Alice McCosh Trust
Grants related to natural history or the environment. This could include school field trips or the development of new teaching materials.
Alpkit Foundation
Small grants for projects to encourage outdoor activities
Amory – Viscount Amory’s Charitable Trust
A Devon charitable trust which makes grants to benefit the people of Devon including young people and projects to advance education.
Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust
To help disadvantaged young people to take up opportunities to develop an existing interest in the great outdoors and outdoor activities.
Armed Forces Covenant Trust
Grant programmes to support armed forces families and communities including an Early Years programme
Armourers & Brasiers’ Company: Support for Science in Schools
Grants can be used to purchase science equipment, run science enrichment projects or enable students to participate in science events and competitions
Arts Council England: National Lottery Project Grants
For projects that directly create and deliver high-quality creative and cultural activity and content. Public engagement is important.
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Grants for the care and relief of those affected by learning disabilities. Grants for schools can only be made for extra-curricular activities.
BBC Children in Need
Special schools can apply for grants for projects that will make a difference to the lives of children and young people facing disadvantage
Birkdale Trust for Hearing Impaired
For projects to advance the education of children and young people, particularly those with a hearing impairment
Bluespark Foundation
For projects to improve the education and development of children and young people particularly through activities to build self-confidence, team working skills and future employability.
British Ecological Society – Outreach Grants
For projects that promote ecological science to a wide audience. Applications from schools are welcome, but projects must involve significant outreach beyond schools.
British Science Association – Crest Awards Engage Grants
Crest Awards enable students (aged 5-19 years) to engage in a STEM-related project. Schools can apply for an Engage Grant to help run a Crest Awards scheme.
British Science Week – Kickstart Fund for Schools
A grant of £400 to enable schools in challenging circumstances to organise and host events during British Science Week (7-16 March 2025) in order to widen access to science, engineering and technology.
Childcare Expansion Capital Grant
Schools can apply for capital funding to enable them to create more wraparound care places through breakfast clubs and after-school clubs
Children’s Alliance
For initiatives that give disadvantaged children safe access to water-play and swimming for the benefit of their physical and mental wellbeing
Classical Association
Grants to support the teaching and learning of classical subjects and to increase access and widen participation in classics
Clinton – Lord Clinton’s Charitable Trust
Email: mail@clintondevon.com or Tel: 01392 443881
The trust makes small grants for charitable purposes. Schools in North and East Devon and special schools can apply for small grants.
Daiwa Foundation Awards
For innovative, collaborative projects between institutions/organisations based in the UK and Japan that produce tangible long-term outcomes.
Education Endowment Foundation
Funding to develop and evaluate literacy and numeracy programmes in order to determine what works in improving attainment levels. The next funding round will focus on: Secondary Maths; and Writing in Key Stages 1 to 4.
Everyday Energy Competition
A competition for children to promote energy saving habits in their communities. Apply by 25 April 2025
Football Foundation
Grants for improvements to football pitches and facilities. Schools can apply if they provide facilities for the community.
Garfield Weston Foundation
Grants to support education can be given for local projects such as reading schemes and after-school clubs. Schools that are either exempt under Charity Commission guidelines or are registered charities can apply.
Gibbons Family Trust
To assist children and young people under the age of 25 that live in Devon (with a preference for East Devon) including education, training and recreation
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
For activities that promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the UK and Japan, including the teaching of Japanese language and culture
Happy Days Children’s Charity
SEN schools can apply for grants towards day trips, theatre visits and group activity holidays for young people aged 3 to 17 with additional needs.
Hargreaves Foundation
Projects to support young people who are under 18 and living with a mental health condition, disability, or growing up in poverty. This can include grants to help disadvantaged or disabled pupils to participate in extra-curricular school activities.
Heathcoat Trust
Email: heathcoattrust@heathcoat.co.uk or Tel: 01884 244296
Most grants are for organisations in Tiverton and its surrounds – the priorities include education and training. Small grants may be awarded to schools in Mid Devon.
Henry Smith Charity: Holiday Grants for Children
To provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. Priority is given to the most deprived areas.
Idverde Community Investment Fund
A contribution of £1,000 towards projects that make an improvement to a public open space that is freely accessible to the public. Funds are only awarded once applicants have secured crowdfunding via Spacehive.
Jerusalem Trust: Small Grants to Schools
Grants of up to £600 to purchase Christianity resources
for use in RE lessons
Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Grants
Grants of £1,000 for schools to set up a breakfast club
Learning through Landscapes: Local School Nature Grants
Fully-funded staff training and £500 of outdoor-learning equipment for schools and early-years settings.
Linnean Society: Our Local Nature
Schools can apply for up to £1,000 to increase access to natural spaces and improve understanding of the local biodiversity
LoveReading4Kids Funding for Schools
Schools can apply for up to £5,000 to buy books, with a specific focus on reading for pleasure.
Moto Foundation Community Grants
Small grants for community projects within 15 miles of Moto service stations (M5 junctions at Exeter, Cullompton and Tiverton; A38 at Saltash)
Music for All
For activities that improve access to music-making, including the purchase of instruments. Schools can also apply for up to £5,000 from the Harris Foundation Schools Progression Award to enhance and expand their music provision.
National Education Nature Park
Includes an overview of grants and funding available to schools for nature education activities
National Lottery Awards for All
Grants up to £10,000 for projects that bring people together, improve places, support vulnerable people and help people to reach their potential. Schools can apply as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around the school.
National Lottery Community Fund: Climate Action – Our Shared Future
Large grants for organisations working in a formal partnership to help people to engage in activities to address climate change. Projects must benefit the wider community and activities involving schools need to happen outside of normal teaching hours.
National Lottery Community Fund: Partnerships
For organisations working in partnership to help their community to thrive.
National Lottery Community Fund: Reaching Communities
For projects that help people to make positive changes in their community. Schools can apply for revenue and capital funding to bring about improved health and wellbeing, participation and inclusion, skills and life chances for the school community.
NextEnergy Solar Impact Fund
Includes funding for skills development and educational initiatives such as STEM projects.
Nineveh Charitable Trust
For projects relating to health, welfare and education, particularly those that promote a better understanding of the countryside. Schools have received funding from the trust for outdoor activities, gardens and wildlife areas.
Norman Family Charitable Trust
A local trust that prioritises funding for local state schools, particularly in East Devon and Exeter. Grants can be made for specific projects that will directly benefit the children of that school.
Ogden Trust
Secondary schools can apply for a grant to support the teaching and learning of physics.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Teacher Development Fund
Support for sustainable arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in primary schools
Persimmon Community Champions
Donations of up to £6,000 for projects that make a difference in local communities where Persimmon has a presence
Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme
Grants for public sector bodies – including maintained schools – to fund heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency measures.
Roman Society
Schools can apply for grants of £50 to £600 to help promote the teaching of Latin and Roman studies
Royal Society: Partnership Grants
Grants up to £3,000 for schools to run investigative STEM projects in partnership with STEM professionals from academia or industry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Outreach Grants
For chemistry-based engagement activities that demonstrate career opportunities, develop employability skills and enrich chemistry
education
Sea-Changers
Primary and secondary schools can apply for grants for marine conservation activities in the UK.
South West Water Community Grants
Small grants for projects that benefit the community and the environment, including projects that help to save water
Sport England: Movement Fund
Grants up to £15,000 for projects that get more people involved in sports and physical activity. Sport England funding cannot be used towards activities that form part of the school curriculum.
Stobart Sustainability Fund
For projects that tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions or that protect and enhance the environment
Tesco Stronger Starts
Schools can apply for grants up to £1,500 to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people’s mental and physical wellbeing. Tesco customers vote in-store for their favourite local project.
Turing Scheme
The UK international education programme. Schools can send pupils to take part in placements abroad. Apply by 14 March 2025.
UK-German Connection
Grants for joint activities, partnerships and cultural exchanges between schools and youth groups in the UK and Germany
Universal Music UK Sound Foundation
Grants to support access to music for schools, students, and teachers by supporting the purchase of musical instruments and equipment
Variety: Equipment grants for children
Equipment grants for mobility, independence and social inclusion for children with a recognised disability or long-term health condition. SEND and mainstream schools can apply.
Wolfson Foundation
State-funded secondary schools and sixth form colleges can apply for capital grants to improve the teaching of science, computer science, design & technology, art, languages, music and performing arts.
Special needs schools and colleges can apply for capital grants to help pupils to develop skills which would help them to gain employment or live independently after leaving school or college.
Wooden Spoon Charity
Grants for projects that enhance and support the lives of children and young people who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially
Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Charity
Grants for projects that use IT to support education, inclusion, public understanding or the use of IT by charities.