SELT centres · Last reviewed 13 August 2026

B1 English test booking in Bradford: approved centres

The Home Office list dated 11 August 2026 records 1 centre in Bradford, run by Trinity College London. Every address below is published in that list; every booking is made with the provider, not with this site and not through GOV.UK.

These Bradford addresses are not Life in the UK test centres

Every address below is an English language test centre, approved for the B1 Secure English Language Test. The Life in the UK Test is a separate exam, at separate venues, booked through a separate service and paid for separately — arriving at the wrong building costs you the appointment and the fee.

Nor is there a published list to compare this one with: GOV.UK states: "There are over 30 test centres in the UK. You can choose where to take your test when you book." Life in the UK venues are shown only inside the official booking service. How to find your Life in the UK test centre.

Approved centres in Bradford

Provider, centre name and address are reproduced exactly as the Home Office file records them. The file marks approval, not availability, so the dates each centre has free are visible only in that provider’s own booking system.

That is 1 centre from one of the four approved providers: Trinity College London runs 1 of its 20 UK centres here. Its published postcode is in the BD5 district.

Booking a Bradford centre

There is no central booking service for the English test: you book with the provider that runs the centre, in the name on the original photo identity document you will bring to it. These are the providers with a centre in Bradford.

Trinity College London

1 centre in Bradford

Exam to book: Graded Examinations in Spoken English (GESE) Grade 5 — B1, speaking and listening

Fee: £160 for any GESE exam, including the B1 GESE Grade 5. £200 for ISE exams. An optional add-on called Exam Protect costs £35 on top of the exam fee and allows the candidate to book one retake and reschedule once.

Book with Trinity College London · What this exam involves

IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert and Pearson do not list a Bradford centre in this edition of the list. You are free to book any approved centre in the UK, so those providers remain an option somewhere else — see all 80 centres.

On the day. Centres check identity and nothing else: take the original document you booked with, and nothing about your citizenship or settlement application. Trinity candidates sitting GESE must also complete a Topic Form in advance and bring it. Which documents count, what to do if your name has changed or the Home Office is holding your passport, and how to ask for reasonable adjustments are all on the B1 English test guide.

If Bradford has nothing free

Any approved centre in the UK can be booked, so a full diary in Bradford is not a dead end. The largest of the other listed places in Yorkshire and the Humber is Leeds, with 4 centres. These are ordered by how many centres each holds, not by distance — the file carries no coordinates, so no journey time is implied.

Or browse all 80 approved centres across 27 towns and cities on the centre finder.

You need the Life in the UK Test as well

The B1 test settles one half of the knowledge of language and life requirement. The other half is the Life in the UK Test, booked through the official government service and free to practise here, with an explanation for every answer.

Bradford centre questions

How many B1 English test centres are there in Bradford?

The Home Office list dated 11 August 2026 records 1 centre in Bradford, run by Trinity College London. Trinity College London lists Bradford at Hope Park Business Centre, Coop Place, Rooley Lane, BD5 8JX.

Where do I book a B1 English test in Bradford?

Not through GOV.UK — there is no central booking service for the English test. You book directly with the provider that runs the centre you want, in the name on the identity document you will bring. In Bradford that means Trinity College London, each with its own booking system, fees and dates.

Can I take the Life in the UK Test at these Bradford addresses?

No. Every address on this page belongs to an English language test centre approved for the B1 SELT. The Life in the UK Test is a different exam with different venues and a different booking service, and no list of its centres is published: GOV.UK states: "There are over 30 test centres in the UK. You can choose where to take your test when you book."

Sources

The 1 centre above are the Bradford rows of the Home Office spreadsheet, downloaded and parsed rather than copied from another site, and the pages of Trinity College London were opened and read. Last reviewed 13 August 2026. Check the source file and the provider before you travel.

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