Supporting Families, Learning Communities, Schools & Individuals
We are an educational not-for-profit with deep roots - our team has been working in education and Self Managed Learning for over 40 years.
Our mission is to empower parents, learning communities, schools and individuals to create new, flexible approaches to learning - particularly for those who feel underserved by traditional systems. We work with families navigating home education, neurodivergence, and mental health needs, as well as with adults seeking purposeful learning throughout life.
Our Focus Areas
Families
Guidance, toolkits and mentoring to help you support your child’s learning - whether home-educating, flexi-schooling or in school.
Learning Communities
Support and consultancy for those setting up or growing community-based learning groups grounded in Self Managed Learning principles.
Schools
Programmes for schools wishing to embed SML approaches - building autonomy, motivation and lifelong learning skills in students.
Organisations
A proven, personalised approach to developing people and organisational performance
A well-established approach, built over decades
Self Managed Learning isn’t a new idea or a quick alternative to what already exists. It’s a well-developed approach, shaped through over 40 years of real practice.
It has been used across schools, learning communities and organisations - supporting people to take ownership of their learning and development in meaningful, lasting ways.
At the heart of this work was SML College in Brighton, which ran successfully for 24 years. Since then, the work has continued to evolve through the SML Alliance — building on that experience and extending it into new contexts.
This is not theory. It’s a practical, proven approach that continues to adapt to the world we’re living in.
Insights on Self Managed Learning
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Carmel Kent's Reflections on Opening The Harbou...
Opening The Harbour, a Self Managed Learning centre in Oxford, brought together two strands of my life that had rarely met — my academic and personal journeys. As an academic,...
Carmel Kent's Reflections on Opening The Harbou...
Opening The Harbour, a Self Managed Learning centre in Oxford, brought together two strands of my life that had rarely met — my academic and personal journeys. As an academic,...
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Setting Up SML Hub Liverpool
What began as two home-educating mums trying to plug a gap for their adolescent children, evolved into something deeply transformative. Setting up SML Hub felt like a journey in the dark...
Setting Up SML Hub Liverpool
What began as two home-educating mums trying to plug a gap for their adolescent children, evolved into something deeply transformative. Setting up SML Hub felt like a journey in the dark...
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AI: The End Of Civilisation?
When I was scribing for a student doing his GCSEs in the summer I pondered on the instrument that I was using. A ball-point pen – or biro as we...
AI: The End Of Civilisation?
When I was scribing for a student doing his GCSEs in the summer I pondered on the instrument that I was using. A ball-point pen – or biro as we...