with some of the UK’s leading organisations. In 2009 they will be working with 300 students, and aim to work with 2000 students in 2013.