Who are they?
Helicon View Learning
Hampstead Office
Suite 3
25-27 Heath Street
London
NW3 6TR
Chelsea Office
Michelin Building
81 Fulham Road
London SW3 6RD
Tel: 0203 8755346
Website: www.heliconview.com
Email: [email protected]
We have met with Helicon View Learning’s staff. In addition, 22 clients and 20 tutors have completed an on-line survey (sent to 235 clients and 93 tutors) and we have followed this up with additional short phone interviews with some of those surveyed.
The Good Schools Guide review of Helicon View Learning
The Good Schools Guide review of Helicon View LearningThe business started life in 2011 as Hampstead Village Tutors Ltd, then became Griffin + Bell and is now Helicon View Learning. Victoria and Matt Smith had worked as tutors for agencies for five years, since they were 21, and saw a need for an agency with a more personal approach. Three years later, they were getting client requests from all over London and decided to widen their provision – hence the need for the name change.
Matt is now the sole director of this very friendly service (no switchboard) which he runs with the help of two colleagues who deal with both clients and tutors, including interviewing the latter, and another who takes care of admin, invoices etc. The team is split across two offices – one in Hampstead Village and (since 2019) another on the Fulham Road. Matt is an Oxford English graduate, who still keeps up tutoring, as do the others – ‘it’s company policy that everyone who recruits and places tutors also tutors themselves so we can really see things from their side,’ explains Matt. A calmer, more measured and judicious bunch you’d be hard pushed to find.
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