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.
We will confirm this when we publish our pricing. Most academies offer something for a second and third child, and we expect to do the same.
What we will not do is put two siblings in one lesson and call it a discount. They are rarely at the same stage, and one of them always ends up waiting.
Tell us in writing with two weeks notice. No reason needed and we will not ask for one, and there is no cancellation fee.
Any lessons you have paid for and not taken are refunded. Our full refund policy sets out the detail.
Yes. Give us one week’s notice and we will hold your regular slot for up to six weeks. You are not charged while lessons are paused.
Families pause for half-term, the summer holidays, exam periods and Ramadan. We build the schedule around the British school year rather than against it.
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.
30 minutes for younger children, 45 minutes from around age nine. Twice a week suits most children learning to read; three times a week for structured memorisation.
Two 30-minute lessons will take a child further than one 60-minute lesson. Children forget a meaningful amount within about four days, so frequency matters more than length.
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.
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.
Yes, and most families do. Each child has their own one to one lesson at their own level rather than sharing a slot, because siblings are rarely at the same stage even when they are close in age.
We will try to arrange consecutive slots so the whole thing happens in one block of your evening rather than twice.
A laptop, tablet or phone with a working camera and microphone, and a reasonably stable internet connection. A laptop or tablet is easier than a phone because the screen is bigger and the child’s hands stay free.
If your child is already using a Qaida or Mushaf, have it with them. If not, we will tell you which book to get after the first lesson - there is no need to buy anything in advance.