New grants awarded – winter/spring 2025

In two Grants Committee meetings so far this year, £382,946 has been awarded in grants for two UK and four international projects.

• Children on the Edge – £60,000 over two years for a pilot project to provide accredited education, rights knowledge, digital and life skills to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion for Mahadalit children in Bihar State, Northeast India.
• Seenaryo – £60,000 over two years to support teachers in Gaza to use their Playkit app resources to provide early years and primary education for 5,400 displaced children, through music, story and play.
• Scotswood – £60,000 over two years to run Forest Schools in the UK for care experienced young people focused on relationship development, reflection and achieving goals, partly through conservation and tree planting activities. Partnering with Newcastle University to evaluate.
• Afghanistan and Central Asian Association – £87,746 over three years to run a project for 200 care experienced young people in the UK from ethnic minority backgrounds. Includes mentoring to support academic progress and careers workshops, with a focus on IT skills, employability and life skills.
• HealthProm – £55,200 over two years for a home-schooling project for 200 girls in Afghanistan aged 12-18, to learn numeracy and literacy as well as sewing and handicrafts as well as health education, hygiene and nutrition.
• Fields of Life – £60,000 over two years to deliver a project in 10 schools in Uganda focused on teacher training, STEM, IT and menstrual hygiene support. The project aims to scale up a project which previously strongly improved education in five schools, particularly in IT, and led to increased attendance.

Details of our application process and criteria are outlined here