Where it all began
We were faced with many good opportunities before we started Snook. Why did we want to do it this way? Someone clever once said “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”. Sure. These days it’s more like work hard, get in student debt and move to London. We’ve always found that there’s something about Scotland the makes us chirpy. That’s why we gave up job opportunities in London and America and started making plans.
The idea is to make it easy for people to think differently and work together. And to make it fun and worthwhile too. We want people to think of Snook as an alternative route to their future; like a new way of looking at your every day life, but with the glass always half full.
We’re currently making this happen, bit by bit, with Police Forces all over the United Kingdom as part of our MyPolice initiative.
Snook celebrated it’s 1st birthday in December. One year ago, in November 2009 we had a month of social media rehab to clear our heads before creating Snook. Instead, we wrote letters to each other everyday. These letters are now the basis of Snook’s manifesto. You can click any day of the month to see the letters we wrote on that day. Every day we asked ourselves a different question…
What people say about us
"Sarah Drummond inspired a group of talented strangers to rally around her crazy idea, make a prototype and present it to a bunch of investors. In 48 hours flat. Lauren Currie has repeatedly taken the Caledonian Sleeper to meet sceptical commissioners, senior public sector managers and broadcasters and has broken down any glass ceilings that might exist around a young, vibrant startup hailing from north of the Watford Gap. Snook combine design savvy, a mean line in persuasion and the capacity to work until their foreheads bleed, coming up with unique, challenging ideas that we didn't even know we needed. Hire them. I did."
Ewan Mcintosh | Led Channel 4's investment in Snook's MyPolice.org in 2009.
Snook in visuals
