Educational Opportunity Foundation Annual Report 2024

During our first year under our new name in 2024, our values and heritage remained more relevant than ever. It was these values that inspired us to transition from the British and Foreign School Society to the Educational Opportunity Foundation, a name that more accurately reflects our commitment to inclusivity and our belief in equality of opportunity.

We can no longer overlook the growing evidence that climate change is severely impacting the education and future prospects of millions of young people globally. Advancing our vision of educational opportunity for all now requires us to ensure we are playing our part in addressing environmental challenges. Our values were revised in 2024 and are now firmly grounded in the need to consider environmental responsibility in everything we do.

Other highlights of 2024

• Another year with a high grant spend: £746,515 awarded to 17 new main fund projects with a record £1,400,731 paid to new and ongoing grants from restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Our first full year working to our new main fund UK grant priorities, which now only focus on projects supporting care experienced young people.
• Analysed our grant giving to identify how climate change is affecting projects (mostly international), and how organisations are mitigating and working to prevent climate harm. This provided evidence for our decision-making on how to ensure our grant giving and other activities are underpinned by the need to consider environmental responsibility in the future.
• We moved our everyday banking to a ‘green’ bank and selected new investment managers to move to in 2025 to ensure our funds are always working to protect the environment while generating maximum financial support for our work.

Read the EOF Annual Report for 2024