Community Organising For All! is the rallying cry of our latest transnational Erasmus+ project. At EFA, we have embarked on a new, European Union-funded research and training project designed to develop more inclusive approaches to Community Organising. We’ve partnered up with Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners Giolli Cooperative (Italy), POKAZ (Croatia), and Zavod […]
Campaign Updates
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We were thrilled to take part in Southwark’s first ESOL provider and stakeholder coordination meeting last night. Huge thanks to Lynda Brown and Kate Bagnall for hosting us all at Thomas Calton Centre. Brilliant turnout from 9 different Southwark institutions including Learning Unlimited, Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, St […]
Ahead of the early May elections, in which new councillors were voted into office across the UK, EFA’s teacher-organisers and students fanned out across London to advocate for access to ESOL and gainful employment for migrant communities across our city. As an affiliated member of Citizens UK and local Citizens […]
Our Summer Crowdfunding campaign for the new series of The ESOL Podcast is now live! For the next two months, we’ll be raising funds to support the production of a 18 new episodes of the show, as well as ESOL lesson plans and materials to go accompany each episode! If all goes […]
EFA and the #LoveESOL campaign have been featured in a recent story, by the South London Press, on the success of the campaign at the recent Mayoral Accountability Assembly hosted by Citizens UK. At the assembly, both then-candidate Mayor Sadiq Khan and then-candidate Shaun Bailey had agreed unequivocally to build, […]
For immediate release The #LoveESOL coalition of 32 organisations calling on the next Mayor of London to improve access to vital English classes has succeeded in getting commitment to a comprehensive website from mayoral candidates Shaun Bailey and Sadiq Khan. The coalition, comprising English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) […]
