Community-based learning for university students has seen a much higher profile in recent years, thanks to the Higher Education Active Funding (HEACF) initiative launched by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Home Office in 2002. The University of Wolverhampton has been one of the pioneers of this development, and in recent years we have focused increasingly on the delivery of such programmes to our cohort of international students. The need for overseas students to integrate closely with members of the host community has been well documented, and previous studies have reported a positive relationship between the frequency of international students’ interactions with their local community and their adjustment to the host society (Toyokawa and Toyokawa, 2002).