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Latest Funding Opportunities
As part of its long-term commitment to sustainability, the Stobart Group has launched a new fund to support community-led environmental and sustainability projects across the UK. The Stobart Sustai...
Families and groups of children, schools, organisations, and other registered charities can apply for financial assistance from the Adamson Trust for the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disa...
Parents and carers of a child under the age of 19 living with a disability in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and County Durham can now apply for funding to purchase equipment such as specialist beds...
UK schools and early years’ settings can apply for grants of up to £5,000 to buy books for their libraries and encourage more children to read for pleasure. The LoveReading4Kids Funding for Scho...
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Twinkl has announced its largest-ever giveaway, offering a total of £40,000 through its Community Collection campaign to help UK-based teachers with an educational project – whether that’s a n...
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The Department for Education is offering up to £240,000 per year to expand Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs across England, an initiative aimed at strengthening early years provision and improvi...
Grants of up to £1,000 are available to schools across the UK and Ireland that teach the national curriculum, to improve their access to music by purchasing or upgrading musical instruments and/or...
Grants of up to £75,000 are available to special schools and colleges for children and young people with special educational needs. Grants are awarded toward capital costs, such as new buildings,...
The Royal Society has launched a £1.4 million scheme to strengthen practical science education in schools across the UK. Funded by the Julia Rausing Trust, the Science Community Grant scheme will...
Funding Case Studies
Co-operative Group
The Co-operative Group gives 1% of what members spend on Co-op branded food products and selected services, as well as money raised from the sales of carrier bags and Co-op Scratch cards to local projects under the Local Causes programme.
Caton St Pauls PTA, in Lancaster, received a grant of £1,063 through the Co-operative group to support the school in purchasing equipment and funding school trips which are available to all.
For more information on funding opportunities through The Co-operative group please click here.
The Aviva Community Fund
The Aviva Community Fund offers organisations the chance to get funding for causes important to their community.
Cults Primary School in Aberdeen received funding from the Fund to further develop food preparation facilities within the School to enable learners to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. The funding enabled the school to alter an existing workspace, purchase a fridge/freezer, purchase of sets of suitable catering equipment and organisation of storage and food hygiene training for identified staff
For more information on funding opportunities through the Aviva Community Fund please click here.
Wolfson Foundation
The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity that awards grants to support and promote excellence in the fields of science and medicine, health, education and the arts and humanities. Education is one of the Wolfson Foundation's central themes and underpins much of its work. Through its Education programme, the Foundation support teaching spaces at universities and secondary schools.
Lindsworth School in Birmingham received a grant of £16,000 for the refurbishment of on-site house for independent living skills programme.
For more information on funding opportunities through the Wolfson Foundation please click here.
Co-operative Group
The Co-operative Group gives 1% of what members spend on Co-op branded food products and selected services, as well as money raised from the sales of carrier bags and Co-op Scratch cards to local projects under the Local Causes programme.
Hamilton Lodge School and College for Deaf Children in Brighton received £3,608 towards a sensory room for pupils who are not only deaf, but have other disabilities such as visual impairments and cerebral palsy.
For more information on funding opportunities through The Co-operative group please click here
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, charitable grant-making foundation which supports a wide range of causes across the UK, donating over £62 million annually. The Trustees make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Environment; Religion; and Welfare.
Cropthorne with Charlton C of E First School received a grant of £1,000 for The Cropthorne Environmental Garden.
For more information on funding opportunities through the Garfield Weston Foundation please click here
The National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund funds projects and activities that make communities stronger and more vibrant, and that are led by the people who live in them. National Lottery Awards for All offers funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities.
Bildeston Primary School received a grant of £9805 to install a physical development and water play area to encourage children to explore water, build physical strength and improve confidence and team building skills.
For more information on funding opportunities through The National Lottery Community Fund please click here.
Digital Xtra Fund
The Digital Xtra Fund provides rrants of up to £5,000 to extracurricular activity providers such as schools and colleges that teach skills such as coding, data science, and computational thinking and help inspire Scotland’s next generation of designers, developers, and digital technologists.
McLaren High School received funding from the Digital Xtra Fund to help 50 pupils develop a cross-curricular digital technologies project to help inspire other pupils at the High School. Projects include a laser harp, micro-wind turbine, a robot table-tennis player, and a computer programme that can perform facial recognition. All the projects will then be presented during a McLaren STEM Festival with industry experts and public.
For more information on the funding opportunities available through the Digital Xtra Fund please click here
Awards for All (England)
Awards for All is a Lottery grants scheme funding small, local community-based projects in the UK.
Ashfield School in Leicestershire has received a grant of £4,927 from Awards for All to provide disabled pupils at the after school sports club with an extended range of activities that will also help the youngsters compete in the National Junior Disabled games. The grant has enabled the school to extend its sporting programme to include things like tri-golf and zone hockey, which can be played by all abilities.
For more information on funding opportunities through the England Awards for All programme please click here
Daiwa Foundation
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation makes grants to individuals, institutions and organisations to promote links between the UK and Japan in all fields of activity. Under its Small Grants programme, grants of £1,000-£5,000 are available for educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events.
The Cottlesloe School in Buckinghamshire, received a grant of £1,500 through the Daiwa Foundation Small Grant scheme to support an educational exchange between the school and Japanese educational institutions, using drama to explore and understand cultural differences between the two countries.
For more information on funding opportunities through the Daiwa Foundation please click here
Peter Harrison Foundation
The Peter Harrison Foundation is an independent grant-making trust which supports schools, voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK.
St. John's School and College received a grant of £14,745 to support the funding of an all-weather games area at this special needs college.
For more information on funding opportunities through the Foundation please click here
Funding Guides
This Definitive Guide to School Funding provides over 250 pages of comprehensive and in-depth information on funding sources available to schools across the UK. With over 300 funding sources featured that could support a wide range of school projects and activities, this Guide is a must have for anyone who currently finds himself or herself responsible for or involved in fundraising for schools.
See MoreSo you've done your research. You've identified relevant funders and you have a brilliant project that needs financial support. Writing a successful grant application is not so much about having a good idea for a project but more about understanding what it is that the Funding organisation is looking to support, who it is willing to support and communicating your project idea clearly and succinctly.
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