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Here you will find details of MESH organised events and initiatives held in 2025.
Here you will find details of MESH organised events and initiatives held in 2025.
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 1 December 2025
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 1 December 2025
Delivering ESOL in a hostile environment: Developing strategies and staying safe in the context of anti-migrant activism in the UK
Delivering ESOL in a hostile environment: Developing strategies and staying safe in the context of anti-migrant activism in the UK
This event focuses on the current challenges that many in the ESOL world are living with and working through related to public discourse and far right activism about migration and asylum.
MESH Regional Networking Event
12 November 2025
ESOL Training & Development
MESH Regional Networking Event
12 November 2025
ESOL Training & Development
The focus of this session is on training opportunities to become an ESOL teacher, and professional development opportunities for ESOL practitioners in our region. The sector is diffuse, with many people coming to the delivery of learning through experience, through volunteering or through teaching in other sectors. The capacity to deliver high quality learning is also dependent on the provision of training opportunities to help ESOL practitioners develop their practice in a fast moving sector. The session explores routes and opportunities for specialised ESOL training and development.
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 16 September 2025
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 16 September 2025
ESOL & Digital Learning
ESOL & Digital Learning
A continuation of our focus on digital skills, introduced in our Showcase session in June (see below). In this session we explore the issues further, looking at online resources and exploring issues to do with how digital learning should be integrated with ESOL at lower levels.
MESH Regional Networking Event
7 July 2025
Exploring ESOL & Devolution in Y&H
MESH Regional Networking Event
7 July 2025
Exploring ESOL & Devolution in Y&H
The landscape of ESOL delivery in England is changing. In an increasing number of areas, responsibility for ESOL delivery through the Adult Skills Fund (formerly AEB) is being devolved to Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCAs). In this rapidly changing landscape, it is vital that the full range of ESOL providers, tutors and other stakeholders are included in conversations about how support for the sector may develop in Yorkshire & Humber.
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 4 June 2025
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 4 June 2025
ESOL & Digital Learning
ESOL & Digital Learning
Digital skills are today required for all kinds of everyday communication. In the face to face classroom, embracing digital skills and learning English through digital means is now a fundamental element of ESOL - a critical skill for life that all ESOL practitioners need to take account of.
MESH Regional Network event 25th April 2025
ESOL strategies local and national: where are we now?
MESH Regional Network event 25th April 2025
ESOL strategies local and national: where are we now?
In this Regional Networking event we explore developments towards the creation of ESOL strategies and frameworks in England and more locally, and ask how things stand now. One year into a Labour government, how have things changed in terms of the promise of a national strategy in England? In the region, how have developments at local authority and combined authority level progressed and what difference have they made? Stepping outwards from this review of progress on the ground, we would also like to ask what the development of ESOL strategies might mean for ESOL practitioners, and what differences you would like to see implemented through coherent strategy, whether at local, regional or national level.
MESH AGM, 25th March 2025
MESH AGM, 25th March 2025
All are welcome to join us for our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 25 March 2025, 10:45 to 11.30 Please come and support us as we review our work and our financial position. Your attendance and support is greatly appreciated.
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 11 March 2025
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 11 March 2025
ESOL & Literacy Reflection and open forum
ESOL & Literacy Reflection and open forum
At our ESOL Lunchtime Showcase on 3rd February 2025 we focused on the issue of ESOL and literacy. In this follow-up event, we will discuss questions raised at the Showcase, and hear more about how practitioners across our region address issues related to ESOL and literacy in the classroom.
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 3rd Feb 2025
ESOL Lunchtime Showcase, 3rd Feb 2025
ESOL & Digital Literacy
ESOL & Digital Literacy
Pre-Entry classes are complex learning environments, presenting particular challenges to the ESOL teacher. One feature of this scenario is the frequent inclusion of learners with limited or no literacy in their home language. If learners are unable to read or write in their home language, developing reading and writing skills in English emerges as a huge challenge. In this session we explore these issues in more depth, and the strategies developed by colleagues in Yorkshire and Humber to address them.
East Midlands ESOL
East Midlands ESOL
ESOL Networking in the East Midlands
ESOL Networking in the East Midlands
Between January and March 2025, MESH is holding a series of networking meetings in differnt areas of the East Midlands, in collaboration with East Midlands Councils. In these events, we explore possibilities for strengthening networking between providers and other stakeholders interested in the delivery of ESOL across the East Midlands. These meetings follow our work mapping and evaluating ESOL in the East Midlands. To find out more, visit the EMC website HERE.
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