The safety of our Luminaries is paramount. Each online summit is recorded, and all our experts receive comprehensive NSPCC safeguarding training and undergo enhanced DBS checks (or equivalent). Summits are regularly audited to ensure our experts are equipped with the skills to handle whatever is thrown at them, while maintaining a positive, safe space for learning.

Absolutely not! Coding is one of the skills we’ll teach your child during their Quest. They’ll then be able to apply that learning as they create apps, chatbots, websites, and more. On the flip side, if your child does have experience of coding when they join a Quest, we’ll take that into account and ensure they’re given ample opportunity to develop their talent.

Our Quests are developed in conjunction with experts from Stanford University and run by trained facilitators from all over the world. Amongst our talented leaders you’ll find forward thinking graduates from the likes of University College London, Harvard, and Minerva. Each of them has extensive experience of delivering exceptional enquiry-based guided learning and will provide your child with the tools they need to succeed.

Where do we start? Luminaries leave our Duke of Edinburgh accredited Quests equipped with a raft of transferable skills. They’ll learn entrepreneurship, coding, and critical thinking. They’ll develop the invaluable ability to communicate and collaborate with people from all walks of life, and to distill complex information into its basest form. These driven young people become driven adults, securing places in universities of their choosing and becoming highly employable as a result.

Each Quest brings together a maximum of ten participants from all over the world. We tend to group our Luminaries roughly by age but strive to ensure diversity in terms of geography wherever possible.

Lumi Quests typically run over a six month period with one 90 minute live session per week, and sometimes 3 week hackathons during holidays. This is complemented by half an hour to an hour’s worth of guided study offline. If you’re joining through a school, the sessions may take place during those hours. Otherwise, they are arranged to enable participation from young people in as many locations as possible.

Yes! Joining us for a Quest Drive allows you to take the Lumi programme for a spin with no obligation to subscribe. You can find more info here.

We’re confident they’ll love it, but if that’s not the case you’re under no pressure to sign up for the full programme. At Lumi we value openness and honesty above all, which is why we’ve made cancelling easy peasy for any child that decides they don’t want to go the distance after their Quest Drive.