The paper may be of interest to staff at educational institutions with significant numbers of non-English speaking background students. These students may be studying ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), or they might be enrolled in mainstream courses but still need extra help with their English. The paper is based on the peer tutoring programme at the School of Languages, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, where it has been successfully running for more than four years. The following areas will be discussed with a view to encourage other institutions to set up similar programmes: * rationale for Peer Tutoring of ESOL students by native speakers of English * overview of the programme at Unitec - training sessions for peer tutors * documentation required to set up the programme * evaluation of the peer tutoring experience.