English speaking for other languages (ESOL)

National and regional support with learning English as a second language.

England: national support

BBC Learning English – teaches the basics of everyday English

British Council – for people learning English and building a vocabulary

English Club – support for those trying to learn or teach English

English for the Workplace – courses for learners of English to help find and maintain a job

ESOL courses – online English lessons

Working English Digital – online English courses for refugees and vulnerable migrants

Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire

Bath College-English Language School - ESOL classes face-to-face and online

Bristol ESOL Conversation clubs – various locations across Bristol

CCBED - Online course for adults whose first language is not English

City of Bristol College-ESOL for Adults - ESOL courses from Pre-Entry Level through to Level 2, delivered at three sites across Bristol

Community Learning Bristol- Current courses - Various courses available across Bristol to assist people with improving their English Language

Bristol Training Centre ACH - ESOL Skills for Life (Speaking, Listening, Writing and Reading) course

Bristol - Learning English in Bristol and Beyond - provides information about ESOL classes, courses and conversation clubs that are available across Bristol.

South Gloucestershire and Stroud College - ESOL courses with qualifications or for everyday conversations

Weston College-English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) – ESOL skills courses

ESOL courses near you - WEA

North Somerset Council-Community learning courses - English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) courses available at community venues in North Somerset

Somerset Language Connect - bringing together learners across Somerset, who would like to improve their conversational English

Diversity Voice - Free English Lessons - For people working or living in Somerset that want to improve their English language skills

Somerset Skills & Learning- Courses – ESOL courses for those Aged 19+ and living in Somerset (not North Somerset)

Somerset.gov.uk- English courses for speakers of other languages - compiled by Somerset County Council so all courses held in one place

Gloucestershire ESOL - Learn to Speak English - ESOL courses from beginner’s Level through to Entry Level 2

GARAS - Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers- run English classes for refugees and asylum seekers

Gloucestershire College-English for Speakers of Other Languages - Improve English for Free - Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

ESOL Barnfield College – see website for details

About adult learning Central Bedfordshire Council – see website for details

NOAH Academy - NOAH Enterprise- see website for course details

PBIC Bedford - Polish British Integration Centre- see website for further details

Training 4 U Services Home – see website for course details

Adult-training.org.uk - see website for course details

ESOL Barnet and Southgate College – see website for course details

Cambridgeshire Skills - Adult Learning and Skills - see website for course details

Cambridge Regional College - see website for course details

Community Action Dacorum - Free ESOL classes for customers who live in the Hatfield/ Welwyn areas

Hertford Regional College English for Speakers of Other Languages - see website for course details

Adult Education (hertfordshire.gov.uk) - see website for course details

ESOL Course - North Hertfordshire College (nhc.ac.uk) - see website for course details

English for Speakers of Other Languages ESOL & EFL Courses Oaklands College - see website for course details

Watford Women’s centre ESOL Assessment online – see website for details

West Herts College - see website for course details

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Activate Learning – see website for details

Community learning and skills – Slough Borough Council – see website for details

Courses at Earley Crescent Resource Centre – see website for details

Slough refugee support -see website for details

Buckinghamshire Adult Learning - Check with college for dates and times of the next available course

Works For Us – contact your work coach about referral

Strive Training - FastTrack English for Ukrainian Guests

Devon and Cornwall

Cornwall Council - Adult and Community Education offer qualification courses to help ESOL learners wishing to develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and gain valuable qualifications

City College Plymouth - Provide ESOL courses starting a couple of times a year

Exeter College Adult Learning - There may be are fees attached to this learning

Odils Learning Foundation - Free English Language Courses For Refugees Asylum Seekers And Migrants

Petroc College - Course and exam fee may be payable

Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight

ICN – see website for details

Skills & Learning ACE - Courses available from entry level 1 through to level 2 over Dorset at different times of the day and evening

New College Swindon - Offers ESOL courses at all levels

Swindon Borough Council - Various ESOL courses

The Harbour Project – Swindon- Offers ESOL courses at various levels to asylum seekers and refugees

Work Wiltshire - Beginners and intermediate ESOL courses run by Wiltshire Family and Community Learning (FaCL)

Hope Community Church - Opportunity to improve customer’s ability to speak English and learn about the culture through simple conversation

EU Welcome CLEAR Project - Help to find training and language lessons for migrants in the Southampton area from EU and other European countries

Farnborough College of Technology - ESOL course with rolling start dates

The Alliance Programme - RCS – see website for available courses

Isle of Wight College - Free ESOL courses for claimants who are over 19, on benefits and have permanent right to remain in the UK or are European Union citizens

East London

Adult College of Barking and Dagenham – contact your Work Coach about the ESOL and pre-entry ESOL courses available for people in Barking and Dagenham

Ebenezer Community College – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in South Tottenham

Elatt – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in Hackney

Learning Trust – provides ESOL courses in Hackney

Havering College – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in Romford

Newham College – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in Newham

Redbridge Institute of Adult Education – contact your Work Coach about the ESOL and pre-entry ESOL courses available for people in Redbridge

Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service – contact your Work Coach about the ESOL and pre-entry ESOL courses available for people in Waltham Forest

Essex

Adult Community Learning – provides ESOL courses for Essex

Chelmsford Cathedral – offers an English for Women course digitally and in person

Colchester Institute – provides ESOL courses for people in Colchester

Harlow College – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in Harlow

New City College – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses for people in Epping Forest

South Essex College – provides ESOL courses for people in Thurrock

Southend Adult Community College – provides ESOL courses for people in Southend

Welcome to the UK – provides ESOL courses to people in Southend

Kent

Army Welfare Services – contact your Work Coach about this service for people from Nepal who have moved to Folkestone

Ashford College – speak to your Work Coach about this ESOL course for people in Ashford

Ashford Gateway – speak to your Work Coach about this ESOL course for people in Ashford

Concorde International – speak to your Workcoach for this international student English class in Canterbury

Diversity House – runs an ESOL course for people in Sittingbourne

East Kent College – speak to your Work Coach about this ESOL course for people in Margate and Ramsgate

Gurkha Peace Foundation – speak to your Work Coach about this English class project for Nepalese people in Kent

Kent Adult Education – runs ESOL courses across Kent

Kent Community Foundation – speak to your Work Coach about this English lesson programme for people of all ethnic backgrounds in Northfleet

Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) - offers ESOL support for refugees under the age of 18 in Kent and a Learning for Life Project in Folkestone

Medway Adult Education – runs ESOL courses across Medway

North London

5E Courses – contact your Work Coach about these ESOL courses across Edmonton, Enfield and Palmers Green

Haringey Adult Learning Service – provides ESOL courses for people in Haringey

Promise Training Centre – contact your Work Coach about this ESOL Skills for Life course for people in Haingey

Surrey and Sussex

Brighton MET and Northbrook College - ESOL courses

Brooklands College - ESOL courses

CALAT - ESOL courses

Crawley College - ESOL courses

Croydon College - ESOL courses

Guildford College - ESOL and EFL

John Ruskin College - ESOL courses

Strive Training - ESOL courses

Strode College - English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Woking College - ESOL courses

South London

West London

Adult Training Network - ESOL courses

Burleigh College - ESOL courses

Community Systems - ESOL courses

Global Skills Centre - ESOL courses

GOSAD - ESOL courses

HFALS - ESOL courses

LEAH – Learn English at Home - ESOL courses

Mercy Foundation Centre - Training Courses

MI Skills Development Centre - ESOL Skills for Life and Work

Wandsworth Lifelong Learning - ESOL courses

Cheshire

Cheshire College South & West - Entry Level - English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - aimed at those who wish to improve their English writing, reading, speaking and listening skills.

My CWA, Cheshire - building a community where adults & children can live free from the fear of domestic abuse

Cumbria and Lancashire

Accrington & Rossendale College - ESOL - cover all four skills in English: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Blackburn College - ESOL - courses to help you improve English.

Blackpool and The Fylde College - ESOL - ESOL courses are available across five levels designed to accommodate students of differing abilities.

Burnley College - Search range of courses

BwD - Learn English - information about ESOL classes

Carlisle College - Search range of courses

Cumbria County Council - Adult learning - Search range of courses

Furness College and Barrow Sixth Form - Search range of courses

Kendal College - Search range of courses

LAL – Lancashire Adult Learning - Community learning in Lancashire

Lancaster & Morecambe College - courses to support progression into a career or Higher Education

Linkbridge Centre - Search range of courses

Nelson & Colne College - Search range of courses

PEEF – People’s Enterprise & Empowerment Forum - Search range of courses

Durham and Tees Valley

Greater Manchester

GM ESOL - Learn English in Greater Manchester

North East Yorkshire and the Humber

HEMCC - provide English Language classes in both ESOL and IELTS

TJ Training & Consultancy - ESOL and Personal Development services

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

Action Language - free English lessons to people seeking asylum, refugees, and other migrants unable to access mainstream classes.

Gateshead Council - Skills for Life

ESOL Learner to Salary Earner - teach basic vocabulary, grammar

Employment & Skills North Tyneside - Courses for adults available across North Tyneside

West Yorkshire ESOL support

Paddock Community Trust - Talk English

Cheshire

Cheshire College South & West - Entry Level - English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - aimed at those who wish to improve their English writing, reading, speaking and listening skills.

My CWA, Cheshire - building a community where adults & children can live free from the fear of domestic abuse

Cumbria and Lancashire ESOL support

Accrington & Rossendale College - ESOL - cover all four skills in English: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Blackburn College - ESOL - courses to help you improve English.

Blackpool and The Fylde College - ESOL - ESOL courses are available across five levels designed to accommodate students of differing abilities.

Burnley College - Search range of courses

BwD - Learn English - information about ESOL classes

Carlisle College - Search range of courses

Cumbria County Council - Adult learning - Search range of courses

Furness College and Barrow Sixth Form - Search range of courses

Kendal College - Search range of courses

LAL – Lancashire Adult Learning - Community learning in Lancashire

Lancaster & Morecambe College - courses to support progression into a career or Higher Education

Linkbridge Centre - Search range of courses

Nelson & Colne College - Search range of courses

PEEF – People’s Enterprise & Empowerment Forum - Search range of courses

Durham and Tees Valley

Greater Manchester

GM ESOL - Learn English in Greater Manchester

North East Yorkshire and the Humber

HEMCC - provide English Language classes in both ESOL and IELTS

TJ Training & Consultancy - ESOL and Personal Development services

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

Action Language - free English lessons to people seeking asylum, refugees, and other migrants unable to access mainstream classes.

Gateshead Council - Skills for Life

ESOL Learner to Salary Earner - teach basic vocabulary, grammar

Employment & Skills North Tyneside - Courses for adults available across North Tyneside

West Yorkshire

Paddock Community Trust - Talk English

Birmingham and Solihull

Enterkey ESOL courses - offers ESOL courses at a variety of levels: Entry Levels 1, 2 and 3 as well as Level 1

Sandwell College ESOL courses – offers ESOL courses: a simple test will make sure you are on the right level of course

Black Country

Colleges West Midlands - offers ESOL courses up to and including level 2

City of Wolverhampton College – offers ESOL preparation for work course

Jobchange Wolverhampton – offers pre-entry and entry level ESOL courses

Sandwell College ESOL courses – offers ESOL courses: a simple test will make sure you are on the right level of course

Walsall College – offers ESOL courses

Yemani Community Association – offers ESOL courses

East Anglia

Access Migrant Support - offers free ESOL sessions

Adult learning courses - Norfolk County Council - offers online and classroom based ESOL classes

Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum - offers ESOL lessons

Cambridge English Language Society - practising English language skills in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

Leicestershire Adult Learning Service - offers ESOL courses

LASALS – Leicester Adult Skills and Learning Service - offers ESOL courses

Leicester College - offers various ESOL courses

Twin Employment and Training - offers ESOL courses

University of Leicester – offers ESOL classes for refugees and asylum seekers

Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland

Belong Nottingham - English speaking classes for migrants and refugees

Boston College ESOL Courses – offers various ESOL courses

City College Nottingham – offers ESOL Entry Level 1, 2 and 3

Community & Family Learning Nottingham – ESOL courses are held a various locations around Nottinghamshire Libraries

Community Education, Employment Advice Centre Nottingham – offers ESOL courses

Grantham College ESOL - offers various ESOL courses

Inspire Support for refugees – offers ESOL courses are for anyone whose first language is not English

Local Learning Bulwell – offers free ESOL classes

Nacro - offers various ESOL courses

NG Housing Nottingham – offers basic English classes (ESOL)

The Lincoln College Group - offers various ESOL courses

North Notts Colleges ESOL – offers ESOL courses

Nottingham College ESOL for Adult Learners - offers various ESOL courses

Nottingham Teaching College Skills for Life and ESOL – offers Skills for Life and ESOL at 6 levels

Signpost to Polish Success – offer English language courses to Eastern European migrants living in the East Midlands

Sutton Adult Education Centre – offers ESOL, Entry 1, 2, 3 Level 1 and 2; Employment Support

Ukrainian Cultural Centre Nottingham – offers ESOL courses

West Notts College - Mansfield – offers ESOL courses

Mercia

Adult education – Coventry City Council - offers ESOL courses

Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre - provide ESOL classes to newly arrived people in Coventry and those who want to improve their English language skills

St Francis Coventry - offers English lessons from Pre-entry to E3

North Shropshire College - offers ESOL courses

Benn Partnership Community Centre - offers ESOL courses

Heart of Worcestershire College - offers ESOL courses

Staffordshire and Derbyshire

Burton and South Derbyshire College - offers various ESOL courses

Central Education & Training - offers ESOL courses

City College, Normanton Road Community Centre - offers ESOL Skills for Life courses

Derby Adult Learning Service - offers a variety of ESOL courses

Derby College Ilkeston - offers various ESOL courses

Derbyshire County Council adult education centres - offers various ESOL courses

Derbyshire Refugee Solidarity - offers weekly English sessions

Jem Derby - offers ESOL classes

Nottingham College - offers full-time and part-time ESOL courses for students of all ages

South Staffordshire College - offers ESOL courses in a variety of locations

Staffordshire Adult and Community Learning - offers ESOL classes

Stoke-on-Trent College - offers various ESOL courses

Scotland: national support

BBC Learning English – teaches the basics of everyday English

British Council – for people learning English and building a vocabulary

English Club – support for those trying to learn or teach English

English for the Workplace – courses for learners of English to help find and maintain a job

ESOL courses – online English lessons

PlanIT Plus – provides ESOl courses throughout Scotland

Working English Digital – online English courses for refugees and vulnerable migrants

Central Scotland

East Dunbartonshire Council – contact your Work Coach to be referred to this ESOL course

Glasgow Life – runs ESOL courses across Glasgow

Pollokshaws ALN – contact your Work Coach about this ESOL course in Newlands

Rosemount Flexicentre – contact your Work Coach about this ESOL course in Springburn

The Well – contact your Work Coach about this service which provides separate ESOL courses for men and women in Glasgow

East Scotland

Borders College – runs ESOL courses throughout the Scottish Boarders

East Lothian Council – contact your Work Coach about the East Lothian Works service which runs an ESOL course for East Lothian

LINKnet Mentoring – runs an ESOL course for the minority ethnic community in Edinburgh

Midlothian Council – runs ESOL courses for people in Midlothian

Polish Family Support Centre – provides ESOL courses for Polish people in Edinburgh

The Welcoming – provides ESOL courses to newcomers in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Borders

West Lothian Council – offers home tuition for ESOL for people unable to attend a class in West Lothian

North East Scotland

Aberdeenshire City Council – contact your Work Coach about ESOL courses ran in Aberdeenshire

Angus Council – runs ESOL courses for people in Angus

Dundee and Angus College – run ESOL courses for people in Angus and Dundee

Dundee Council – runs ESOL courses for people in Dundee

Dundee International Women’s Centre - runs ESOL courses for women in Dundee

Fife College – offers ESOL courses for people in Fife

Fife Council – offers ESOL courses for people in Fife

Grampian Raciail Equality Council – runs a language café and Language Works project in Aberdeen alongside short ESOL for Work courses

Perth College – offers ESOL courses for people in Perth

Perth and Kinross Council – contact your Work Coach about accessing the Community Learning and Development Team for ESOL courses in Perth and Kinross

South West Scotland

Dumfries Life Long Learning – provides ESOL courses for people in Dumfries and Galloway in multiple locations

Dumfries Multicultural Association – provides ESOL courses for people in Dumfries

North Ayrshire Council – contact your Work Coach for ESOL courses in North Ayrshire

South Ayrshire Council - contact your Work Coach for ESOL courses in South Ayrshire

West Scotland

East Dunbartonshire Council – runs ESOL courses for people in East Dunbartonshire

Inverclyde Community Learning and Development – contact your Work Coach about this ESOL course for people in Inverclyde

North Lanarkshire Council – runs ESOL courses for people in North Lanarkshire

Renfrewshire Adult Learning – runs ESOL courses for people in Renfrewshire

West College Scotland – offers ESOL courses for people in West Scotland

Wales: national support

Adult Learning Wales – provides ESOL and essential skills courses

BBC Learning English – teaches the basics of everyday English

British Council – for people learning English and building a vocabulary

English Club – support for those trying to learn or teach English

English for the Workplace – courses for learners of English to help find and maintain a job

ESOL courses – online English lessons

Welsh Refugee Council – provides English courses across Wales for refugees

Working English Digital – online English courses for refugees and vulnerable migrants

North and Mid Wales

Coleg Cambria – offers ESOL courses in Wrexham

Grwp Llandrillo Menai – English languages courses for anyone with English as a second language

Neath and Port Talbot College – run ESOL and return to learn English courses

South East Wales

Cardiff and Vale College – offers ESOL courses across Cardiff

Coleg y Cymoedd – offers ESOL courses in Caerphilly, Bargoed and Blackwood at Ystrad Mynach Campus and Nantgarw Campus

Learning Action Centres – adult community learning in Blaenau Gwent that includes ESOL

Reach + - provides ESOL courses for all of South East Wales

The FAN Charity – support charity that promotes learning and practicing English at their events

Torfaen County Borough Council – contact 01633 647647 to discuss adult education classes including ESOL

Whitehead Ross – contact your Work Coach about this 10 week ESOL course for people in Cardiff

South West Wales

Carmarthen Learning Centre – offers ESOL courses in Carmarthen

Pembrokeshire Country Council – offers ESOL courses in Pembrokeshire

Swansea University Language Training Services – offers ESOL in Swansea