Recent Grants
Grants Awarded since March 2013
Academy FM Folkestone
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£40,631
South East
105.9 Academy FM Folkestone Motiv8 is a three-year work training programme for 16-19 year old NEETs to develop their speaking and listening skills and to improve employability skills and attitude to work through presenting on the radio.
Digital Me
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£198,754
UK wide
'Supporter To Reporter For Success' will support 1,280 11-16 year olds to develop their speaking and listening skills through becoming sports reporters. Participants will progress through a structured skills framework, going on to apply what they have learned at high profile sports events and access 'career tasters' offered by media partners including the BBC and Sky. DigitalMe and partners The For Success Foundation will pilot flexible resources to be shared with Playing for Success clubs and schools nationwide.
Envision
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£90,000
London
Community Apprentice is an experiential learning programme which will help young people develop the confidence, communication and relationship-building skills they need to become active citizens.
Gladesmore Community School
Supplementary Education
£11,200
London
Two-year support for Gladesmore Community School to continue to develop its innovative community language practice and further develop its partnerships with local primary, secondary, and supplementary schools.
National Foundation for Educational Research
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£10,000
England Multi-Region
School recruitment for a research project to build sector knowledge about approaches to (re-)engage a sub-group (3/5) of NEET students, most likely to be able to achieve positive outcomes.
My Voice London
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£9,900
London
Developing a transition mentoring pilot to train non-teaching school staff in primary and secondary schools supporting young people at risk of truancy and exclusion.
Red Balloon of the Air
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£160,000
UK wide
To develop, test and scale-up resources and delivery of an online school and create a sustainable model for the programme.
Grants Awarded since October 2012
BANG Edutainment Ltd.
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£110,337
UK Multi-National
A two-year pilot to develop a rigorous, flexible speaking and listening curriculum for use in community radio stations. Trialled with and reviewed by 420 young people in 10 cities in England and Wales, this project builds directly on learning generated by existing youth radio work to develop and disseminate a set of practical resources to significantly increase high quality skills development opportunities in the sector.
The Communication Trust
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£149,394
England Multi-Region
A two year pilot to launch a new national network of young 'communication leaders' to play a key role in tackling the communication issues that they, their siblings, their family and friends experience.
The Design & Technology Association
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£104,309
UK wide
UK wide designing and making projects based in the community provide pupils with spontaneous and engaging opportunities to develop their speaking and listening skills.
Education for Employability
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£9,772
England Multi-Region
To develop guidance and supporting materials for students, teachers and employers to improve the quality of students' speaking and listening skills when working with employers.
Southwark Mediation Centre
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£81,495
London
Youth mediators aged 17-19 will develop speaking and listening skills and provide a conflict resolution service in Southwark schools and the wider community.
Grants Awarded since July 2012
Boys Development Project
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£58,100
London
Early intervention programme to target boys in KS 1 who "stand out" and are at risk of underachieving to address behaviour that leads to truancy and/or exclusion.
Families Talking
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£149,394
North East
Training teachers to support children who are experiencing family breakdown during the transition from primary to secondary school, preventing truancy and exclusion and improving engagement with learning.
Further Education Tutorial Network
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£125,000
England Multi-Region
Supporting 220 Foundation Level learners at 8 further education institutions across England to develop speaking, listening and other research skills to investigate effective personal and social learning, engaging with a range of college, work-based, and community stakeholders to develop and present recommendations for more relevant, authentic personal and social skills programmes in their institution.
Goldsmiths College
Supplementary Education
£129,628
London
A two-year collaborative project, teachers and students in four supplementary schools and three mainstream schools across London will work with Goldsmiths researchers to plan, implement and evaluate a multilingual digital storytelling project designed to engage secondary age students in language learning.
The Mulberry Bush Organisation
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£98,570
South East
To develop an outreach service, offering the expertise and ethos of the Mulberry Bush Organisation, to mainstream and special schools across Oxfordshire, and neighbouring counties.
People and Work Unit
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£125,413
Wales
Glyncoch School Focused Communities Project: developing a community response to chronic disengagement with education and learning.
The Philosophy Foundation
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£57,801
London
Philosophy in Education: Transition Project will run philosophical enquiries with Year 7 students to develop a deeper understanding of communication and questioning skills and equipping them to facilitate philosophical enquiries with younger children.
Saturday Polish School
Supplementary Education
£86,040
North East
Strategic educational support for newly arrived families, in partnership with schools across Northumberland and Berwickshire.
The School Development Support Agency Limited
Supplementary Education
£172,734
East Midlands
Develop mainstream school hubs that support either geographic or thematic groups of supplementary schools, providing teacher training, head2head mentoring groups, guidance and support.
Shpresa Programme
Supplementary Education
£230,735
London
Aiming Higher: Developing clusters of mainstream schools working in partnership with supplementary schools by Shpresa training, mentoring staff/volunteers and modelling excellent practice.
Grants Awarded since May 2012
Active Citizens FE
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£74,317
UK wide
Funding to sustain core advice and training for parents and carers of children having difficulty with the education system.
Institute for Philanthropy
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£154,250
Northern Ireland
Launch of YPI in Northern Ireland, to pilot in 15 schools over three years, giving young people a 'hands-on' experience of giving whilst developing their communication and presentation skills.
LIFT for Learning
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£237,465
UK Multi-national
3-year England and Wales scale up of DigiSmart, an engaging literacy and ICT intervention targeting 20,000 at-risk Year 5 students. LIFT will develop its intervention in relation to growing national evidence base linking low primary-age literacy to an increased likelihood of truancy and exclusion in secondary school.
Phoenix Education Trust
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£140,000
England Multi-region
A two year pilot working closely with six clusters of secondary schools across England to develop, test, and roll-out a peer-led speaking and listening training programme to support broader and more inclusive take-up of student voice opportunities.
Rathbone
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£155,885
UK wide
Tweet-A-Tale is a creative arts based project that will encourage community connection and the development of verbal and ICT literacy of marginalised young people - to be rolled out across Rathbone's 60+ centres across the UK.
School-Home Support Service (UK)
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£128,178
UK wide
Investment in SHS' IT capacity to enable new forms of delivery and support to school-home link workers through IT (such as online training modules and membership services) as part of the organisation's remodelling and scale up plans.
Teignmouth Learning Trust
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£68,500
South West
Working across a partnership of six schools to extend a successful primary-age therapeutic intervention to support children and young people at risk of truancy and exclusion up to the age of sixteen.
University of Central Lancashire
Preventing and reducing the impact of school truancy and exclusion at points of transition
£44,990
UK Multi-national
Develop a young people's peer-led package for self-development to overcome barriers to learning, achievement and motivation at school.
Whole Education Ltd
£75,000
London
Support for the strategic development of the WE Schools Network to enable increased practice sharing between schools, increased policy influence and greater sustainability of Whole Education itself.
Grants Awarded since February 2012
Be Together Ltd.
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£46,000
West Midlands
Young people from Stoke-on-Trent will improve their speaking, listening and employability skills and increase their aspirations by investigating North Staffordshire as a place to work and live, and communicating their findings through a public exhibition and drama performance.
Chol Theatre
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£58,000
Yorkshire and Humber
"Imaginary Communities": A pedagogical approach to empower and re-engage children at risk of exclusion from school in Rotherham.
The Communication Trust
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£6,900
North West
Feasibility study to help understand how best to involve, protect and support young people, as well as to further develop our understanding of the potential impact of the 'communication leaders' initiative.
Dandelion Time
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£74,065
South East
Delivery and dissemination of an experiential programme for traumatised children with emotional or behavioural difficulties and facing risk of exclusion or withdrawal from school.
The Hackney Pirates
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£142,544
London
An enterprising out-of-school l learning programme where young people receive one-to-one attention to improve their literacy and creativity by working on real-world creative products.
Radio Regen
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£112,448
UK Wde
A 2-year national partnership project identifying, developing, and spreading innovative practice to increase the number of community radio stations providing high quality skills development programmes (speaking and listening) for 11-19 year olds, and to build a wider awareness of community media opportunities among schools and youth centres.
Grants Awarded since September 2011
Al-Haqq Supplementary School
Supplementary Education
£121,788
Yorkshire and Humber
Employability Project: Supporting young people to continure to further or higher education, employment or training.
Arc Theatre
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£43,400
London
"Finding the Words" is working with young women through film and public speaking, to give them a much-needed platform and voice in gang and youth violence-related issues.
Friendship Society
Supplementary Education
£5,000
London
Journeys of Discovery: Improving Russian language teaching/learning by linking three supplementary schools with a mainstream primary and secondary school.
Futureversity
£146,500
London
Support for core staff costs and staff development.
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£108,948
North East
A 3 year programme to develop the speaking and listening skills of young people with learning disabilities and / or difficulties in Gateshead, within the context of meaningful work experience with local employers.
People and Planet
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£75,303
UK Wide
Raise awareness and develop speaking and listening skills and confidence of students in FE colleges to enable them to take action to achieve positive change locally and beyond.
Playing for Success Southwest
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£9,000
South West
Feasibility study and partnership building to develop a speaking and listening initiative across study support centres linked to sports clubs.
The Salmon Youth Centre
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£70,826
London
Piloting a replicable media training and work experience programme within a South London Youth Centre, focused on developing speaking and listening skills.
Sound Art Radio
£68,900
South West
Core staff and consultancy support to facilitate development of a revised business model.
Studio Schools Trust
£120,000
UK Wide
Core organisational support as the Trust demonstrates the Studio School model in the first 20-30 schools/colleges.
Time for Families
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£90,000
UK Wide
Building Bridges: Developing the speaking and listening skills of young people in prison in England and Wales.
21st Century Learning Alliance
£10,000
UK Wide
Support for teaching fellowships for 2011-12.
Grants Awarded since July 2011
Forest Bus
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£46,512
South East
The Gypsy Traveller Achievement Project is an intervention programme for families to work together to overcome negative issues which impact on their ability to live a more rewarding life.
Inclusion Trust
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£80,000
England Multi-region
Bridging the Gap: The intergenerational use of social networking to simultaneously develop speaking and listening skills in young people and ICT empowerment in the aged.
Institute for Public Policy Research
England Multi-region
£41,600
Narrowing the Gap: A publication bringing together leading educationalists to contribute ideas for narrowing the attainment gap, producing a set of innovative policy proposals that are workable in the current context and reviewed by a 'practitioner panel' of school leaders.
Language Sheffield / King Edward VII school
Supplementary Education
£135,000
Yorkshire & Humber
A three year project to raise the attainment of bilingual pupils by enabling mainstream and supplementary schools to develop partnerships to support pupils' language learning.
One True Voice
£5,106
Developing and testing a 16-week model of sex and relationships education for 40 young women (13-20) within Islington's Somali community.
Openstorytellers
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£90,000
South West
Storysharing: A three year intervention programme to develop the ability of young people with complex communication needs associated in the main with severe and profound learning difficulties to construct and share personal narratives and to use these to improve their participation in democratic processes.
Red Balloon Learner Centre Group
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£85,000
UK wide
A two year pilot of a virtual school - 'Red Balloon of the Air' - to enable Red Balloon's exemplary recovery programme for severely bullied (and self-excluding) young people to reach more young people and prove its viability.
Somali and Somaliland London Community
Supplementary Education
£64,242
London
Supplementary schools generally use traditional, didactic teaching methodology. SSLC wishes to adopt a more mainstream UK approach using activity-based learning driven by the pupils.
The Child-to-Child Trust
£10,000
Piloting the Child-to-Child participatory approach in school to help empower and integrate refugee and asylum seeking young people.
The Forgiveness Project
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£30,155
UK wide
To produce a dynamic, multi-media, cross-curricular educational resource that explores young people's own understanding of and stories about conflict and reconciliation.
The Traditional Arts Foundation
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£26,670
West Midlands
A one-year pilot to systematically trial a progression route of storytelling-led speaking and listening training and opportunities for young people aged 13-19 in three schools and one community setting across the Midlands.
Grants Awarded since May 2011
Bilingual Learning and Teaching Association
Supplementary Education
£86,096
Yorkshire & Humber
Promoting appropriate bilingual support in mainstream settings for children with English as an additional language and engaging family members in supporting this at home and in the classroom.
Development Education Centre (South Yorkshire)
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£107,948
Yorkshire & Humber
Building Communities Through Dialogue will reduce the incidence of truancy and behavioural problems at transition from primary to secondary school by strengthening young people's ability and confidence to communicate constructively with people from different backgrounds to their own.
FOCUS Charity Limited
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£105,000
East Midlands
Explore Leadership has been created for young people to empower their peers to identify, plan and deliver projects which directly benefit their local community.
National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy
Add to the learning - preventing school truancy and exclusion
£58,500
UK Wide
Champions for Childhood Epilepsy aims to reduce exclusion, stigmatisation, misunderstanding and poor management of children with epilepsy in mainstream schools by training 'epilepsy champions' to affect change.
Somali Community Parents Association
Supplementary Education
£129,670
East Midlands
Two year pilot of a year-long programme to support Somali young people in developing their speaking and listening skills and carrying out their own real-world projects to help tackle key issues within their local communities.
Speakers' Corner Trust
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£74,500
UK Wide
Expressing Citizenship will help young people learn the techniques of self expression, building common cause and influencing others to play a fuller role in civic society, and disseminate resources nationally.
Young Person's Advisory Service
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£78,443
North West
Talk Don't Walk: YPAS Peer Supporters develop communication skills of pre\excluded young people, to facilitate community discussion groups, to improve relationships in school and at home, preventing exclusion.
Youth Clubs Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Developing speaking and listening skills for 11-19 year olds
£82,500
South East
To set up a project where young CAT mark assessors can gain the skills necessary to train other young people as assessors.
