Homes and schools
in the UK
for Ukrainians

BHSU (British Homes and Schools for Ukrainians) are two teams that have combined their experience and their efforts in a non-profit joint project that began operating in March 2022.

Business Link is a Ukrainian educational agency that has existed since 1997, specialising in British education. Before the Russian aggression, it was based in Kyiv and sent up to 500 students each year to British boarding schools, universities, and language schools.

Living Learning English is a British company that has existed since 1995, offering foreigners individual English language training in the UK with accommodation at teachers’ homes.

The office of the organisation is located in Bristol.

The Ukrainian team of BHSU consists of the employees of Business Link educational agency, which has been helping clients to obtain British visas and study in the UK for 25 years.

Some of us work remotely from different cities in Ukraine under martial law. The rest of the employees are temporarily based in Bristol.

We have first-hand knowledge of all the nuances of obtaining a visa and a BRP and the difficulties that you may encounter during the relocation. Many of us have recently travelled along this path ourselves. Together, we have already helped dozens of other Ukrainians find temporary shelter in the UK.

BHSU’s UK team consists of representatives of Living Learning English, a company with a wide network of English language teachers based around the UK and willing to host foreign students at their homes.

For almost 30 years of the company’s work, its employees have developed unique skills in the selection and verification of host families, as well as servicing foreigners temporarily residing in the UK.

The company is a reputable player in the language courses market and has already begun work on teaching English free of charge to Ukrainians fleeing the war.

The goal of our project is to provide displaced Ukrainians with informational, organisational, financial and psychological support.

We work to ensure that their move to a new place of residence is painless, the adaptation period, short, and the experience of living in Britain, revitalising, rich and fruitful.

We want Ukrainians to return home after the end of the war with enhanced dignity and self-confidence, with a higher level of English, with well-established connections in the UK, and with a willingness to continue mutually beneficial Ukrainian-British cooperation at macro and micro levels in the new, post-war world.

Only well-coordinated interaction of a large mass of people and organisations can make the processes associated with the influx of temporary migrants effective, painless and safe.

The BHSU team aims to become a strong link in the network of similar organisations in the UK.

We are open to cooperation with commercial companies, non-governmental organisations, state and community services, and volunteer groups. For suggestions on cooperation, please write to: support@bhsu.co.uk.

We already work with:

• Academic Camp – providers of summer educational and leadership programmes for teenagers.
• Intrinsq – international education and software specialists.
• Password English Language Testing – a provider of online educational testing.
• BBSN – professional association of British boarding schools and educational agencies.
• Norton Accountancy Bristol – an established firm of accountants in London, Cardiff, Newport and Bristol.