Lingu provides subsidised English language training to charities, NGOs and not-for-profit organisations whose work helps people learn English — refugees rebuilding careers, communities accessing education, skilled professionals starting again in a new country. Partners get the full Lingu English platform: A1 to C2 self-study courses, live practice with expert teachers, and progress reporting designed for funder accountability.
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Every NGO partnership includes the same product the rest of Lingu English runs on — built for adults, taught by real teachers, with AI between sessions rather than in place of them.
Most cheap English platforms cope with scale by removing the teacher. Lingu’s approach is the opposite: keep the teacher at the centre of the experience, and use technology to make their time matter for more.
The learners you serve have often been doctors, teachers, engineers, lawyers. A chatbot wearing a friendly avatar isn’t what they need. They need a teacher who will explain nuance, push them to speak when they’d rather not, and treat them as the professionals they are. Lingu’s AI handles the work that scales — drilling pronunciation, marking writing, simulating short conversations — so teachers can spend their hours on the work that doesn’t: motivation, feedback, and the small adjustments that turn understanding into use.
The people your organisation serves deserve a platform that respects them. That’s the bar.
Lingu partners with Breaking Barriers (formerly RefuAid), a London-based charity that helps refugees and people seeking asylum rebuild their careers in the UK.
Breaking Barriers consistently cites language as one of the biggest barriers to integration — for day-to-day life, for access to higher education, and for skilled professionals trying to resume the careers they trained for. Lingu provides their participants with structured online English learning so that improving their language doesn’t depend on volunteer availability or commute time, and so progress can be measured against the qualifications they’re working towards.
It’s a partnership we’re proud of and one we want to deepen. If your organisation does similar work and would like to talk about how a Lingu partnership might fit, we’d like to hear from you.
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Lingu’s NGO work extends beyond the UK. We currently support partner organisations in Mozambique with subsidised access to the Lingu English platform, helping local learners build the English skills they need for education, employment, and connection with the wider region.
Further detail — partner name, the cohort served, programme outcomes — to be added once approved by the partner.
NGO partners don’t get a chatbot for support. From the moment a partnership starts you have a named contact at Lingu who handles onboarding, trains your admins, and is the person you email when something needs to happen.
Registered charities, NGOs and not-for-profit organisations whose objectives include helping people improve their English. Size isn’t a barrier — we work with small specialist charities and with international NGOs operating across multiple countries.
Partnerships are subsidised against our standard B2B pricing, and we design each one around the funding context your organisation operates in. We bill per active learner, so unused seats don’t cost you. Talk to our partnerships team and we’ll work out what fits.
Every partner admin can see hours studied, CEFR-aligned progression, course completion, and live-class attendance at both the learner and cohort level. Reports are exportable for inclusion in funder updates and grant acquittals.
Yes. NGO partners get a dedicated URL, your logo, and your colour palette so the learning environment looks like your programme, not a third-party app. Course content remains Lingu’s; the experience around it is yours.
The learner dashboard is mobile-first, runs in any modern browser, and works on low-bandwidth connections (around 2 Mbps minimum). There’s nothing to install and no coursebooks to manage. Your onboarding contact at Lingu can help you plan a rollout that suits learners new to digital study.
Yes. New learners can join at any time and are billed pro-rata for the month they join. Removed learners keep access until the end of the billing period you’ve already paid for, and you’re not charged for them after that.
Yes — one-to-one lessons, dedicated speaking practice groups, bespoke masterclasses on topics you choose, specially commissioned courses, and training for the teachers you already have. These sit outside the standard subsidised package and are quoted per engagement.
Tell us about your organisation, the learners you serve, and the outcomes you’re working towards. We’ll come back to you with a partnership shape we think fits.
