Educational Opportunity Foundation awards approximately £700,000 in new grants every year for projects which maximise educational opportunity for children and young people under the age of 25 in the UK and internationally.
We support work that improves the educational outcomes and life chances of care experienced young people (under the age of 25 and living in the UK).
We will fund between £30,000?to?£90,000 per project?(maximum £30,000 per year for multi year projects) for projects which work with either care experienced young people, their carers or education professionals to:
Improve access to educational opportunity – including support for care experienced young people to attend and engage in mainstream school life; increasing the number of education professionals able to understand their needs; equipping carers to understand the education system and support and advocate for the young people in their care, engaging with trauma-informed support; improving access to out of school support and educational activities.
Improve educational outcomes – including enabling care experienced young people to learn in ways that works for them; supporting a broad range of activities that develop confidence and mental health in order to improve educational outcomes including support for carers to encourage learning and raise aspirations.
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.