Watling Tutors
Unit 21D Battlers Green Farm
Common Lane
Radlett
WD7 8PH
Email: info@watlingtutors.com
Web: www.watlingtutors.com
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Founded in 2010 by laidback yet super-efficient Leah Warren BA (English, University of Leeds) PGCE (Secondary English, UCL Institute of Education), who has 18 years’ teaching and tutoring experience and still gets stuck in (‘the best tutor ever,’ say clients). Later joined by a part-timer who covers client and tutor liaison, while freelancers are pulled in for eg social media, marketing, tutor recruitment and finance and accounting. Company offices are on the outskirts of Radlett, complete with modern classroom for tutoring and workshops – ‘My pipedream,’ grins Leah, who, for years, ran the business from home.
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