Conversation Over Borders

08/10/2026

We have had SO many messages from people asking for a Beginners Arabic course that we've just launched one! 🎉

There’s still time to join our other courses too, with limited spaces available in:

✨ Elementary Arabic
✨ Beginners French
✨ Elementary French

Our Global Language Hub courses are taught by refugees who have learnt English with us, before going on to train as teachers of their first languages.

For just £160, you get 8 weeks of native level teaching while supporting someone's first job in the UK, and supporting us to offer more free English classes! It's a win-win-win.

Places are limited - book with just a £60 deposit today: https://www.conversationoverborders.org/global-language-hub 🧡

07/10/2026

07/10/2026

A little kindness can go a long way. 💌

This message was written by a first-year university student during one of our Messages of Welcome workshops.

These workshops bring students and communities together to learn about what it is like to seek safety in the UK and write messages of solidarity to people who have recently arrived.

Interested in a workshop? Register your interest here: https://buff.ly/QYckey2

Help us bring these conversations to more classrooms and more messages of welcome to people seeking safety.

Together, we can help the next generation choose welcome. 💛

01/10/2026

Are you an Arabic speaker wanting to support someone to feel more confident in their English?

We’re looking for friendly, reliable volunteers to join our English and befriending programme to support someone seeking safety in the UK to practise English online.

It’s a chance to make a meaningful connection and learn from one another :heart_hands:

You don’t need to be a qualified teacher or have teaching experience. We’ll provide the resources and support you need!

Sign up here: https://buff.ly/5RRueOy

29/09/2026

What are Global Language courses like? 💭

“I have already recommended the course to my friends!

I have taken Arabic classes twice before and ended up dropping out, because the classes just weren't working for me.

I love the way Amar teaches and his emphasis on conversation and love for the language.”

Join Elementary Arabic with Amar this October. Sign up here: https://buff.ly/k81TtHp

28/09/2026

Sometimes it's sunny! 🤷 Sometims it rains. 🤷

Another lovely message from one of our school messages - ready to be sent out to someone who's just arrived to seek asylum in the UK with lots of love. 🧡

Get in touch if you'd like us to come to your school, university or workplace.

and remember to Follow your drem's this week 🫂

24/09/2026

There are just a few spaces remaining on our refugee-led Arabic and French courses this Autumn! As before, the response from you all has been incredible. 🥹

'Everyone has something to teach, and everyone has something to learn' has been the motto of Conversation Over Borders right from the start.

We were never just about English mentoring. Our BRIDGE project has always been about, well, bridges - building them to connect people who might not otherwise meet, helping people seeking asylum and people from the wider community to learn from eachother, grow friendships, confidence and practise English.

The Global Language Hub is a natural extension of that work. Using our years of experience in language teaching to learning to offer teacher training and paid teaching jobs to refugees who have learnt English with us over these years. We see this as closing the loop from learning to earning - and staying true to our core value that everyone's skills and languages matter.

Thank you so much for helping us make this dream a reality 🧡

22/09/2026

We asked Abou, our French teacher, what being part of the Global Language Hub has meant to him.

“Being part of the Global Language Hub as a teacher has meant a lot, a lot, a lot for me because I'm sharing my skills, I'm sharing my talent and at the same time it has helped me not to forget my language too. The money I get lets me help my family and help myself with different things like driving lessons that I would not get if I did not work.”

This is exactly why we created the Global Language Hub.

People who come to the UK through the asylum system bring skills, languages, knowledge and experience with them. We want those things to be recognised, valued and paid.

And it works both ways. Our students get to learn a new language from someone who knows it inside out, while their fees help create paid opportunities for refugee teachers and support COB’s free English programmes.

Our next four courses are now open: Beginners and Elementary Arabic and French, starting this October.

Fancy learning a language while supporting a genuinely refugee-led model of learning and employment?

Find out more and book your place here: https://buff.ly/k81TtHp

21/09/2026

30,000 one-to-one English classes.

That's 30,000 hours spent building confidence, language and belonging, while creating thousands of relationships between people who might otherwise never have met.

Thank you so much to all of our wonderful learners and mentors and supporters who have got us to this incredible milestone 🧡

18/09/2026

WOW. Our Monday Arabic course with Souradj sold out in just 3 days!
Seeing this feedback from one of his students this summer explains why...

There's still a couple of places left to learn on our Thursday Elementary Arabic course and on our French courses - but we aren't expecting these to hang about for long, so if you've been thinking about learning with us, now is the time to sign up 🧡

Book your place here with a £60 deposit here: https://buff.ly/k81TtHp

Psst... A handful of people have asked us for another Beginners Arabic course. What languages or courses would you like to see us running? 💭

See you in the classroom 🎉