About Third Space Learning
We founded Third Space Learning in 2013 with the goal of working in partnership with schools to make one-to-one maths tutoring accessible to those children with the greatest need.
We’re a team of teachers, curriculum and product designers, social entrepreneurs, and education technology enthusiasts. What unites us all is a shared mission to help close the maths attainment gap.
Making one-to-one support more accessible for schools
Traditionally, tutoring has been the preserve of a fortunate minority, not necessarily those children who needed it the most, be that academically or socially.
We wanted to help address this imbalance.
Since 2013, we have made great progress towards our goal. We have worked with tens of thousands of teachers in over 4,100 schools across the UK and US, delivering online one-to-one maths tutoring to over 170,000 pupils, a significant number of whom are eligible for free school meals.
Today, Third Space Learning tutoring is delivered by our teacher-built AI maths tutor Skye, who has been developed and trained using all the insights we’ve gained since 2013. Skye still speaks and listens to pupils as they work through our structured curriculum of maths lessons together, but is available for schools at a fraction of the price.
Schools supported
Pupils taught
Hours of maths talk
Leading our academic team
Candida Crawford
Chief Learning Officer
A former teacher with over a decade of experience and a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, Candida oversees the curriculum, pupil experience and our tutor training programme.
Terri Higgins
Training and Development Coordinator
Terri focuses on tutoring quality and developing our tutors into excellent practitioners. She has 10 years’ experience in primary teaching and is passionate about building a love of learning.
A few more friendly faces
Tom Hooper
CEO and Founder
Tom founded Third Space Learning in 2013 and continues to drive the company’s social mission to close the attainment gap.
Alice Morris
Chief Product Officer
Alice ensures we're developing a product that is valuable and effective as possible for the students and teachers that use it.
Bryan Tookey
Chief Operations Officer
Bryan ensures the team have everything they need to support our schools and pupils each day.
Rob Langman
Chief Commercial Officer
Rob works closely with our academic and school-facing teams to ensure we’re delivering the best, most effective programme possible.
Sophie Bessemer
Head of Content
With 20 years' education publishing experience, Sophie makes sure we're creating content teachers need and love.
Hannah Searle
Primary Content Resource Lead
After leaving teaching in 2019, Hannah joined Third Space Learning to oversee our primary resource production.
Paul Coffey
Secondary Content Resource Lead
A former secondary maths teacher, Paul makes sure our secondary resource library is full of valuable free resources.
Lottie Bates
Head of Marketing
Lottie helps to make sure that as many schools as possible know about the support we're able to provide.
James Gregson
Head of New Schools
Looking to sign up to Third Space Learning? James is on hand to discuss your school's needs and how we can help.
Jenni Hoy
Head of Customer Support
Jenni is responsible for giving our brilliant customers the best possible experience we can.
Meet our board and investors
John Loder
Nesta
John brings expertise in social policy, representing Nesta, the UK’s leading investor in social enterprise and innovation
Richard Lewis
Downing
Richard has a long history of scaling innovative UK tech companies, supporting Downing’s investment in TSL
Tom Hooper
Founder and CEO
Tom founded Third Space Learning in 2013 and continues to drive the company’s social mission to close the attainment gap
