ESOL Read for Life - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

This non-accredited ESOL course is aimed at people learning English as a second language.

This course will help you to meet new people, read, talk and have fun, building your confidence and inspiring you to read for life! Reading is an essential skill for everyday life, but reading can also be interesting, informative and fun.

Some books help us to escape to another world, while others help us to learn new things. Reading can bring a lot of joy, but lots of people stop reading when they come to the U.K. because reading in another language can be difficult. So, join us as we celebrate the ‘National Year of Reading’, and together we will explore a variety of different books to find something you love to read, and can read in English.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.