Company registration number. 06909738 Charlty re8iStration number.. 1133268 EFA London IA company limlted by 8uaranteel Annual Report and FSnanci31 Statements forthe Year Ended 31 July 2025 Field Sullivan Limited 9 Hare & Billet Blatkheath SE3 ORB EFA London Contents Reference and Administrative Detsits Trustees, Report 2to28 IndEpendent Examiner's Report 29to30 Statement of Flnancial Activitles 31 Balance Sheet 32 Statement of Cash Flows 33 Notès to the Financial Slatements 34to47 EFA London Reference and Adminlstratlve Detai15 Trustees Mèlanie Cooke Sho Konno Vivien bfe Fella Meftah Leila Kate Mulloy Annalibera Refuto Eva Vargas Diaz Dermot Bryers 5¢cretsry Charity Registration Number 1133268 Company Reiistratlon Number 06909738 The charlty is incorporated in En8land and Wales 110 Hassocks Road London SW16 5EZ Relstered Office Indeperrflent Examiner Fleld Sullivan Limitsd 9 Hare & Billet Blackheath SE3 OR Page I EFA London Trnslees, report EFA London Annual Report 1st August 2024- 31s* July 2025 Charity Number: 1133268 Company Number: 06909738 Pa8e 2 EFA London TNstee< report Contents G1o55ary of *¢ronyms and abbreviations AdTDini3tra¢ive detsib Exe¢u¢ive te#m?s St8temeDt Summary of key achievements Strate￿? Vision, goals, purpose, alM￿￿etivItIeS Approach and Methodology Participants and partners 12 Looking back 15 Summary of our courses 17 A¢hievements in relation lo our goals and aims 21 Looking ahead 24 Trustees and Governance 25 Board meetings & other activities 27 ststement on public benefit 27 Reserves Policy 27 Governing document 27 Statement of Trusle¢s' ResporL8ibililies 28 Accounts Independent Examiners Report 29 Staternent of Financial A¢livili¢s 31 Balance Sheet 32 Statement of Cash flows 33 Notes 34 Page 3 EFA London Trustees, r¢port Glo￿ary of acronyms and abbreviations CPD Continu¢d Professional tkvelopment EAL English as an Additional Language EFA English for Action (EFA London) ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages ESL English as a Second Language FE Further Educaiion HASL Housing Adion Southwark and Lwnbeih ICB Integrated Care Board NATECLA National Asso¢iation for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults NEON New Economy Organis¢rs NetWOTk NCIL Neighbourhood Community Infrastrncture Levy NHS National Health Servi¢¢ NOCN National Open College Network QTLS Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills IWGB International Workers Union of Great Britain Pa8e 4 EFA London Trusteeg report Administrative details The TTU5tees present their report and fjnancial statements for the ￿riod endirtg 31 July 2025. This is a Directors, report required by s417 of the Companies Act 2006 and all Trust¢¢s are Directors. Dlre¢¢ors and Trustees The Dire¢lors (2024125) of the charitabl¢ company are its Tnjstees for the purpose of charity law. Dr. Melanie Cooke Daniel Michael GTtitters Larysa Agbaso Sho Konno Jessica Walkee Fella Meftah Annaliberd Refuto Leila Isolda Liborio Chair Treasurer Mulloy Company S¢¢retsry Dern￿t Bryers Con3ti¢utlon EFA London is a company limited by guar8nl¢e (number 6909738) with no share capital and is a regisiered charity (number 1133268) governed by its articles of association. Prior to registration. the organisation was known as Ens.liJhfor Aclion. Reglstered otTiee 110 Hassocks Rd, SW16 5EZ Accountants Field Sullivan Limite4 9 Hare and Billet Road. BlaCkheat￿ London. SE3 ORB Bankers The Co-operative Bank, PO Box 250, Skelmersd814 WN8 6Wf Web51te www.efalondo Stepped down 30th January 2025 Stepped down 21st May 2025 Stepped down 2tst May 2025 Stepped down 15th November 2024 Page 5 EFA London Trusted report Executive Team Statement EFA London (English for Action) supp)rts migrants in the UK to gain the18nguage. skills and nelworks they need to chang¢ Ih¢ir lives and COTnmunities for (he belter. We know that migrant4 especially those with relatively low levels of English: suffer disproportionately from the impact of poverty and inequality. They Can be, must be, and often are, at the forefront of action to make our society fairer and more 4ual. Starting from the English-learning for migrdnt comtnunities. our work benefit5 so¢i¢ty as a whole. In 2024125 net migrdtion dropped significantly from previous years and government poli¢i¢s made it harder for people to move to the UK and a combination of a sttrugglingy economy and the hostile environment saw large numbers of emi￿ants from the UK. Demand for our classes and other activities remained high, however, and there is just one place in an ESOL class for every eighi people who need one. Our classes are full, waiting lists long and community ESOL fairs are really popular. This year across our r)v¢ community ESOL faits we helped 217 people find a class with a local provider. As well as to help migrant communities access ESOL, our purpose is to engage ESOL students in Meanin￿￿[ action for social justice, building understanding and planning action from the cl￿rOOM. There are four main themes for this learning and action-. housin& Worke￿ ri￿ls. ac¢e5s lo ESOL and health. With support from People's Health Trust and the Impact on Urban Health we have brought housingp and health together, OTgani5ing for better housing conditions to improve our participants. and their familieslcommunities, health. We're finding that not only does il help people to gel rehoused and much-needed repait3 done, but people feel happier and healthier taking part in the process. EFA students continue lo drive the Living Wage campaign. especially in SA)Uth London. ali)ngside other members of Citizens UK and the IWGB Union. EFA was bom from the Living Wage Campai￿). OUT fi]s1 classes were for hotel workeJ3 organisin&F to improve pay and conditions almost twenty years ago. Lamentably, in-work Fx>vety is even worse now than it was then and migranl communities continue to bear the brunt of this. This y¢8T we worked in partnership with Katherine Cree ChuT¢h to provide ESOL and organising training for low-paid workers at the ¢hurch and we're busy Setting up a sitnilar project, a worker centre, with Christ Church Southwark. EFA participants t￿k action that resulted in the British Film Institute and NHS England both agreeing to pay the Real Living Wage in 2024125. This year was a good one for raising money and expanding, and we're delighted to w¢lcome Shah. Gunes. Fiona and Julie lo our fabulous staff team. Signed, rA 6•s•f on behaifof the Executive Team { Adela Belecova *nd Dermot Bryers) Page 6 EFA London Trustee< report 2024-25 Key achievements at a glance ESOL 534 people allended at least flve of our sessions (28 fewer than last yearl, with 560/0 accessing ESOL provision for the first time through EFA, helping to meet our goal to improve accessibility io leaming. 950/0 of participants "agreed" or "strongly agreed" they h￿1 impmved their language skills at the end of the Course. 26 ESOL COUTses in seven boroughs (two more courses than last year), maintaining partnerships with host community venues in Hackney, Greenwich, Lambeth, Souihwark, Wandsworth, and Tower Hamlets and starting a new project with King's College London ¢$￿¢1allY for the Larin Am¢rican communities in South London. Continued ihe Walk and T￿k group, reading group and conversation club to support participant5, m¢nlal healih and language skills. Partiripatory ESOL trainings delivered to six external organisatiorLS and 82 participants and several presentations to a rang¢ of audiences. Community Organising and Action The ESOL fairs ￿rO$S five boroughs helped us build relationships with over 25 ESOL and further education providers across London and supported 217 people io find courses. Multilingual housing organising in Tower Haml¢ts resuitsd in action th& secured suptK>rt from councillors and lo¢al MP and a Tneeting wilh Clarion Housing Association ihat resulted in agreements to improve the ￿paIrS proces8 and communication with loca] ffsidents. Continued the Community Organising for All project, alongside partners from Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, producing a new website to support organisers, ¢ducators and activists lo engage multilingual communities groups we ran training sessions for 40 practitioners. EFA teachers and students continued to lead actions and participate in strategy leaJns and action teams with Ciiizens UK partners in Wandsworth, Greenwich. Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Southwark. As well as the progr¢ss across our priority campaign areas the world provides lead¢rship development opwrtunilies and civic participation skills. Page 7 EFA London Trusteeg report EFA and HDusingAction Southwark and Lambeth's housing action group continued to provid¢ an essentia] spa¢¢ for advice, mutual support and organising on housing related issues. New fvnding has enabled us to de¢pen this housing organising in south London. Participatory theatre is more and more integral io our community organising and l¢arning. This y¢ar our theatre group developed a play to communicale the barriers io accessing ESOL in London and perforn)ed it several limes to build Ih¢ir ¢ampaign team, develop political asks and engage decision-tnakers (s¢e page 23). Our operations Raised £564.308 in lotsl, of which exactly 50Y• was unrestricted funding and 50•/0 was restricted funding (see accounts, page 31). Income is significantly higher than last yew. which we aTe really pleased with given the challenges of raising money from trusts ond foundations these last two years. Continued with an executive team instead of a single chief ¢xecutive. This was a team of two this year (Adela Belecova and Dem)ot Bryers) with plans to expand it in the new year. We were delighted to welcome Fiona Norris to OUT team, where she will add experience and know-how to our fundraising and also allow Anna to devote more lime to communications and monitoring and evaiuation. Pay ha5 kept pa¢¢ with inflation and the staff team indicate& in a thoroiigh staff listening process, they are broadly happy with the equal pay policy a￿1 the level pay is sel to. No staff left this year, after a few years of relatively high turnover. Page 8 EFA London TN5tees' report Strategy Vision Migrants in the UK have the lat)guage, skills, knowledge and relationships to ihrive and help create a fair and equal society. Purpose Ensure migrants have access to action-orientated, participatory ESOL ¢l&ss¢s and ￿mMunIty organising opportunities that equip them to bring about positive change for themselves their communities and wider society Aimslaetivities Provide participatory, action-orienta*d ESOL cla55¢5 Build power through community organising Take action logeih¢r on the issues OUT wmmunities care about Develop and share th¢se methods (community organisingand ESOL) through resea￿￿ trdining and external communicalions Catnpaign for b¢Mer ESOL provision locally (in our local communities) and across the UK. 2025 - strategy refresh We started the process of refreshing our strategy in early 2025, having reach¢d the end of the three year period of our previous strategy. Adela and Dermot designed ihe process in executive t¢am meetings with input from trnstees. We identified four main groups we need to involve: l - Ttwstee& 2 - Siaff, 3 - Participants. 4- Volunteers. The executive team ideniified some of the key questions emerging from conversations with colleagues, trusrces, participants, volunteers and ¢xternal partner5, b¢aring in mind changes to the environment we operate in. Using these key questions, we ¢reated a set of stotements intended io provoke a strong response. for exampl¢'. "EFA is more concerned with developing siudents, capacity lo lake action rather than the tangible results, th¢ changes themselves" in order to encourage op¢n and meaningful d¢bate. The sr*ements ￿lOnged to five categorie5: purpos¢ I value5, classrootn / p¢dagogy, organising I campaignin& operdtional and governa￿¢ / culture. Page 9 EFA London Trnsiees, report Tl)en based on conversations with people across the organisalion and our assessment of Ihe external context, we chose the most relevant statements to take to Irusl¢¢s, s¢aff and participants for discussion in a dedicated strategy refresh workshop. In addition to debating these issu￿dnVen statements, during th¢ workshop we also made sur¢ to check in on the f￿[￿amentals, for example - is the organisation's mission, vision and our five key activities still righ To enable these discussions. we deSI￿ed a strategy day with an externai facililator. Helen Trig¥s. The purpose of the slraicgy day was to come together as a whole organisation. learn about the Strate￿ and eheck-in on some possible changes of direction. The strategy day in July was attended by 30 members of our Community, with representatives of all four groups identified above. Sorne key themes which emerged from the day w¢re.- consensus for making thealre methods more cenlral to our work and identity; enthusiasm for exploring a national eampaign for better ESOI. fvndingy a desire lo further develop student participation in decision-making at all levels of the organisation and excitement about starting an initial tea¢h¢r training programme in pBrticipatory ESOL. Moving into 2025126, the next sl¢ps in developing the Strat¢￿ are to finalise the proposals for change and put into practice So￿e of Ihe smaller change5 we hav¢ alr¢ady agreed. We have also started to assess the WQTrying recent developtnent& in t¢mis of the rise of far-right and anti-immigration politics we have seen in 2025. Thett are proFrt)sed Changes to immigration rules and especia]ly the English language requirement that will have a Signifi￿nt impact on our communities. Outside of parliament, the mobilisation of tens of thousands of people Supportingaggr¢￿ivejY anti-immigralion position5 is a huge Concern and we are reassessing our strategy &s a resuli. Neverthele￿, the strategy process has bro&lly reinforced our commitment to our fundamental objectives and the way w¢ WOTk. We also felt it was important to our relationships and community- buildin& Page 10 EFA London Trustees. report Approach and Methodology Our te4ching *pproaeh English forAction has a unique teachingapproach and nearly twenty year5 of experienee now delivering accessible Community ESOL. Our approach blends community organising and parricipatory education methodologies. We believe ihat in order to build langua&i¢ skills and the ¢apacity of our beneficiaries to participaie fully in society (our two charitsble objerlives), the way we work, both inside the classroom and outside. is of ￿ndamental importance. Acce&8ibility We deliver courses in community locations that are familiar and convenient forthe participants we want to reach (especially those people missing oul on provision els¢wh¢r¢) or online. We talk to participants to find out whL)11 they want lo learn.- many of our courses in schools take place at 9.30am, as parents find it convenient to go to class after dropping off their children at school. We also arrange free crèches, where our students have young children. Online classes have also been popular with parenls and peopl¢ working shifts at irregular times. For students with moTe limited digital skills and literacy needs in- person classes are preferable. We intend to continue rnnning a mix of online and in-person classes. W¢ encourage our participants to take increasing ownership of the ¢l&ss¢s they attend. The more they organise, plan and recruit for the courses the more accessible OUT COUTS¢S become. After all. our participants know their communities. Finally. we rnake use of and develop leadership within the communities wher¢ we work to reach the people who really need us. For example. il's often a parent al th¢ primary school. or a parent support WOTk¢r, who knows the people most in need of our courses a￿1 bringTS them through the door. P4rti¢ipatory Education We are committed lo leaming about, developing and sharing an approach to adult learning called 'participatory education,; it is also sometimes called 'radical pedagogy,, '¢rilical pedagogy,, 'popular education, or 'democratic educatiotL'. It is a collaborative forni of leaming that values the students, exi5tingknowledge and experiences. Knowledge and skills are ¢o-constru¢ted, ratherthan handed down from an 'expert' teacher. Furtherniore. participatory education is based on the premise ihat education is necessarily political - it can either SLLStain and legitimise the status quo. or it can seek to bring aix)ut social, political and economic change. By truly valuing the students and chAllen¥ing established hierar¢hies iiL¥ide the classroom, s￿dentS are better equipped t(> change the world oulside the cl8ssTOOm. But we go further than critiquing injusii¢¢ and modelling ¢hange- we also challenge and support our participants to lak¢ action to improve their lives and communities. This is where ¢ommunity organisin8 Comes in. Community Organislng We a￿ committed to building PK)w¢r, taking action and creating ehange through an approach called 'community organising. This is a forn] of ¢ommunity capaciiy building7 that aims to strengthen and deepen democratic engabiement. li does this by dev¢loping people's skills to connect witl) others and lake collective action. Community organisers help people to get together and build pY)werful networks Pa8e 11 EFA London Trustees, report that can then, through focused campaigns. change things in their I￿al area or even furth¢r afield. Citizens UK is one of the main homes of community organisin8 in the UK aJMI we are a m¢mber of their south and east London chapters wELere we have our community hubs. We are also closely involved with HASL, Migrants Organis¢. Centre for Progressive Change, Social Housing Action Carnpaign ISHAC), Voice of Dom¢sti¢ Workers, High Trees and Cr¢ating Ground all of whom practise and teach community organising. These collaborations mean that our parti¢ipants can aceess leadership trainin& get involved in caTnpaigns in their local OT obtsin support with their own campaigns if they so wish. We also use cotnmunity organising techniques inside the classroom to critically explore issues. build relationships and to plan action. Lastly, we a¢tively support EFA teachers and volunteers in buildingtheir capacity as community organisers through rnnning relevant trdining and ensuring there is support available to them as they engage in community orEanising. Our Participants and Partners Particip4Dts Our participants are all people who have English as an additional language &nd have migrated to the UK. Our ¢ours¢s are free forall participants irrespective of theirincome, immigration status, nationality or whether or not they are claiming benefits. As such, we often have extremely diverse classes, reflecting the demographic of the I[￿al area. In Greenwich, the ¢la8s¢s are parti¢u]arly diverse in ternis of iKpth SOCiOveconomie class, first language and nationality. In s0￿hwark, more than half of the participants are Spanish speaking. mostly of Colombian and E¢uadorian origin. In Tower Hamlets, the majority are Banglad¢shi. We also work with a large number of Filipinoli Chin¢s¢ Ukrainian, Somali, Algerian and Afghan migrants. The vast majority of our participants are women And most have young children who attend our partners, children's centres and schools. The mtljoriry of our participants with jobs are working as cleaner5. Our participants are often not able to access publicly funded ESOL for a variety of reasons.Thi5 year, according lo Department for Education figures, there were approximately 120,000 people accessing ESOL classes and over a million adults reporting limtled proficiency. Apart from the limited quantity of ¢l&sses, barriers to a¢c¢ss include lack of childcare lo accompany classes. challenging work schedules, the restrictive eligibility criteria for free classes that excludes people with certain immigration statuse& stringent demands of fornial provision in ternis of attendance. exams and punctuality and the delay before asylum seekers can attend publicly funded classes. Page 12 EFA London Tru5tee< report Case study I: Carolina Carolina is a 42-year-old Brazilian woman who ha5 lived in England for nearly four years with her husband. a Methodist minister. They relocated to the UK together. Carolina has the right to work but her qualifications are not recognised here and sh¢ had lo build up from scr*ch. Prior to moving, the worked for over 13 years as an Admini$￿tOr at a university in Brazil. Since a￿1VIng in the UK, Carolina faced sigDificant ¢hall¢nges in her PUTSUit of employtnent. She struggled lo find work in administration and often felt unworthy of seeking opportunilies due to a traumati¢ experience with her previous employer in Brnil, wher¢ she was denied rigTrhtful payment. This experience negatively impacted her mental health, leaving her feeling losi for two years. In October 2023, Carolina enrolled in the EfA English class after facing ditTiculii¢s enrolling in other courses due to residency Tequirements. Her English level is currently around ESOI. Level Two, the highest level for ESOL. Although sh¢ acknowledges progress, she continues to find language a chall¢nge. Carolirta describes the EfA COUTse as iransfomiative. It not only impmved her language skills but also restored her Confidence. She values the Community aspect of ihe class, where she tinds support among, peers who share similar chajlenges. The course has equipped her wilh practical skills, including CV wriling and interview preparation, emp)wering her to pursue her career goals. Carolina has been proactive in assisting her classmates by sharing CV advice she learned in class plus other resour¢es. Sh¢ has helped fellow sludenls, reflecting on the supportive environment within the el&%& Since completing the course in July 2024. Carolina has applied for over 20 jobs. In (ktober. she re¢eived several job offtrs and ultimately se¢ured a position as a S¢1￿01 AdministratOT at Sha¢klewell Primary School in Haekney. This achievement marks a significant milestone in her journey, highlighting her trsilience and det¢rn)ination. Teaehers, support $taff and volunteers EFA is grateful to our dedicated team of staff and volunteers. All our ￿a¢her$ are experience41. at least CELTA-qualified (or equivalenl) and trained in our participatory meihods. Our volunteeTS SUPPOrt the teachers as teaching a55iStanls. help at event5. contribute to eampaigning work, run conVe￿ation clubs, support small groups and individuals and 50melimes offer operational support. In 2024-25 we had five non-i¢a¢hing staff members supporting with community organi5in& managemeni finaJh¢e, comms, fundraising and HR. Moving into 2025126 we have 14 pernianent members of staff, including nine t¢achers-organisers'.: Dermol Bryer5, Becky Winsianley. Adela Belecov4 Kasia Blackman, Lucie Vyhnalcova, Anne Mcconnell, Julie Begum, Shah Ahmed and Gunes Gtlven. Gina Rodriguez is our Operations Lead. Anna KostyTina leads fundrdising and comms work and in January, we welcomed Fiona Norris, as Partn¢rships Executive, Chelsea Jos¢ph and Erica Scott as community organiset3. We also have F&rhana Azad in the wider team, rnnning walk and talk activities in Tower Hamlets. We are very ¥irateful to Kolpana Begum, Aldjia Koucem, Rachael Akanji and Shahnaz Begum for providing EFA classes with Page 13 EFA London Trustees, report creches. Our group of 31 volunteers this year provided valuable support to the tea¢h¢rs, enabling them to work with mixed-level groups. They are a diverse groupi Wlth a rangc of linguistic and ethnic backgrounds, educational backgrounds, ages and motivatR0115. A group of volunteer5 from King's College London, mostly students and som¢ slaff, joined us this year working on a new proje¢l in partnership with the University called EmpowerESOL. Many of our volunteers come to u5 With excellent ideas and work collaboratively with the teacher to enhance the Classroom experience. Some of our volunteers as is the case with Luci¢ Adela aNI K&8i& end up joining the EFA team as tea¢hers-organisers. Our funding The majority of OUT funding comes from charitable trusts and foundations. but we are also fund¢d directly by some of our partner institutiOll5 (this year for example, St. Katherine Cree Church, St. Martin's Plaislow and the Voice of Domestic Workers) to provide ¢ourses for their members. Wc had a relatively small amount of Era5mus+ funding in 2024-25 for Community Organising for All. We are giat¢ful to individual giver5, who donated £760.83. This year we were able lo step up community organising work while developtng students, language skills ihanks to 5UPPOrt frotn trusts and foundations, including United Saint Saviour's Charity, People's Health-frusL Disrupt Foundation, Society of the Holy Child Jeslls CIO, AB Charitable Trust, National Lottery Awards foT All, Mer¢ers' Company, Garfield Weston Foundation and Cily Bridge Foundation. These included organising to improve access lo ESOL. to improve miyranl ac¢ess to primary health care in south-east London. worker organi5ing and sl¢pping up action for housing j￿1￿ce in Tower Hamlets. Continued Funding from ihe Walcot Foundation and the Henry Smith Charity in Southwark a￿] Lambeth enabled LLS to continue to support our students to better understand their housing rights, help each other to defend them and to organise for change. It's brilliant lo be able to commit more resources to one of the mosi pressing problems our 5tudenls experience. We are immensely grateful to all the trusts and foundations {listed on page 44) who have supported our work across our community hubs.. Wandsworth, Lambeth, SouthwaTk. Greenwich. Tower Hamlets and Hackney. Page 14 EFA London Tffuste￿ report Looking Back Looking back at our objectives for the year and measuring our perfornianee.. Succeeded or exceeded obJertlve Orl8lnal objecllve for year: Achieved Secure funding to continue our work in at ￿ast six of the seven existing community hubs, running a combination of online and face- face classes, wellbeing activities, conversalion clubs and organising spaces. We sustained work in our 51x boroughs and added new partnership5 ThM)St notably with Kings College London to run the EmpowÈrESOL project and Katherine Cree Churth to run thelr Saturday ESOL Online classes continued to be popular. Raise around £390.Oc￿l in order to make the change we want to make and keep going in the difficult post- covid I cost of living crisis financial climate. Income 2024125 was É564.(M)O - higher than predicted due to some unexpected new contracts and income allocated to next year arrlving this year. Run at least 28 ESOL courses, reaching 500 participants over the course of ihe year 30 weekly classes. Including the conversation club and walk and talk and 534 unique participants Write up and share research into Participatory ESOL We continued to wblish report5 and worklng papers through the Hub for Education and Language Diversity, a partnership between teacher-researchers at EFA and academics at Kin¢s College London. Page 15 EFA London Trustee5' report Convert agreem8nts with local councils to policies and actions that improve ESOL in London and look for opportunities to have an impact nationally. Pro8re5s locally continues, especially in Greenwich. SouthwarK Hackney and Lambeth nd EFA contlnues to participate in the Coalition for Language Education, a UK-wide fietwo￿. Maintain balance of online and fa￿-face courses, looking for opportunities to start classes in community locations where the need is great A byeater proportion of our classes now in- person again, five years after the pandemic forced us to go online. A signrficant number of weekly online se55ions remain Isevenl and are really popular, especially with shift worker5. Nearly achleved objective: Run al least three online trainings for individuals and six for organisations Six external training delivered in London, Bristol and Manchester. We decided to cul the online trainir8 for indlviduals, with les5 demand for this and also less impact than workin8 vlith groups who can then work together subsequently to put in plate what they have learned. Complete a new three to fNe year strategy so we are very clear in our direction of Iravel and can navigate the difficult external environment. At the end of the year we had a strategy dav includin8 all sections of our communty and now need to put proposed tweaks and changes into operatlon. Room lor Improvernem I dld not achieve: Original objertive for year: Achieved7 Page 16 EFA London Trustees, report Continue building links with teachers and organisatlons outside of London, inviting teachers to join our community of practice meetings. to our conference We delivered some trèlnings outslde of London but paused the community of practice and did not hold an annual conference in 2025 due to lack of specrfic funding and capacity Summary of our courses in 2024-25 Group and iA)catlon Tegcherls) Numberof Number of aa Funder hours participants Greenwi¢h Owen centre l[ Robert Children's Lucie 90 26 Greenwich Communities, A wards for KeolisAmey Docklands. Tham¢slink YSYCI Fund Healthier Greenwich onlin¢ Lucie 90 27 Greenwich Communities Healthier Star of Gr¢enwich/ Nalional Maritime Museum Lucie 72 34 Greenwich Communities, Awards for All, KeolisAmey Dockland Tham￿1]nk YSYCI Fund Healthier Wandsworth (online) Demiot 23 Wimbledon Foundalio Wandsworth Borough of Sanctuary Wandsworth conversation club Ben, Sharon and Amelia 57 21 Volunteer-run Page 17 EFA London T¥ustees' report Wandsworth Walk & Talk (Battersea) Derniot 36 13 GLA, Wimbledon Foundation, Wandsworth Borough of Sanctuary Wandsworth Reading group Paul 54 Volunteer-run Southwark Saturday hool Kasia 72 25 Society of the Holy Child Jesus (morning) Southwark Satunlay School 2 (aftemoon) Adela 72 35 Henry Smith Time and Talents (online) Adela 72 21 United Saint Saviour's I Southwark Charities Salvation Camberwell. Southwark A Trny. Kasia 72 30 Henry Smithl Walworth Room Living Anne Henry Smith 72 21 Oliver Goldsmith Anne 48 16 Oliver Goldsmith School I Peckham Settlement Southwark Works Kasia 24 15 Southwark Work5 Page 18 EFA London Trustees. feport Chisenhale Tower School. Becky 20 Disrupt Foundation People's Health Trust Hamlets (Active Communilies) Wakefield and Tetley Chisenhale 2 Becky 100 21 Disrupt Fowidation Julie People's Hea]th Trust (Active Communities) Wakefield aTKI Tetl¢y Chisenhale Art place Becky 18 People's Health Trust Julie (Diserimination Healih) St. Kaiherine Cree Church Julie 48 34 St. Katherine Cr¢e Church Henry Primary Streatham Cavendish S¢hool, Adela 90 22 Walcot Foundation Henry Fawcelt Children's Centre Kasia 60 24 Walcol Foundation Latin American Women's Aid. ILAWA) Hackney beginner Anne 72 20 West Hackney Parochial Charity Pa6e 19 EFA london Trustees, repo Latin American Women's Aid, (LA WA) Hackney ESOL for WoTk Anne 72 15 MerceTS Voice of Domesti¢ Workers Anne 120 51 Voice Workers of Domesti St. Martin's Plaistow Lu¢ie and Gunes 40 St. Martin'$ Church Young R actlon-orieDtsted ESOL ¢1oss¢s We Teached 534 benefi¢iari¢s (people attending al least 5 sessions) in the period between August I" 2024 to July 31" 2025,. this is 28 fewer than the previous year. We moved in the direciion of more in- person classes. while keeping some online, as participants generally iell us thal they prefer in-pejson and EFA teachers generally fecl the leaming and COrnTnunily building outcomes are stronger. 95Y(t of students completing posÉ-course evalualions reported that ih¢y have improved their languag¢ skills &8 a result of their participation in our courses. Teachers assess their slud¢nts regularly. both fonnally and infomally and their assessment supports the students, evaluations. 104 sludents completed exams - we give students the ch)ice - and 980/0 passed achieving a nationally recO￿lsed qualification. Over hundTed students took action outside of th¢ classroom, Standing up for their rights to Safe. affordable accommodation, fair pay and decent conlra¢ts or to demand more accessible ESOL classes foT themselves and their cotnmunili¢s. Our classes helped them participate more actively in the organisations they belong to such as the Voice of Domesti¢ Workers, St. Martin's Church. Si. Katherine Cree Church, or the IWGB Trade Union. 2. Build power through communlty orgAnising Our community organising work resulted in new partnerships, surh as with St Katherine Cree Church and St. Mary's Primary School in L¢wisham, canipaign ivins (especially the Living Wage Campaign and housing¢onditions) and chaiige al the individual level, as our participants developed new skills and confidence. Pa8e21 EFALondon Trustees, report EFA students. volunteers, trustees and tea¢her-organisers participated actively in Southwark, Larnbeth, Greenwich and Hackney Citizens: joining leadership teams Éo help make decisions ai)out the ¢olle¢tive priorities of the alliances. Alongside fellow South London Ciiizens members EFA made progress with the migrant acce55 to the NHS and secured suppon for our participants, priorities through the South London Listens projeci. The South-east London Integrated Care Board (ICB) agreed to scrap expensive and useless GP lette￿ to support housing oppli¢ations and knih ICBS (SW and SE) a]located NHS land for affordable housing. Community organising m¢tho(ts have helFed EFA students learn about their housing rights, change their circumstances and bring ai)out institutional and systesnic Change. In Tower Hamlet5, Studen15 gained support from their local MP. who visited the class ￿ well as councillors. This helped the group to meet with and negoliai¢ changes from the social landlord that many of the students rent frnm. 3. Take a¢tlon together OD the i$sDes our eomrnunities eare about Over a hundred ￿UdentS, teachers, trustee5 and volunteers took action with EFA to effect chan&ye across OUT four (intetTelated) main priorities: housin& work and wages, acce55 to ESOL and health. Our action teams ¢ontinued to Use theatre meth(yJs in creative actions on decision-makers. Two highlights were the housing a¢tion in December to secure agreernent from NHS leaders to work with ommunity groups to make a housing action plan. Poor housing conditions ar¢ driving physical and mental ill health ￿rO$S London and migrants are dispropoflionately impacted. In June. EFA students developed a play to demonstrate the specific batTiers to accessing ESOL classes and perfom)ed it at City Hall in front of ESOL policymakers and allies from across the sector (se¢ case study, page 23). The Living Wage Campaign goes from strength lo strength and EFA students have been Closely involved, finally securing a Living wage for workers at the National Theatre, the British Film Institute and NHS England after taking action alongside Cilizens UK allie5 at Christmas in February and in May. Develop and Share these method5 (community organising And ESOL) through resur¢b, training and external eommuDications This is probably the objective that t￿k a little more of a backseat this y¢ar. with the vast majority of our resources spent on di￿1 delivery of ESOL classes, ¢ommunily or8anising and campaigning with our sludenÉs. It ha5 beeii hard to raise money for influencing others and sharing best practice. Nevertheless we have made some progress, most notsbly through our parli¢ipation in the Hub for Education and l.anguage Diversity. alongside colleagues at Kinb. s College London. This year we ran three seminars on d¢¢oloniaiity pat1icipatory pedagogy, Parti¢ipatory ESOL Taking Stock (dissemination of our tnost re¢¢nt research) and ESOL in a Changing Political Landscape for over l 00 practitioners r¢sea￿hers. We also delivered six iraining se55ions forAround l 00 ESOL ieachers and volunteers in Bristol. London and Manehcster on different elernents of participatory ESOL and multilingual community organising.. Page 22 EFA London Trustees, report 5. Campaign for better ESOL provision localty (in our local eommunllies) *¢ross ¢h¢ UK. We would like to raise moTe money lo fund our campaigning activities bui have made solid progress with litile resou￿¢. ESOL provision in London is in better shape thom il was before we Started the #LoveESOL campaign in 2017. Th¢ GLA take it more seriously wilh ihe Mayor of London claimingto have prioritised ESOL morc than any other part ofthe country ha5- at the beginning of his r￿St ierni h¢ rarelyy if ever, mentioned it. TheTe is so much more to be done but now there 15 an ESOL C￿rdinatOr, far more generous eligibility criteria enabling ihousands m(>re students to access free rlasses, a website with infornialion aEKlUt classes and mor¢ money spent on ¢l&sses- all demands we have put tothe Mayor dire¢tly or his Deputy Mayors. This }iear we engaged wilh Deputy Mayor Howard Dawber directly {see below), stepped up our work with staff at City Hall and builr strong relationships with councillors and staff at Hackney> Lambeth, s0￿hWark and Gre¢nwich councils. We are currently working with Lambeth and Hackney to set up a joint projecl alongside the GLA, Natecla and ELA￿ to dev¢lop plans for an ESOL advice service - a single point of conta¢t (SPOC) managed by the council to support wlential s￿dentS find class¢s. Case study 2: Theatre At City H*ll On June 24th EFA'S #LoveESOL team engaged Deputy Ma}'or Howard Dawber and ESOL policy- makers inside and outside of the GLA with a theatre perforn)ance al Cily Hall. highl1￿tIllg th¢ barrieTS to ESOL and hinting at solutions. The team of sttldents drawn frotn multiple c1&s5es worked together for months to develop the play and plan the event. The play showed how a lack of English can cause problems accessing NHS services and navigaiing Job Centre interactions and also ihat ESOL providers don't know enough about10¢41 provision to be able lo refer people to classes that sui¢ them, for example where they might find a creche. Aftw the play we focussed specifically on one potential solution, the Single Point of Coniact (SP(￿) and heard evidence from local authoritie5 that had piloted a SPOC or used one in the pasi. A SPOC would be a local authority service that takes responsibility for maiching d¢mand for ESOL to supply. Someone. or a team of people. at the Council would map local provision and recruit, assess and refer students to the right cl&ss. Every council in London should have a SPOC and we want the GLA and perhap5 Qth¢r public services to help make it happen. The impact of the work on the participanis was profound. All of the group told us it made them feel more powerful, more confident and proud of thernselves. EFA ha5 really leaned into participatory theatre in recenl years and it has become increasingly core to our Work. It help5 d¢v¢lop language skills and confidence, raise awareness of issues. deepen understanding of problems ond develop solutions. At our Strate￿ day at ihe end of the year we resolved to recognise and continue this and build it into more of our work. Pa8e 23 EFA London Trustee5' ieport Looking ahead In 202&26 we 4im to ¢ontillue our work a¢ross our six community hub& $ustY4inlng cla$se8 ID order to ereate deep links witb our students amd loegl eommllnlties. We aim to develop our Dew strntegy to explore a n&tion41 ¢1)mpoign for better ESOL provision, developing initial te#¢b¢r training programme in partlcipatory ESOU make theitre work mor¢ integral to our language legrning aDd orgamising and improve sthdent p8rti¢lpa¢ion in de¢ision-making across the orgaDiSYItion. Secure funding to continue our work across our six existing community hubs, running a combination of online and face-face dasses, walk and talks, theatre groups, conversation clubs and organising spaces. Raise at least £450,000 to sustain the work we're doing and expand our ESOL Campaigning work Run at least 28 weekly ESOL courses, walk and talk groups and conversation clubs reaching 500 partioipants over the course of the year Get agreements from at least tsvo local authorities to fund and staff a Single Point of Contact ESOL seNice Explore starting or joining a national campaign to improve ESOL funding with suitable partners like Natecla, the Bell Foundation. the UCU andlor Cits'zens UK Run at least six trainings sessions for external organisations for over 80 trainees Develop and accredit an initial teacher Iraining programme . Write up, share arKI begin to implement our 2025-2028 strategy Improve student participation in strategy and decision making through project steering groups and strategy teams Support 300 people to find ESOL courses and other training through the ESOL fairs Bring together 20+ ESOL providers through ESOL fairs and work with some or• ESOL campaigning, partnership work and mutual support Page 24 EFA London Trustees, report Trustees and Governance K¢y points at glaDCe: Delivery: Exceeded our objectives for the year in tern)s of numtrKr of cl&sses delivered and participants supported, with 24 ESOL courses delivered across seven Ex)rough5 and 534 people attending al le&st five of our sessions. • Continued to improve accessibility to learning, with 560/0 of our participants accessing ESOL provision for the first time through EFA and 951J/fj of siudents surveyed r¢porting improved English skills and confidence. This year EFA also held two adult educaiion faiTS and two workshops on local ESOL access, reaching almost 400 people and with 217 people finding new courses as a result of this outreach. Developed new partnerships: including with King's College to run the E,mp)wer ESOL project and wilh St Katherine Cree Church to provide ESOL and organising training for low paid workers at the chur¢h' work we hope to expand next year with a similar proje¢l al a chur¢h in Sothhwth. Alongside members ot Citizens UK and the IWGB Union, EFA St￿entS Continue to drive the Living Wage Campaign, with sU￿e￿fuI action this y¢aT that resulted in Ix)th the British Film Institule and NHS England both agreeing to pay the Real Living Wage in 2024125. Expanded our parti¢ipalory theatre work wilh the development of a teacher-student theatre group who delivered a performance al City Hall in June 2025 in front of ESOL policy- makers, highlighting barriers lo ESOL and proposed solutions for improved access. Governance: • Four trustees stepped down during the year and the Board would like to express ow thanks to Daniel Michael Grutters, Isolda Liborio, Lary5a Agbaso and Je55i¢a Walker for their contrlbulion to EFA. We also recruited ihree new trustees io the Board, all due to start in August 2025.. Eva Luna Vargas Diaz, Valerie Anne Quinn and Vivien Frances Life. Dep¢irting trustee Jessica Walk¢r also held the post of EFA Treasurer. We undertook a recmitment for a new Treasurer, and look forward to welcoming Valerie Anne Quinn to the role from August 2025. The Board worked with the Executive Team on planning for the organisational strategy refresh and preparation for the strategy day in July 2025. Operations- EFA exceeded ils fundraising target for the year, raising £564.308 in total, a particularly significant success given th¢ challenging fundraising environment. We completed the annual in-depth review of EFA'S risk register. Page 25 EFA London Tru5tees' report Iylih EFA London s 2024-2025 AnnudlR£porl, il s cleur ihoi we remain LompnFlled ii) building on our eKI.$liAg M'ork to Lreule meuniiigfulconneclions willi 51udenls L7ndlocal Lommunilies, making.sure E,gQL remaip7& ucc¥ssibl¢ and impactfyl, and empoweriiig siudgnts to lake actE(JT2 on ihe i.s.su&s thai mailer ihe motrr. After u someiiphal lurbulent livo )yeary irt 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, av EFA navigaied o period of expansion and retraction during ar￿ ufier ihe pandemic. 2024-2025 hw been u peri(￿ of grva¢er siability in ierms of both delivery and operalions. We ar* proud of ihe many achievemenls EFA kus reach¥d in ihispasl yeai, includiAg bui nui limiled io, Ihe number of classes delivered number of purficiponls 5upporied, Ihe developmenl of new, partnerships, Ihe commiimeni io campuigningfor improved ESOL provision, ongoing iwork with local authorities, fvriher devglopment of iwiovalive approaches, ihe orgakzisatiéin s contim4ed coF71rZb￿IOn io ihe parlicipalory ESOL community. 2024-2025 was also aposiliveyeur in lerms offiindraising, ab EFA raised£504.308 in lotal, ¢xLeeding our lurgelfor ihe year. Given lh¢ L>ng>oing chollenges in the fvidruifing environment. and difficulty raiging money in ihe previous Iwofinancial y¢ar3. Ihis is a parliculorly significant oulcome the Iru51ees Mjish io exlend our thaRths lu ihe Finance FundraisEng leam, uKdall EFA staff, for au their efforls lo qchieve ihis. We remain immÈrtgÈ1)' groteful In all ihefup2ders who supporl our work As we the eKdofour 2022-2025 s1rale￿,, EFA has starled M'i)rk fpnpreparing a refre5hedslraiegv fvr lhe ndri ihreeyearperithl. The wider #nijironmenl is challensving, boih economically apTdpolili¢ally. demandfor our LI{u.¥￿ al￿ aclivilies rgmuiF75 hixli. lei our core miSSlQFI IS consis¢ent, as EFA M'l)Yh. io swporl migranls in ihe UKiu ihe language. 5li11s and#elwi)rks iheyneedto change their live5 (Ip￿ comThzunilies for ihe beller. Folloii'ing an eugaging strale￿ day in July 2025, led bj, the a¥eLulive learn, and inVf)liying.Yi¢gf. iru.flees. par¢icipap71.f and vnlunteers. in which we reviewed EFA s journey and cupTent Str￿e￿ (Ind discuf.sed 11,hÉJi we colleclively Meanled ii) preserve and ivhere M'C would be open lo chaNge.f in diréelion, we ar¥ ncJM' working onfinaluing un ￿￿Uleds1ralegvf0r ike ntt¥lperiod io enable EFA io cunlinu¢ working lowards lhis ￿185￿￿?￿. Going into 2025-2026, EFA has 12permanenl members ofstaff, incl&ding nine Teachers-organisers, olongside our Op*raliorts Lead. Fwldraising and ComMunicalion$ Lead (md Parlnerships Exeeulive. Jn addiliopl, we are gralef￿1 in colleague.$ M,ho suppori Mjiih vi¢alaclivilies inclttdingproviyii)n ofcreche .Yervices to EFA cl(4sJeJ andmanaggmeni ofrhe walk undiulk uclivilivs. The iruslees wouldulso like lo exlgnd their ihanks lo ihe leam of 31 volunl¥ers H,ho continue lo provide valuable supporl lo ihe leachers. and bring nem, idea.s and£n&r￿￿ inlo ihe organi.fGlion, contrihuling pnuch io ihe achievemenls of EFA in ihe pasl year. We conlinue H'iih ihg model of an execultve leam. raiher than a sin¥le Lkief execulivg. During 2024-2025 ihe execulive il'as made up of hvo members (Adela Bele¢ova Dermot Bryers) withpluns ic) to ihree members in 2025-2026. The pa51year b¥¢n ilf change Jor ihe TrrLft¥e Bourd ai EFA. rye stsidg00dh￿ tofnur Irusiees M,ho 51vpped buLkfrom ihe Board. 1531.iJS 1161,9241 216.550 1388,4YI Totalevnthur• 82.8261 124&293 531.J19 126,530 388.4541 Npt w¥emeni Inlund5 16131 34&2 33.IB9 62.968 ¥￿11 6?.809 Ht¢¢rto1Wbr￿ olkndi TOtalfvndsbiuu8htfaThMtd 141,149 179.161 235.848 T¢t1lfund5tirrWf¢r￿1d 95,130 33fj.846 Alldihe¢h4i*w'5arttrthlc5 dEnvEfw¢onisnukniop•ratiQnS rfUth8theabwt*￿PqrI￿th. ThelL*id5 b(ethdowblor2D24I55tr￿[￿ nate 16. ncioson pwe534ts47forman Inttyralpartoftheselnx￿l1lS1lteTh)Èrnts. EFA London (Registration number: 06909738) Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2025 2025 2024 NotÈ Fixed assets Tangible assets 12 1.731 2.766 Current O5ets Debtor5 13 38.162 327.374 9,725 303,994 Cash at bank and in hand 365,536 313,719 Creditors: Amounis falllng due within one year 14 130,4211 112,8281 Net current wets 335.115 300,891 Net assèts 336,846 303.657 Fundsof the charity: Restrlrted Income funds Restricted funds 95,330 61,S08 Unrestrkted Income funds Unrestricted funds 241,516 242,149 Total funds 16 336,846 303,657 For the financial year endin8 31 July 2025 the charity was entitled to exemption from audit undÈr sèrtion 477 of the Companies Act 2c￿6 relating t¢ small companies. Dlrertors, respon5ibilities'. The member5 have not required Iht ¢harity to obtaln an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with Section 476., and The directors acknowledge their responslbilities for crynptying with the requirements of the Art with respect to accountin8 records and the preparatlon of accounts. The Ilnèntial statements on page5 31 to 47 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for tssue on 10 April 2026 and 518ned on their behalf by.. (105L Melanie Cooke Trustee The notes on page$ 34 to 47 lorm an integral part of these financial statements. Page 32 EFA London Statement of Cash Flows for the Year Ended 31 July 2025 2025 2024 Ca$h flowsfrom operatln8 adi¥ities Net cash income 33.189 67,809 Adlusthients to cash fftjws from n