OUR STORY • HUDDERSFIELD • SINCE 2014
One Small Room.
Four Students.
A Vision Built to Travel.
Founded in Huddersfield in 2014, Tuition Time began with one teacher, four students and a belief that excellent education and care should be within reach of every family.
Today, that small beginning has grown into two community Hubs where learning, care and giving back come together
WHere it began
Built from lived experience
Before Tuition Time had a name, its founder, Tyiab Sethi, spent nearly a decade at Eastborough Junior Infant and Nursery School in Dewsbury, helping Year 6 pupils through one of the most important stages of primary school.
But the idea behind Tuition Time was also personal. Growing up in a single-parent home, Tyiab understood the pressure families could face: stretched budgets, difficult choices and the feeling that excellent support was sometimes reserved for those who could afford more.
That experience stayed with him. It shaped a simple belief: every family should be able to access excellent learning and care without feeling left behind.
“Single-parent families were never an afterthought. They were part of the reason Tuition Time began.”
2014 - Birkby, huddersfield
One small room.
Four students.
In 2014, Tuition Time opened in one small room in Birkby with just four students.
Tyiab was the teacher, administrator and everything in between. He continued working full-time in Dewsbury while building Tuition Time during evenings and weekends, supported by the people closest to him.
The promise was straightforward: provide outstanding tuition at a price that real families could afford.
Ofsted registration followed in early 2015. By the end of that year, the first tutor had joined and the small room was beginning to fill.
2014
The first Tuition Time room opened in Birkby.
4 students
The small group that began the journey.
One promise
Excellent support within reach of local families.
our purpose
Built Around Families From The Beginning
Tuition Time did not grow through outside investment or a finished blueprint. It grew gradually through teaching, listening to families and responding to what the community genuinely needed.
Keeping education and care accessible was never treated as an optional extra. From the beginning, the aim was to keep support within reach, offer families flexibility and help them understand the financial support available to them.
Teacher first
The journey began in the classroom, with direct experience of what children, parents and schools needed.
Families shaped the journey
New services developed in response to the needs families brought through the door.
Giving back was built in
The organisation was designed to support families, strengthen its community and help good travel further.
“The aim was never simply to build a tuition centre.
It was to build something families could genuinely rely upon.”
our journey
Every new chapter began with a need
Tuition Time did not grow by adding disconnected services.
Each new chapter developed from something families and the wider community genuinely needed.
Tuition Time opens
Tuition Time opens in one small room in Birkby with four students.
The first steps forward
Ofsted registration follows and the first tutor joins the growing team.
Learning grows wider
Tuition Time Languages launches after recognising that some children needed a more accessible approach to Arabic learning. Basic Urdu and the first adult classes followed.
The doors closed, the giving did not
When the doors closed during the pandemic, the Hub used its own resources to provide meals and practical support for children, families and frontline NHS workers.
ILM Academy develops
Tuition Time Languages develops into ILM Academy, creating a specialist home for Qur’an reading, Islamic studies and Arabic learning. Adult learning later develops under Skills+.
Give A Little Back CIC is established
Give A Little Back CIC is established as a separate Community Interest Company, with its own directors, programmes and funding.
Two Hubs, one connected model
Two Huddersfield Hubs now bring tuition, childcare, faith education, adult learning and giving back together.
2020 - the pandemic
When the doors closed, the giving didn’t
During the 2020 lockdowns, students could no longer come through the Hub’s doors. But the responsibility to the community did not disappear.
Inspired by the national campaign to protect children who depended on free school meals, the Hub began providing meals and food packs for local families. Food was also provided for NHS workers serving on the front line.
There were no grants supporting this work at the beginning. The help came through the Hub’s own resources and its commitment to giving back. For a period, more was being given out than the organisation was bringing in, but the work continued.
The Hub worked alongside Halifax Opportunities Trust, Horton Housing and The Welcome Centre to reach families who needed support, and also supported pupils from William Henry Smith School.
“Our doors were closed to learners, but they were never closed to our community.”
OUR GIVE-BACK STORY
One shared beginning.
Two separate roles.
Run by Tuition Time Hub
Give a Little Back Impact Pledge
Tuition Time Hub’s own giving promise. Since 2014, the Hub has given 20% of its profits to local community projects and global causes.
Part of Tuition Time Hub’s operating model.
At least 20% of profits from the main learning and care services are pledged.
Supports families, local community work and selected global causes.
It is not an additional charge added to family fees.
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Independent Non-Profit Entity
Give A Little Back CIC
A registered Community Interest Company that runs free local programmes for eligible children, young people, women, families and adults across Kirklees. All its funding is used for its community purposes.
A separate Community Interest Company established in 2023.
Has its own directors, programmes, accounts and funding.
Concentrates its funded work within the local community.
It is not a department or charitable arm of Tuition Time Hub.
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The Hub’s Impact Pledge is not the CIC, and the CIC is not a charitable arm of Tuition Time Hub.
what we are building
A self-sustaining Hub that keeps giving back
The long-term vision is to build community Hubs where excellent learning and care generate the strength needed to support families, develop new opportunities and create impact beyond the building itself.
STAGE 1
Learn and care
Families access trusted education, childcare and community learning.
STAGE 2
Build sustainable services
Quality services create reliable income, employment and long-term stability.
STAGE 3
Pledge at least 20% of profits
A defined share of profits from the main learning and care services is committed to giving back.
STAGE 4
Create a wider ripple
The impact reaches local families, community programmes and selected causes around the world.
“The services sustain the Hub. The community gives it purpose. The impact travels further.”
The Tuition Time Hub
Learning, care and opportunity
under one roof
What began as one tuition room has developed into a connected group of services supporting children, families and adults at different stages of their journey.
Tuition
Time
English, maths and science support from primary school through to GCSE.
Legends Care
Ofsted-registered morning, after-school and holiday care.
ILM Academy
Qur’an reading, Islamic studies and Arabic learning for children aged five and above.
Holiday Clubs
Seasonal clubs combining activities, trips, cooking, sport, creative experiences and hot meals.
Skills+
Adult learning focused on digital confidence, AI skills and employability.
Recognition and standards
Trusted locally.
Built to recognised standards.
Every capability we bring to the table was tested in the field, refined through relentless iteration, and forged without shortcuts.
Ofsted-registered provision
Two Huddersfield Hubs supporting education and care.
Dingley’s Promise
Recognition of our commitment to welcoming and supporting children with SEND.
Three Best Rated
Tuition Time has been recognised as one of Huddersfield’s three best private tutors.
over a decade of progress
The Journey So Far
Serving Huddersfield & Families.
Supported across the wider journey.
Given to local and global causes.
Delivered across a typical year.
Bringing learning, care and giving back together.
A growing team of more than 50 staff, tutors and volunteers helps make this work possible.
tHE PEOPLE BEHING THE JOURNEY
Founder-led.
People-powered.
The journey began with one person teaching four students, but it could never have grown through one person alone.
Tyiab’s lived experience, classroom background and belief in accessible support gave Tuition Time its original direction.
The staff, tutors, volunteers, families and community partners who joined along the way helped turn that belief into something much bigger.
The vision remains founder-led, but its strength comes from the people who carry it forward every day.
“One person can begin a journey. It takes a community to make it travel.”
Tyiab
Founder & Managing Director
THE NEXT CHAPTER
One small room was only
the beginning
The next chapter is about taking what has been learned in Huddersfield and carefully developing more self-sustaining community Hubs: places where excellent learning and care create employment, strengthen families and fund positive impact beyond their own walls.
Future plans include new early-years provision, practical community learning and opportunities to help committed local leaders explore how a Hub could work in their own community.
The goal is not expansion for its own sake.
It is to build carefully, protect the purpose and allow the ripple to travel further.
Locally led
Each Hub should understand and respond to the community around it.
Operationally sustainable
Strong services and responsible systems should create long-term stability.
Built to give back
Success should produce opportunities and impact beyond the organisation itself.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
GROWING TOGETHER
Be part of what comes next
Whether you are a parent, educator, volunteer, partner or community leader,
there is a place for you in the next chapter of the Tuition Time Hub journey.
Discover The Hub’s Impact Pledge
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the best of education, the best of care, and giving back everywhere.
Where Education, Childcare, and Compassion come together.
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Tuition Time Hub brings together independent learning, childcare and community initiatives. Childcare registration and service details apply only to the relevant provision and location.
Give A Little Back CIC is a separate community interest company.
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Where Education, Childcare, and Compassion come together.
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Opening Hours:
Opening hours vary by
location and service.
Please check your chosen centre for full details.
Tuition Time Hub — Learn, Care, Give Back
Ofsted-registered childcare is provided only through the relevant registered provision and location.
Give A Little Back CIC is a separate Community Interest Company.
Copyright 2026. Tuition Time Hub. All rights reserved.