Our impact 2024

Photo courtesy of CodeBrave: coding and robotics lessons in Lebanon

During our first year under our new name our values were revised and are now firmly grounded in the need to consider environmental responsibility in everything we do. We also paid a record £1,400,731 in new and ongoing grants

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.

This was also 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. It was our first full year working to our new main fund UK grant priorities, which now only focus on projects supporting care experienced young people.

The impact of our work on young people’s lives is shown in these case studies which show how our Grant Partners are giving children hope and access to education in difficult circumstances:

We 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. We also 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 Educational Opportunity Foundation Annual Report 2024