Volunteers for Educational Support & Learning
The short answer is NO… you don’t need a TEFL qualification to be offered a project with VESL and the vast majority of volunteers do not have any formal qualifications.
We send out project offers in the week following your interview and ask you confirm your place within two weeks. We ask volunteers to pay an initial deposit of £250 towards
Firstly let me state that no time is too early to apply! We have a rolling selection process which is open throughout the year so technically there is no deadline.
Re. Partnering Volunteers We completely understand why you might feel apprehensive about heading overseas on your own and this is why we try to partner all of our summer short
We do run a lot of our events out of London as this tends to be the easiest place for the vast majority of people to get to or it’s
Q. “My friend and I have graduation mid-end July and we start a PGCE course in September, so we’re not very flexible. Are we able to fit a project into
For short-term (4 – 6 week) projects we try to organise a number of different start dates throughout the summer as people have all sorts of commitments we need to
Why do I have to attend an information and selection event? A selection events is an excellent opportunity for you to get to know VESL and find out if we
How do you ensure my safety overseas? This is an important consideration for many volunteers. Heading out to work in an unknown environment, far from from friends and family, can
What makes VESL different from most other organisations?