Our History

2013: Founded as Blue Door English by St. Andrew’s Scots Church, volunteer teachers begin assisting members of the community in need of linguistic first-aid.
2018: Classes by women for women open. Migrant mothers and survivors of sex trafficking and/or gender based violence sign up, and are offered free childcare during class.
2020: A global pandemic moves classes online.
2021: Blue Door English becomes an official voluntary organisation and independent NGO.
2022: In-person digital literacy classes launch, with a focus on navigating basic office software using just a smartphone.
2023: Re-branded as Blue Door Education, financial literacy classes open, and we team up with The VX-Foundry for weekly up-skilling workshops.
2024: In collaboration with AWAS, we begin off-site language classes for students in HOC, and unaccompanied minors in safe houses. In addition, our first mathematics class opens.
2025: We launch our literacy videos on YouTube and TikTok.

We remain immensely grateful to St. Andrew's Scots Church for continuing to provide us with a safe and welcome space in which to carry out our operations, in exchange for a monthly donation towards overheads.