LEARN ENGLISH AT HOME

This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8642

To provide foundation ESOL sessions for refugees; weekly language progression and digital skills class; social activities to promote integration; and to actively signpost to other services.

LEAH - Core Application

Funding holistic language, digital, wellbeing, service engagement and progression support to isolated residents with limited English.

Learn English at Home (LEAH) empowers ethnically diverse adults, including refugees and asylum seekers, with limited English to move forward independently. LEAH's volunteers deliver free holistic language, digital awareness, well-being, local ....more

Learn English at Home (LEAH) empowers ethnically diverse adults, including refugees and asylum seekers, with limited English to move forward independently. LEAH's volunteers deliver free holistic language, digital awareness, well-being, local service engagement, and progression support. This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work

Learn English at Home clients will receive the new ‘Learning for Life’ blended delivery of free English language, digital awareness, health and wellbeing tuition and service engagement support. Trained and vetted volunteers will deliver sessions ....more

Learn English at Home clients will receive the new ‘Learning for Life’ blended delivery of free English language, digital awareness, health and wellbeing tuition and service engagement support. Trained and vetted volunteers will deliver sessions for up to two hours per week online, in one-to-one and small groups and schemes of work would be developed bespoke to the individuals, with a focus on: • Practical English skills required for accessing healthcare, wellbeing and Covid specific services e.g. vaccine information, test and trace, GP surgery timetables, completing simple forms • Information about accessing local healthcare and wellbeing services (e.g. when to use GPs, walk-in clinics, local talking therapies, A&E), relevant vocabulary, when and how to use 999 or 111. • Public health and wellbeing messages (e.g. healthy eating, keeping active, sexual health), with expert input from local health and wellbeing professionals. Funding will support the staffing costs for the project. The project will improve health and mental wellbeing, address stigma surrounding mental health in certain cultures, support clients to better understand the most common mental health challenges, engage with NHSE funded and voluntary services as well as meet others and engage in wider community activities to support themselves and their families

The group is using funding to continue and expand the weekly 1:1 English language service engagement and progression support which is currently delivered in Hounslow Kingston and Richmond. The project supports the BAME community to improve their ....more

The group is using funding to continue and expand the weekly 1:1 English language service engagement and progression support which is currently delivered in Hounslow Kingston and Richmond. The project supports the BAME community to improve their English overcome practical challenges re-engage with services and activities within their local community following the pandemic take part in social integration trips and move onto other English support volunteering and employment.

Hounslow one-to-one-service - Free holistic on-to-one language, digital inclusion, local service engagement and transition support for minoritised adults.

An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Learn English at Home (LEAH) works across the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond and Hounslow providing one on one ESOL classes at home to refugees and migrants who do not speak English as a first language and are ....more

An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Learn English at Home (LEAH) works across the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond and Hounslow providing one on one ESOL classes at home to refugees and migrants who do not speak English as a first language and are unable to access group language classes.

Literacy for Health & Wellbeing Community Classes

Learn English at Home (Core Costs)

This funding is for a 2-year tailored, worker led programme with specific focus on "in-work progression' for low paid workers with basic and intermediate level of English at the New English Seafood International in Kingston and Heathrow Airport ....more

This funding is for a 2-year tailored, worker led programme with specific focus on "in-work progression' for low paid workers with basic and intermediate level of English at the New English Seafood International in Kingston and Heathrow Airport in Hounslow.

Towards the scaling up and annual evaluation of a programme of ‘bespoke’ English language and social integration support for socially excluded minority ethnic adults.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

An unrestricted grant of £10,000. LEAH delivers one on one volunteer led home based ESOL tuition and social integration trips to refugees and migrants who do not speak English as a first language, and cannot access group language classes

changing our delivery model to a confidential ESOL 'Keeping in Touch' and 'Emergency Signposting' service via a confidential phone system and online video. Recruiting additional volunteers by developing online volunteer recruitment procedures and ....more

changing our delivery model to a confidential ESOL 'Keeping in Touch' and 'Emergency Signposting' service via a confidential phone system and online video. Recruiting additional volunteers by developing online volunteer recruitment procedures and materials as well as reaching additional clients via referral partners to access the hardest to reach.

towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to isolated migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Kingston and Richmond

Small Grants Programme 2019/20

Provision of 1:1 volunteer delivered ESOL support, as well as expanding the service to offer a community-based group English Literacy class and social integration trips/activities.

Literacy for Health; for vulnerable women in Kingston

Funds would go towards our volunteer training: a highly-regarded 45-hour course for teaching English at a very low level.

LEAH offers one to one ESOL classes to Hounslow residents with low English language levels in their homes where they are unable to access mainstream classes due to ill-health, caring responsibilities or illiteracy. Sessions are delivered by trained ....more

LEAH offers one to one ESOL classes to Hounslow residents with low English language levels in their homes where they are unable to access mainstream classes due to ill-health, caring responsibilities or illiteracy. Sessions are delivered by trained volunteers.

The project will continue to deliver their core 1:1 home based ESOL project, supporting vulnerable, isolated adults with very low levels of English.

£10,000 towards the core costs of home based 1:1 language support. LEAH seeks to help refugees and migrants within Kingston improve their English skills and to promote integration. They offer free one-to-one home-based English tuition and small ....more

£10,000 towards the core costs of home based 1:1 language support. LEAH seeks to help refugees and migrants within Kingston improve their English skills and to promote integration. They offer free one-to-one home-based English tuition and small group classes with creche facilities in the local community.

First Steps 1:1

Toward's LEAH's expansion into Hounslow so that isolated refugees and migrants with poor levels of English can improve their language skills.

First Steps 1:1 provides English language support to BAME residents in Hounslow who are unable to access mainstream classes.