The Educational Opportunity Foundation – Main Fund Programme

The Educational Opportunity Foundation seeks to enhance the lives of people throughout the world by promoting the advancement of opportunity for education, that is the physical, intellectual, moral, religious and spiritual development of the whole person regardless of ethnicity, nationality or religious belief. It makes grants for educational projects principally to organisations and institutions.

The Educational Opportunity Foundation’s Main Fund programme supports charitable organisations working to improve access to education or the quality of education for children and young people under the age of 25, both in the UK and internationally. It awards approximately £900,000 in new grants every year.

The Foundation 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. Funding is available for 1-3 years.

For UK based projects, the Educational Opportunity Foundation will only consider applications that are specifically targeted towards care experienced young people. Projects must be interventions designed to improve their educational outcomes and life chances.

Funding is available for:

• Improving 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, and
• Improving 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.