Recent Grants
Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) Ltd
£89,060 over three years
London
Building on existing advice work, ACE plan to pilot a face-to-face advocacy project around issues of social exclusion.
Amble Development Trust
£70,000 over two years
North East
Giving young people the opportunity to produce short video interviews, which will then become the clues for two regional "scavenger hunt" web-based games.
Antidote
£102,118 over two years
UK Multi-national
Antidote aims to achieve financial sustainability through implementing a new business model that will enable them to work with a significantly greater number of schools.
Black Families Education Support Group
£108,260 over three years
South West
The grant will fund a supplementary school and mentoring project for Black and Minority Ethnic children and young people aged 10-18.
Blyth Valley Arts & Leisure
£20,000 over one year
North East
Reducing the number of children with persistently poor school attendance and the number of school exclusions by transforming attitudes and behaviours of young people and re-engaging them in education through the delivery of Equine Assisted Learning.
Carefree - Fostering Independence Cornwall
£123,959 over three years
South West
Using group work, peer mentoring, positive activities and volunteering to give young people in care the skills to manage school and other educational provision.
CEWC-Cymru
£58,225 over three years
Wales
To extend the use of a proven classroom method for developing speaking and listening skills through establishing whole-school practices and inter-school networks.
Community Focus
£99,130 over three years
London
Family Focus is a new project aiming to increase participation in learning through engagement with arts in partnership with three supplementary schools.
Eighteen And Under
£140,227 over three years
Scotland
To deliver violence prevention programmes to children and vulnerable young people in Scotland, particularly addressing issues of bullying and violence that lead to school refusal, non-attendance and persistent truanting.
English Media Centre
£69,520 over two years
London
The grant will establish an innovative intergenerational speaking and listening project. A pilot in Lambeth would be followed by projects in Essex and North Lincolnshire.
Glasgow South East Regeneration Agency
£121,477 over two years
Scotland
The "Browsers Schools Programme" is a highly innovative project working within secondary schools in S/E Glasgow offering unique ICT based learning activities to disengaged young people.
Hampshire & IOW Youth Options
£20,000 over one year
South East
One-year pilot project to develop and implement a structured practical speaking and listening programme for young people aged 8-19 focusing on disadvantaged young people.
Herefordshire Council
£43,350 over one year
West Midlands
To use a portfolio of physical dance warm-ups and skills to reduce truancy and exclusion, delivered by trained dancers who had themselves found school life difficult. Learning mentors will be trained to continue the work with other young people in the school.
Horn of Africa Youth Association
£73,500 over three years
London
A programme offering a mentoring service to schools targeting young Somali refugees and parents to support achievement in school.
Kori Arts
£9,798 over one year
London
One year set up project teaching using arts, creativity, special exercises and academic subjects: creating excellence in supplementary education for children with special learning needs.
Learning to Lead Community Interest Company
£40,000 over one year
England Wide
The evaluation and report of "Learning to Lead" national pilot by Cambridge University and New Economics Foundation to enable national roll out.
National Literacy Trust
£124,751 over two years
UK Wide
To pilot an innovative model to develop young people's speaking and listening skills through workplace visits and school-based activities and dissemination.
Open Source Alliance for 21st Century Education ('Whole Education')
£57,220 over 14 months
UK Wide
To establish a new alliance of third sector educational organisations to work collaboratively to achieve greater impact in achieving education change in the 21st Century.
Paddington Arts
£133,219 over three years
London
The 'Word of Mouth' project will develop the social and communication skills of young people from disadvantaged inner-city areas, as well as their technical and creative skills.
Peace Child International
£89,350 over three years
East of England
A conflict and communication peer education programme, to support young people to better understand situations involving conflict and how to deal with them.
Polegate and Willingdon Schools' Federation
£80,700 over three years
South East
A cross-phase initiative to raise standards, improve attendance and reduce exclusions across and beyond a formal federation of two primary schools and one secondary school.
Shoreditch Trust
£37,541 over three years
London
Two intergenerational projects within a supplementary school setting; oral storytelling training for parents and the compilation of storyboards through quilt work.
Society of Indian Teachers & Associates (SOITA)
£9,950 over one year
London
To encourage and support some Asian mother-tongue schools of London to use the Asset Languages scheme of assessment developed by OCR.
Southfield Community Action Forum
£36,730 over two years
North West
Enhancing the educational and social skills of young people through an interactive learning programme in partnership with mosques.
Southside Young Leaders Academy
£150,000 over three years
London
To develop leadership potential and raise aspirations for young boys from the BME community who are at risk of exclusion from school.
Street Dreams Projects Ltd
£60,180 over two years
South East
An intensive self development & life skills programme for young people on the brink of permanent exclusion.
Tacade
£103,194 over 2.5 years
UK Wide
To work in-depth with schools in four countries of the UK to tackle homophobia and create more supportive learning environments for all.
The Hanover Foundation
£9,987 over one year
London
An in depth evaluation of Hanover's work to enhance speaking and listening and interpersonal skills, providing both hard and soft evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of these skills in the level 2 qualification.
The Learning Challenge Foundation Limited
£30,000 over three years
North East
Part-time salary of a senior practitioner (over 3 years) to develop critical creative curriculum for disengaged learners.
The Lighthouse Group UK Ltd
£122,706 over three years
Yorkshire & Humber
A three-year long expansion programme that will increase the number of alternative education centres across the UK re-engaging young people with education.
Tower Hamlets Summer University
£150,000 over two years
London
The programme will place young people at the heart of Summer Uni development by training them to quality assure provision linked to a new kitemark.
Toynbee Hall
£135,982 over 3 years
London
An innovative youth programme geared towards the needs of a frequently overlooked group of young people: those excluded within rather than from education.
Tutu Foundation UK
£200,000 over three years
England Wide
Creation and roll out over 3 years of ubuntu-based tools to enable young people to plan, execute and evidence transformation in communities.