The vPlus Festival is an online festival from Potential Plus UK, full of workshops, webinars and discussions for young people with enquiring minds, their families and schools.

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Since becoming a freelance educational consultant in 2007, Bob has worked with a range of schools cross-phase and has delivered inset at national, international and county conferences, often in a leading capacity. He has now supported over 500 schools in their “search for excellence” and...

Jonathan Hare is a physicist, science communicator and television presenter. He was one of the first people to make and extract C60 Buckminsterfullerene, the football shaped molecule, and was one of the presenters on the BBC Rough Science series. ...

Liz Million is a lively illustrator and author based in the north east of England. Usually when Liz isn’t working in her studio, she enjoys travelling the globe working with children in schools and libraries. She has successfully zoomed into thousands of peoples homes making...

Tom Briggs is a massive nerd who is very much in touch with his inner child. This means that his favourite subject is maths, and his favourite way to learn about anything (especially maths) is to play with it until it either breaks, does something...

Natalie provides specialist support and advice to families of children with high learning potential. She became involved with Potential Plus UK in 2011 after being asked to deliver French sessions for the Greater Manchester Explorers Club. Natalie then quickly realised that she had at least...

Andrea Anguera has a masters in the psychology of education and is the Senior Assessor for Potential Plus UK. She also provides training for parents and professionals and has worked with children and families for 20 years. She has two children with high learning potential,...

Jeff Forshaw is a Potential Plus UK Ambassador and a Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester. He has co-authored three popular science books with Brian Cox (Universal, The Quantum Universe and Why Does E=mc²?), and co-authored a collection of TEDStudies support materials on particle physics called Physics –...

Maths educator Bobby Seagull is a Potential Plus UK Ambassador.  Co-presenter of the podcast @MathsAppeal, and of the BBC TV Series Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Great Britain he is also author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers and co-author of The Monkman &...