Deferring a place
If you have received an offer but are now unable to proceed, then we can offer you the opportunity to defer your place.
However, before you defer, please first check and see if we have any alternative dates that you could simply request right now - rather than deferring.
You can see a range of available and upcoming options via the guidance here: https://questions.go-to.co/article/146-how-can-i-see-which-programmes-are-available
How to defer?
You are only eligible to defer a place after you have first made a commitment to take up an offer with us - by paying the application deposit to join us. This is because only those that have paid this refundable deposit hold a place with us, once that is held it can then be deferred. If you’d like to pay that then please go ahead and pay the deposit now and then we can defer the place. Please follow the steps in your user dashboard (here:https://www.go-to.co/user-area/) to work out how to complete the deposit step, once that is done you will be able to defer on this page:
https://www.go-to.co/defer-place/
Funding note: if funding isn't renewed, what happens to the deposit?
We take application and placement deposits, of £100 each. The application deposit is relevant to the deferral process. Please note that if you defer after having paid a placement deposit - this latter deposit is forfeit irrespective of deferral.
Once application deposits are paid, these are only redeemable upon joining a project at some point in future as a deferee. Alternately, application deposits can be transferred into a credit towards one of our education courses - these are usually TEFL courses.
Our availability of funding, countries and dates varies every 12 month cycle. When you apply for the programme you acknowledge that you are applying for a Gotoco opportunity rather than a specific set of dates/countries. We always have great opportunities of some form or other, but we cannot guarantee configurations will stay exactly the same year to year, so as a deferring candidate you acknowledge this.
If you applied specifically to a fully funded programme and the funding ceases to be available, then we'd refund the related application deposit.
If eligible for a refund, you may wish to defer instead. If you take a refund now then you become ineligible to reapply.
There are exceptional and limited grounds that entitle you to appeal for a refund, these are explored here: https://questions.go-to.co/article/32-deposits
If you are eligible for a refund, before requesting the refund please consider that you might prefer to defer. Deferral means leaving a live application in our system - tied to a deposit. If you wish to get the deposit back now then you'd need to formally withdraw from the programme, withdrawing makes you ineligible to reapply in future. We take this policy in order to protect our team time and admin resources, we cannot permit deposits to be paid and withdrawn and paid and withdrawn - as payment processing is quite a heavy accounting burden.