Educational Opportunity Foundation: Main Fund - UK

Overview

Educational Opportunity Foundation supports work that aims to improve the educational outcomes and life chances of care experienced young people (under the age of 25 and living in the UK).

Funding is available for one to three years. They will fund between £30,000 to £90,000 per project (maximum £30,000 per year for multi year projects). Funding is available for new or pilot projects, or projects which have started in the past 12 months.

Annual grant payments cannot exceed 50% of an organisation’s 3-year average income. Educational Opportunity Foundation will fund between 25% to 100% of the total project costs, but will give preference to projects with some degree of matched funding.

They will fund projects which:

Improve educational outcomes

Including the support of care experienced young people to attend and engage in mainstream school life, improving access to out of school support and improving education professionals understanding of their needs.

Improve life chances

Including improving the support for care experienced young people (aged 16-24) to access further education, employment or training opportunities and improving support for them to remain engaged with these opportunities.

Who can apply:

• UK registered charities with an income normally between £25,000 and £2.5 million.
• Charities must be financially sound and registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
• Charities must have at least three years of continuous accounts submitted to the relevant UK Charity Commission or Regulator.
• Organisations should be directly involved in the provision of the project activities. They do not fund organisations whose primary purpose is fundraising.