Hi. my name is Andy Akehurst and sole owner and instructor of Swift Driver Training, I started my driving instructor training in 1998, at the time I had my own catering business, and I felt I needed a change. I saw an advert that said “ Do you like driving, do you like working with people, would you like to run your own business” my answer to all of these was yes. I started my training, and did not look back. I had two years with the training company, and got my full green licence for being a driving institutor in 1999, and started my own Driving School “Swift Driving” in 2000. I had many hundreds of students over the next 21 years, with great success, then came Covid, this was a hard time for many driving instructors, one week we could teach the next we could not, so it was very unsettling, I was very lucky to get offered a full time job doing something very different, so very reluctantly I took the job, and stopped my driving tuition and my driving school, which was a very hard thing to do. Over the next couple of years, I really missed helping people to learn to to drive, and missed getting to know people over the few months I was helping them with their driving, and I missed the satisfaction of seeing people start totally from scratch, with their driving, going on to pass their driving test, and getting jobs because of it. So in October 2024, I very happily started back as “Swift Driver Training Eastbourne” with my Automatic Toyota Yaris Hybrid. I have really enjoyed getting back out on the road, and doing what I do best, and helping people learn to drive again. Since having the Automatic car I have had the great pleasure in helping more pupils with learning difficulties and pupils that have struggled in a manual car. I hope I can now carry on Driving Instructing in and around the Eastbourne area for the the forseeable future

Thanks again for your interest in learning with me and Swift Driver Training Eastbourne