Bridging East and West through Education

Our Impact

As a social enterprise with the mission to "bridge East and West through education", we are committed to maximising our social impact over short term profits. Inspired by our founder's experience studying in China and working as a teacher in the UK, we aim to:

  • Improve cultural relations between East and West
  • Promote language learning
  • Inspire and support the next generation of teachers
Impact Report 2019
Calligraphy class on the summer camp program in Beijing
Calligraphy class on the summer camp program in Beijing
A trip to Jingshan park for homestay tutors in Beijing
A trip to Jingshan park for homestay tutors in Beijing
Bringing young people from around the world together
Bringing young people from around the world together
Trip to the Great Wall for camp counsellors in Chengde
Trip to the Great Wall for camp counsellors in Chengde
Traditional paper making craft class for homestay tutors in Shanghai
Traditional paper making craft class for homestay tutors in Shanghai
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Goal 1:

Cultural relations

In the current world climate, it is critical to build international links. By providing cultural experiences and networking opportunities for young people in Europe and Asia, we hope to develop a better understanding between our countries. We do this through:

  • Offering opportunities for young people from around the world to join our cultural exchange programs in Asia
  • Launching our free online Chinese culture course, including fun activities and classes
  • Coming soon: sponsoring student societies and events sharing aspects of the Chinese culture in the UK

Goal 2:

Language learning

Currently, the UK has the lowest linguistic skills in Europe, with Mandarin Chinese identified as a key language for the future. We aim to introduce international participants to the Chinese language while also providing quality English practice opportunities for children across Asia. We do this through:

  • Offering free Mandarin Chinese classes to all participants in our Homestay Tutor program
  • Providing free online Mandarin Chinese classes to our online and incoming tutors
  • Providing opportunities for international participants to share their English skills through our in-country and online programs
Free Chinese classes for summer camp and homestay participants
Free Chinese classes for summer camp and homestay participants
Free online Chinese classes for our online language buddies and incoming homestay tutors
Free online Chinese classes for our online language buddies and incoming homestay tutors
Offering in-country summer camp teaching placements
Offering in-country summer camp teaching placements
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Offering in-country summer camp teaching placements
Offering in person summer camp and homestay teaching placements
Learn to teach through online TEFL courses
Training new teachers through our accredited online TEFL courses
Develop your classroom teaching skills
Providing advice and support for those considering teaching as a career
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Goal 3:

Inspiring teachers

There is a severe shortage of teachers here in the UK with low numbers of applicants to the profession and high drop-out rates. Additionally, many UK teachers struggle to teach the linguistically diverse range of children in classrooms today. We hope to inspire the next generation of teachers while also supporting existing teachers developing their skills teaching children for whom English is an additional language. We do this by:

  • Providing supported international teaching opportunities through our summer camp, homestay and language buddy programs
  • Training young people to teach English through our online TEFL courses
  • Offering advice for trainees, tutors and camp counsellors on longer term teaching career opportunities

Furthering our impact

Additional Initiatives

Although we focus on the above three goals, we also work on our social and environmental impact in a number of other areas.


We offset our carbon footprint via Ecologi

Environment

We offset all business travel and our employees’ personal carbon footprints. Not only that, but we also carbon offset our camp counsellor and homestay tutor’s flights too!

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Funding

We are passionate about making our programs financially accessible to all, including industry-leading travel funding and a significant number of scholarships and grants each year. 

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