Exeter Consortium Schools' Alliance partner schools receive FREE access to FundEd, a time-saving toolkit for School Business Managers, which features a comprehensive range of proven income generation solutions. The package includes: |
- Access to the FundEd grants database: featuring over £12m-worth of grants specifically aimed at schools
- FundEd Magazine: a 60-page glossy publication sent once a term
- A ‘grant application’ checking service (a specialist Bid writer to read through and comment on applications)
- Funding alerts and monthly FundEd mailings
- Discounted workshops and training support
If you require a subscription to FundEd please inform mark@exeterconsortium.com
Additionally, please see below a list of grant funding agencies and Trusts...
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
More information here: Arts Council Grants
BBC Children in Need grants
Funding is available to not-for-profit organisations that are supporting children and young people of 18 years and under who are experiencing disadvantage through:
The following levels of funding are available:
- Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
- Any kind of disability
- Behavioural or psychological difficulties
- Living in poverty or situations of deprivation
The following levels of funding are available:
- Main Grants of over £10,000 are available to support projects for up to three years. There is no upper limit but very few grants over £100,000 are made and most grants are for much less.
- Small Grants of up to £10,000 are available for one year.
British Science Week grants
Grant schemes available to support British Science Week activities.
More information here: British Science Week Grants
More information here: British Science Week Grants
B&Q COMMUNITY RE-USE SCHEME
The scheme is in place to donate unsellable products and materials for re-use by local schools, other educational institutions and community groups, for the benefit of the local community and the environment.
More information here: B&Q Community Re-Use Scheme
More information here: B&Q Community Re-Use Scheme
Community Fund (National Lottery)
The Community Fund award money raised by National Lottery players to fund great ideas that help communities to thrive.
Groups can apply for funding under £10,000, or over £10,000, depending on what you want to do.
Link HERE to find information on:
Groups can apply for funding under £10,000, or over £10,000, depending on what you want to do.
Link HERE to find information on:
- types of projects funded
- who can apply for funding
- what makes a good application
- how much money can be offered and for how long
- costs that can and can’t be funded
- what your organisations needs in place to apply
- where you can get help setting up an organisation
- what types of organisation can apply
- who they can’t accept applications from
Devon County Councillor locality budgets
Each County Councillor has an allocation of £10,000 each year to enable them to respond to local needs in their divisions, supporting projects or activities for the benefit of the communities which they represent.
The use of locality budgets will vary from one area to another, in part reflecting the diverse nature of the communities that make up the County. Certain principles have been agreed by the Council to guide the use of locality budgets and to ensure financial probity, value for money and accountability. These are set out below:
The use of locality budgets will vary from one area to another, in part reflecting the diverse nature of the communities that make up the County. Certain principles have been agreed by the Council to guide the use of locality budgets and to ensure financial probity, value for money and accountability. These are set out below:
- The project or activity not being able to be easily funded from another source (the principle of “investor of last resort”).
- Consistency with the council’s current policies.
- Evidence of value for money (perhaps measured in part by match-funding leverage secured).
- Appropriate levels of auditing and accounting are in place
- The extent to which the investment encourages or triggers partnership working
- Enabling a wide range of organisations to be able to apply for funds
elmgrANT TRUST
The Elmgrant Trust is a charity which makes grants for charitable purposes to individuals living in the south west of England and to organisations and groups with projects in the south west. By so doing it aims to improve the quality of local life and welfare through education, the arts and social sciences.
The South West includes the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
More information here: The Elmgrant Trust
The South West includes the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
More information here: The Elmgrant Trust
Ernest Cook Trust
As well as offering a wide-ranging programme of land-based learning for children and young people, the Ernest Cook Trust gives grants to registered charities, schools and not-for-profit organisations wishing to encourage young people’s interest either in the countryside and the environment or the arts (in the broadest sense) or aiming to raise levels of literacy and numeracy.
More information can be found here: Ernest Cook Trust
More information can be found here: Ernest Cook Trust
Farringdon House Trust
This charity considers grants for further education and training for young people under 21 years who are resident in Devon. The Trustees meet quarterly. For an application form and further details please contact:
Linda Harry, c/o Michelmores Solicitors Woodwater House Pynes Hill Exeter EX2 5WR
Telephone: 01392 687403 or email: ldh@michelmores.com
Visit their website here: The Farringdon House Trust
Linda Harry, c/o Michelmores Solicitors Woodwater House Pynes Hill Exeter EX2 5WR
Telephone: 01392 687403 or email: ldh@michelmores.com
Visit their website here: The Farringdon House Trust
Football Foundation funding
From new goalposts to new pitches, find out how the Football Foundation can help.
For more information please link here: Football Foundation Funding
For more information please link here: Football Foundation Funding
Foyle Foundation
The Foyle Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities. The Foundation does not support applications from individuals. More information here: Foyle Foundation
GARFIELD WESTERN 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. A consistent theme of the Foundation since its inception in 1958 has been the importance placed on the support for education, from small local projects such as reading schemes and after school clubs, to major institutions such as universities. For more information link here: Garfield Western Foundation
Greggs foundation
You may be eligible to apply for their Local Community Projects Fund and their Environmental Grants programmes. Link to their website here: Greggs Foundation Grants
Hamilton Trust
Supporting teachers. Please link to their website here: Hamilton Trust
Heles trust
For any person 5-25 years who has been educated within the maintained sector in Exeter (i.e. LA schools or Exeter College). NB: In order to maximise funding available for educational purposes, the Trustees have decided not to offer funding for GAP year projects or Higher Education places.
The Trust will consider funding anything as long as there is a need expressed by either the school or the individual.
The school must be a maintained school in Exeter or the individual pupil must be attending (or has attended) a maintained school in Exeter.
Schools can apply as well as individuals.
Examples include small building projects, equipment for the classroom, school trips, equipment for individuals which supports their education.
For further information and an application form please contact:
Clerk to Heles Educational Trust, 123 Hamlin Lane, Heavitree, Exeter EX1 2SF
Tel: (01392) 421425
The Trust will consider funding anything as long as there is a need expressed by either the school or the individual.
The school must be a maintained school in Exeter or the individual pupil must be attending (or has attended) a maintained school in Exeter.
Schools can apply as well as individuals.
Examples include small building projects, equipment for the classroom, school trips, equipment for individuals which supports their education.
For further information and an application form please contact:
Clerk to Heles Educational Trust, 123 Hamlin Lane, Heavitree, Exeter EX1 2SF
Tel: (01392) 421425
Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme
Kellogg’s has teamed up with Forever Manchester to award grants of £1,000 to school Breakfast Clubs, to help them provide breakfast to those children who need it most.
You can apply for an award at any date and you will hear within one month if you have been successful. Please note the fund may close if oversubscribed. More information here: Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme
You can apply for an award at any date and you will hear within one month if you have been successful. Please note the fund may close if oversubscribed. More information here: Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants Programme
landfill communities fund
Landfill Communities Fund schemes offers funding to local projects in Devon. Find out more about the Landfill Communities Fund in Devon.
Non-profit organisations within ten miles of Viridor’s Heathfield landfill site in Devon can once again apply for funding to the Landfill Communities Fund, through Viridor Credits.
More information here
Non-profit organisations within ten miles of Viridor’s Heathfield landfill site in Devon can once again apply for funding to the Landfill Communities Fund, through Viridor Credits.
More information here
Music for All
Small grants to address the musical needs of community music groups and educational organisations.
Music for All provides small grants for activities which improve access to music and for the purchase of musical instruments.
Grants for individuals – to provide financial assistance for the purchase of music lessons or musical instruments. Applicants most in need of assistance are prioritised.
Grants for communities – for projects and initiatives that aim to bring music to the community. Grants are typically around £2,500 and can be used to purchase instruments and associated equipment, or for teaching costs.
Community music groups and educational organisations, including schools, can apply.
Further information here: Music for All
Music for All provides small grants for activities which improve access to music and for the purchase of musical instruments.
Grants for individuals – to provide financial assistance for the purchase of music lessons or musical instruments. Applicants most in need of assistance are prioritised.
Grants for communities – for projects and initiatives that aim to bring music to the community. Grants are typically around £2,500 and can be used to purchase instruments and associated equipment, or for teaching costs.
Community music groups and educational organisations, including schools, can apply.
Further information here: Music for All
Princes's Trust Grants
Grants to help young people into education, training and employment.
More information here: Princes's Trust
More information here: Princes's Trust
reaching communities (lottery funding)
Reaching Communities make grants of over £10,000 in England, supporting organisations with great ideas that enable communities to thrive.
The grants are awarded to voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to five years. They can fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.
Funding priorities:
Support ideas that meet one or more of three funding priorities.
The grants are awarded to voluntary and community organisations or social enterprises for up to five years. They can fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs.
Funding priorities:
Support ideas that meet one or more of three funding priorities.
- bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities
- improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
- enable more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage
Speakers for schools
A network of leading speakers who want to give back to young people in state schools.
More information here: Speakers for Schools
More information here: Speakers for Schools
St John’s Hospital Educational Foundation
For any person under the age of 25 who attends a school in Exeter.
The Foundation may fund school trips (including trips abroad); school uniform; essential equipment; tuition fees; courses; musical instruments; books; IT equipment etc, etc.
For further information and an application form please contact: St John's Hospital Education Foundation
The Foundation may fund school trips (including trips abroad); school uniform; essential equipment; tuition fees; courses; musical instruments; books; IT equipment etc, etc.
For further information and an application form please contact: St John's Hospital Education Foundation
State Schools and The Foyle Schools Library Programme
The majority of our funding for schools will now be directed to our flagship programme, The Foyle School Library Scheme, which gives priority to primary schools. This programme recognises that there is no statutory requirement for schools to have a library and that many school libraries are in a desperate situation through underfunding and underdevelopment. Encouraging children to read widely from an early age will provide a major boost to improving literacy levels, which is a current key educational objective.
More information here: Foyle Foundation
More information here: Foyle Foundation
sutton trust
The Sutton Trust support young people from less advantaged backgrounds to access leading universities and careers. In partnership with universities and employers, we run engaging programmes that give students practical advice and leave them feeling inspired and more confident about their future.
More information here: Sutton Trust
More information here: Sutton Trust
Tesco community grants
For further information please click here: Tesco Stronger Starts
Partnership Grants of up to £3000 are available to schools to enable students, aged 5 – 18, to carry out science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) projects. Additionally we are looking to support projects on computing and data science.
More information here: Partnership Grants
More information here: Partnership Grants
TRUSTHOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation fund work which addresses the challenges of local communities in areas of extreme deprivation. Find out more HERE.