Search services and support for migrants

Alternatively, you can visit the Local Resources in the North West page to download the directory entries spreadsheet.

Standguide

Standguide is an Education and Training provider based in Greater Manchester that have supported people back into work for over 30 years. Standguide offer full-time, AEB-funded accredited ESOL qualifications from Entry Level up to Level 1. We have fixed sites in Manchester City Centre and Ashton-under-Lyne where courses take place regularly and we can teach ESOL across the whole of Greater Manchester. Standguide are rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted, this means learners can expect:

High-quality learning content
Expert tuition
Support for additional needs.

Once complete, we offer onward progression and further support to other AEB provision across Greater Manchester. ESOL courses are available to Greater Manchester residents who are unemployed or economically inactive and aged 19+ on or before 31/08/2023. Other eligibility criteria apply, please contact for further information. How to apply for ESOL classes: If you live in Manchester or Greater Manchester and want to learn English, Manchester ESOL Advice Service can help you find the right learning opportunity. They can also signpost you to other support if you’re new to the UK. To find out which course is right for you, go to the GM ESOL Advice Service website and fill in a short enquiry form for the borough of Greater Manchester where you live. You will then be contacted about an ESOL assessment in your local area.

WEA (Worker’s Educational Association) – Manchester

WEA is a charity that offers courses for adults in local communities and online. Learn new skills, improve your English, explore arts and crafts and more. WEA courses are held all over the UK in lots of locations and they offer a wide range of free short (e.g 1-4 month) ESOL courses – please go onto their website to check current course information and to enrol.

Equal Education Places

EQUAL EDUCATION CHANCES is a charity organisation founded in 2017. We support families raising a disabled child. We promote youth social action. Offer empowerment opportunities to adults and advocate for migrants who are seeking school places, jobs or disability support. We also have conversational ESOL classes, please email for more information.

Barnabus

Christian charity that runs a homelessness drop-in, food, clothing, 1-2-1 advice and activities.

42nd Street

Specialist provider of Art Psychotherapy and lead arts organisation for displaced people in the region. Also running Festival 31; annually having conversations in the wider communities about displacement and resettlement through creativity. Supporting artists of displaced experience.

African Caribbean Care Group

Health and social care to the African Caribbean community. They provide a range of services, including advocacy, arts and craft, career support, health promotion, lunch clubs, music therapy and a nurse drop-in clinic.

Ananna – Manchester Bangladeshi Women’s Organisation

Ananna has empowered women for over 30 years across Greater Manchester. We provide meaningful activities, support, information and signposting, particularly for disadvantaged women that are survivors of domestic abuse or have struggled with mental health. We create a safe, welcoming and inclusive space that is led and run for women by women, keeping service users at the heart of decisions and developments. Ananna promotes social, financial, economic and political independence and minimises the adverse effects of deprivation. Ananna is proud of the community it serves and celebrates the diversity within it.

Host Nation

Every refugee deserves a friend. We vet and train good local volunteers to meet a local refugee or asylum seeker for 1:1 friendship. Our scheme supports well-being, loneliness and language skills.