Fundraising Success | Grants
We got a £75,000 grant to create a community hub
How a London school secured funding to convert a neglected annexe into a community hub
Meet the grant provider: The Co-operative Bank
Common interests and shared values mean PTAs are among those benefiting from The Co-operative Bank’s Customer Donation Fund, discovers Zena Alli
Our community appeals helped us leverage funding for food tech
Showing that you have the backing of your school community in securing match funding or donations will stand you in good stead with grant givers, says Sharon Noble
School fundraising: We’ve received hundreds of free books
How one school teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to encourage Reading for Pleasure in its students
School grants: Funding libraries and books
How one school was granted £15,000 for their library, plus we take a look at a reading scheme
School gardens: Grow your own orchard
Veolia Orchard offers free fruit trees to schools so that pupils can plant and nurture young saplings to enhance their environment and grow food. Here, we speak to two participating schools
Grants for London schools: John Lyon’s Charity increases funding
New opportunities for schools in north and west London to get grants for cultural, trips and holiday enrichment
Meet the grants provider: Music for All
Find out more about the charity’s work to support music in schools
Pupil wellbeing: Support for mental health in schools
Joe’s Buddy Line offers resources to promote pupils’ mental health and wellbeing
Funding for school trips: We raised £6,000 to fund a trip to the seaside
‘Our primary used the FundEd grants database to secure funding towards our school trip’
School trip funding: We received a £4,800 grant to take pupils to a West End show
London headteacher Ruby Nasser received funding from the John Lyons Charity to take her pupils to the theatre
Music grants: We got a grant to buy a set of keyboards
How the charity Music for All helped Layfield Primary School enrich its music curriculum
We won a £5,000 grant to create an outdoor classroom and buy equipment
Allendale Primary School in Northumberland told us about their success
We secured grants for outdoor learning and greening our environment
Find out how Ann Edwards CofE Primary School in Cirencester secured grants to fund trips focused on outdoor learning
Focus on local grants
‘We raised £21,845 from local grants to help improve our playground’
Creating a case for support
How one school secured grants from The Wolfson Foundation
Funding a community amphitheatre
How Downlands Community School worked hard to secure funding for its community amphitheatre
Make friends with wildlife
While not strictly a grant, the Nature Friendly Schools project offers free expert support for outdoor learning
One grant leads to another
When applying for grants, it pays to have a demonstrable plan of action – and it’'s even better if you’ve already acted on that plan
Access for all
Social mobility is stalling, but one charity is helping pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities
Gender equality project
The Leys Primary and Nursery School received £35,000 to set up a gender equality project with schools in Nepal
CIF grants: We used experts to secure £3.7million
A Nottinghamshire MAT achieve its goals thanks to ICS Funding Services
Reading Oasis programme
Nightingale Primary School now has a full library thanks to a £10,000 donation
Supermarket grants
Success with two supermarket grants transformed Stallingborough Primary School’s memorial garden
Students visit concentration camp
An £18,880 grant took students from Birmingham to Bergen-Belsen
LGBT+ workshops
Embracing diversity through LGBT+ workshops
Siobhan Dowd Trust
The Siobhan Dowd Trust helped Moorlands Primary Academy restock its library
Biodome project
Severn View Academy received a £10,000 grant to install a biodome and enhance outdoor learning
The #iwill Fund
£3,600 from the #iwill Fund enabled All Saints’ CofE Primary School to run an intergenerational project
Spaces that work
The Wolfson Foundation has updated its grants programme, making it easier to access funding for cutting-edge facilities
Meet the funder: Youth Music
Youth Music is a national charity that invests in music-making projects for children and young people
Meet the funder: National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has changed its name and streamlined its grants programme
Meet the funder: Foyle Foundation
Can your library improvements be funded by the Foyle Schools Library Programme?
Meet the funder: Groundwork
Groundwork’s grant schemes are helping communities improve their outdoor space
Meet the funder: Siobhan Dowd Trust
The Siobhan Dowd Trust aims to support children and young people whose access to books and stories has been deprived
Meet the funder: Awards for All
Find out more about one of the most prominent funders of school projects
Meet the funder: The Royal Society
The Royal Society has awarded over £1.3m to STEM projects – find out what makes a good application