"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

Nelson Mandela 

For fifteen years Independent Thinking has been working to bring the best out of young people and those who work with them, focussing on areas including thinking, learning, motivation and creativity.

We strive to inform, inspire and shamelessly entertain, because education is too important to be taken seriously.

And we are committed to being unlike any other organisation in our field.

 This website shows you what we do, why we do it and who it is doing it.

All being well, it will encourage you to do it too.

Our written mission is:

'To enrich people's lives by changing the way they think - and so to change the world'.

But then, if you're involved in the education of young hearts and minds, that's what you're doing everyday.

Special News

Help two of our team help children in India and the U.K.

In November 2009 two of the Independent Thinking team will be doing something rather reckless for a good cause.

Roy Leighton and Dr Andrew Curran will be driving a 1950’s-style taxi 2000 km across India to raise money for the Rainbow Trust (supporting the families of children with a terminal illness in the U.K.) and UNICEF (supporting the ‘Born free from HIV’ programme in India). 

They need £10,000 to cover the basic travel costs and are aiming to generate a total of £100,000 for these two very important charities and they need your help to raise awareness as well as cash.

Click here for more information and to find out how you can join in with your school