Education Grants
Please see below for a detailed list of grants made since April 2011 for sums over £4,000. We do make smaller grants but these are not listed separately.
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Apples and Snakes |
£10,000 |
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Towards the London programme of activity for 'Shake the Dust - Adventures in a Spoken Word'; a national youth poetry slam aimed at improving the literacy skills of disadvantaged young people. |
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Baxter College |
£6,500 |
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Towards music bursaries for students. |
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Caboodle Theatre in Education |
£6,000 |
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Towards 'No Easy Answers', a performance programme in primary schools with a focus on gang culture and knife crime. |
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Charles Darwin Trust |
£7,500 |
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Towards Darwin-Inspired Learning Online, providing online teaching and learning resources for teachers and pupils to support and sustain Darwin-Inspired Learning in schools. |
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ContinYou |
£7,500 |
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Towards setting up and delivering Pyramid Clubs in primary schools, providing therapeutic activity classes to pupils who may be isolated and withdrawn. |
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Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme |
£7,500 |
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Towards the Youth Leadership Programme (DofE Award) aimed at targeting potential young leaders from disadvantaged communities across London. |
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The Fatherhood Institute |
£5,526 |
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Towards the Dad Factor programme to help three primary schools in Tower Hamlets to involve fathers in their children's learning in order to improve the children's educational outcomes. |
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Film and Video Workshop |
£7,500 |
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Towards the costs to deliver four animation workshops in special schools in London for children aged 5-16. |
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Gabbitas Truman and Thring Educational Trust |
£10,000 |
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Towards the Tomorrow's Achievers Programme, delivering masterclasses in the West Midlands for gifted and talented children. |
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Greenhouse Schools Project |
£25,000 |
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Towards Greenhouse's expansion programme. |
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Hanley Crouch Community Association |
£9,000 |
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Towards 'In Touch', a short-term educational intervention programme in Islington for young people who are excluded or at risk of exclusion from school. |
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Lighthouse Group |
£6,000 |
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Towards 'For the Community', a programme increasing the awareness of citizenship and community among disaffected young people in Hammersmith. |
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London Sports Trust |
£20,000 |
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A two year grant towards the Track Academy programme, offering an on site study support programme to young people at risk already engaged in the athletics programme at Willesdon and Linford Christie Stadiums in North West/West London. |
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Lyric Theatre Hammersmith |
£15,000 |
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Towards 'START', an educational programme for disadvantaged young people not in education, employed or training. |
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MakeBelieve Arts |
£7,500 |
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Towards the development and delivery of the Creative Approaches to Numeracy programme in primary schools in Tower Hamlets, Southwark and Lewisham. |
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The McWhirter Foundation |
£5,000 |
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Towards the 2012 Dicey Conference at Trinity College, Oxford, attended by up to 100 sixth-formers. |
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Newham Music Trust |
£5,000 |
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Towards Newham Vibe, a community radio project, which will offer training in radio production and the music business to hard to reach young people. |
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Phoenix Secondary and Primary School |
£8,000 |
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Towards the secomd year of a two-year autism project, Autism Ambassadors, developed to address issues aroud the inclusion of pupils on the autistic spectrum. |
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Roundhouse Trust |
£7,500 |
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Towards the creative Outreach Programme, engaging disadvantaged young people working through performing arts and music. |
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
£10,000 |
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Towards the Shakespeare in Schools Tour which involves RDA students performing Shakespeare to secondary schools in disadvantaged areas of London. |
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Royal Institution |
£55,350 |
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A three year grant towards a the Primary Mathematics Masterclass Series for children in five London boroughs. |
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Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership |
£20,000 |
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A two year grant towards the Aim2Attain programme which provides young people with support from the local business community, enabling them to raise asiprations and progress to University. |
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The Vine Trust Walsall |
£15,000 |
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Towards the Guided Youth Engagement Programme which provides disadvantaged young people with positive activities, support and guidance. |
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