Love to Learn
Love to Learn has been working with children and young people from refugee backgrounds and their families and carers since 2004.
We provide a range of services for 200+ children, young people and their families including befriending and mentoring support, advocacy and casework, a homework club and trips and activities.
We are working towards a future in which all young people fulfil their educational potential and do well, feel confident and enjoy learning.
Click here to look at our L2L leaflet where you can get more information.
How to volunteer
Volunteering with Love to Learn is really rewarding. We provide training, support and a DBS check and we ask that you commit to volunteering for at least 6 months (but most people stay much longer!)
Learning Mentors work with a young person once a week, supporting them with homework and developing study skills. Learning mentors can choose subjects they feel most confident in and the time they are able to make – usually after work. We’re looking for volunteers who live in a wide variety of areas and especially men!
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Homework club is at Katherine Low Settlement, 108 Battersea High St on Wednesday evening for seniors and Thursday evening for juniors. We have an hour of homework help and then an hour of activities. We provide training and support – and a fun team to work with.
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Volunteers work under the supervision of the caseworker to assist with practical support to families. The role can include accompanying families to visit schools, or to access local services such as the CAB or help with filling in application forms for schools or additional services.
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Referrals
We welcome self-referrals and referrals from schools and partner agencies. To make a referral, please contact us.
Contact Details
To find out more please contact us:
Call on 020 7223 2845
Family support: [email protected]
Homework club: [email protected]
Learning mentors: [email protected]
Homework Club Kids
Homework club is at Katherine Low Settlement, 108 Battersea High St, on Wednesday evening for seniors and Thursday evening for juniors. We have an hour of homework help and then an hour of activities.
Love to Learn Blog
New ‘know your rights’ leaflet for unaccompanied asylum seekers
We’ve just produced this leaflet specially-designed for unaccompanied asylum seekers trying to navigate the system in the UK. Written in simple English and responding to difficulties and
My fun times at Club by Mohamed
My name’s Mohamed and I am 15 years old. I started homework club when I was 4 years old and I stopped when I was 14. My
Can you help us raise £5,000 for our Homework club?
From the KLS blog: Next week we’re taking part in the Big Give’s Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign, to raise
Love to Learn 2017 Summer Scheme
We have a full programme of summer fun for the children & young people from our homework club and our mentoring scheme, but we’re looking
Keith & Shabir do the Battersea Park Run
Report by one of our lovely volunteer learning mentors, Keith On a wonderful spring Saturday morning in Battersea Park mentee, Shabir and I joined a
How to help young refugees achieve their potential at school
We are pleased to be able to share this report commissioned by Sir Walter St John’s charity, who fund our work with secondary schools. The
Love to Learn Resources
Privacy Notice
Our commitment to protecting your privacy is paramount at Love to Learn. Our privacy policy describes how Love to Learn collects and uses information about people. Last
Useful weblinks
English – the basics BBC Skillswise Punctuation worksheets More English worksheets UsingEnglish.com Englishpage.com ‘Perfect English’ Grammar site Letts have many workbooks on grammar and
Liaising with the family
Parents/ carers always want to know what is happening with their child’s education. Also, families love getting to know you, even if they find
Becoming an independent learner
How do you make sure your mentee is doing the work, and not you – questions to use: What did you understand? Which bits
Writing about a text
For an exam/test: Annotate the question and highlight key words. Plan the main points. Highlight some quotes. Check how your mentee usually writes an
Different types of writing
Writing to DESCRIBE Using vocabulary to paint a picture. Push for detail, e.g. “she was wearing a nice dress”- what colour, material, style, length
Some of our funders
