Contact Alef Al-Quran Academy
If you are interested in lessons
The quickest route is to register your interest. Tell us your child’s age, what you would like them to learn, roughly where they are now, and which days and times would suit you. We will come back to you as soon as lessons open.
If you have a question first
Ask. We would rather answer ten questions before you register than have you sign up for something that turns out not to suit your child. Most questions are already answered on our FAQ page, but if yours is not there, send it.
If you have a safeguarding concern
Contact us directly and say so in the first line. You will not be routed through a general enquiry and you will not be asked to raise it with a teacher first. We respond within one working day.
If you are worried about a child’s immediate safety, do not wait for us - contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000 or the police on 101. In an emergency, call 999.
If you are a teacher
We are onboarding our first teachers. If you hold an Ijazah from Al-Azhar or a comparable institution and have experience teaching children, get in touch and tell us what you teach and what hours you can offer.
Please note our conditions before applying: cameras stay on for every lesson, no private contact with students of any kind, and parents may join any lesson without notice.
If you are a mosque, madrasah or school
We are interested in working alongside supplementary schools rather than competing with them. If you run a madrasah and have children who need one to one support you cannot provide in a group, we would like to hear from you.
Response times
- General enquiries: within two working days
- Safeguarding concerns: within one working day
- Data protection requests: within one month, as required by UK GDPR
Contact Details
Working Times:
Lessons: Monday to Sunday, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM UK time
Get in touch with us by filling contact form below
Frequently asked questions
Find clear answers to common questions and past inquiries, Clear answers to common curiosities.
The minimum needed to teach them: first name, age, level, lesson times and progress notes. We do not ask for your child’s surname, school, address or photograph, and we do not need them.
The account is held by you, not by your child. We do not profile children and we never use their data for marketing.
Our privacy policy sets out the full detail, including how long we keep things and how to have data deleted.
Yes, at any time, without giving a reason. Ask and we will arrange it.
Teaching a child is partly about personality, and sometimes a pairing simply does not work. That is nobody’s fault and you should not feel awkward about saying so.
Our teachers are graduates of Al-Azhar University in Cairo and are based in Egypt. They teach in English.
Every teacher will have a full profile on this site: their real name, photograph, the qualification they hold and the institution that granted it. We do not use stock photographs and we do not list teachers by first name only.
You receive a short written note after every lesson: what was covered, what to practise before the next one, and what comes next. Nothing long - a few lines you can read in thirty seconds.
You can also sit in on any lesson at any time, which tells you more than any report.
Yes, for a daughter or a son, and you do not need to give a reason. We will not ask for one.
We do not charge more for female teachers. If your regular teacher is unavailable one week, we will not substitute a male teacher without asking you first.
Yes - any lesson, any time, without telling us in advance and without giving a reason.
Some parents sit in on every lesson, some on the first few, some drop in occasionally. All of that is normal and welcome. No teacher will ever ask you to leave, and no teacher will suggest your child works better without you there.
We are a new academy and are onboarding our first teachers now. We are not taking bookings yet, and we would rather say that plainly than take your money and keep you waiting.
If you register your interest, we will contact you before we open to the public. After-school slots between 4pm and 8pm fill first, so early registrations get first choice.
We have not published our prices yet, because we are still onboarding our first teachers and we would rather set a rate we can hold than advertise one and change it.
For context, the UK market for one to one online Quran lessons generally runs between £20 and £45 a month for two 30-minute lessons a week. When we publish our pricing it will be in pounds sterling, with no joining fee and no minimum term.
Register your interest and we will tell you the price before anyone else.
Yes. No card details, no subscription starting quietly in the background, no obligation.
It is a full lesson rather than a sales call, and you are welcome to sit in. If it is not right for your child, that is the end of it and you owe us nothing.
From around four for short sessions on the Arabic letters, and from five or six for structured Qaida lessons.
There is no upper limit. Older beginners often progress faster than young children because they already read fluently in English. If your child is twelve and has never started, that is not too late - it is simply a different starting point.