Top Tips for Successful Applications
The following tips should help you choose a project write an application that meets our criteria for both our Minor and Major Awards in both the primary and secondary sectors. Good Luck!
Top 5 Feedback Points from the 2025 Primary Major Award Applications
(“Project” refers to whatever products, training, workshops etc you are applying for)
- Read all the website information, especially as regards the projects we consider (i.e. benefitting learning primarily in our focus National Curriculum subjects and/or learning to learn techniques).
- We give credit for our own judgement on the learning benefits of projects but we are not experts in all subjects. Therefore, a lot of weight is given to the applicant’s clear explanations of all the learning benefits their project will bestow to their particular body of students and explain how/why the items bid for will bestow these benefits. This also gives an indication of how effectively the school will use the equipment, training etc.
- Extra credit is given if the applicant evidences any stated benefits – this might be from e.g. research findings or school/staff experience of similar/related initiatives. Any research, including provider/supplier claims should be applied to the particular needs of the applicant’s school and not just pasted into the application from a supplier/provider website.
- Credit will be given if applicants address howtheir project will also meet the needs of specified groups of pupils and say how they have identified these needs.
- Contrasting the intended project with your current provision is a good way of emphasising the need for the project and the extra learning benefits it will provide.
New Primary Award: £10,000
New Primary Award: £10,000
We are delighted to announce that EdufundUK is launching a Primary Major Award of £10,000 for Hertfordshire state-funded primary schools this academic year (2024/25).
The existing (and continuing) primary awards will now be renamed Primary Minor Awards to distinguish them from the new award which will run in a very different way. Further details will be emailed to past applicants and school admins and appear on our website, but here is a brief summary:
- There will be 1 award of £10,000 paid to a single state-funded primary school in Hertfordshire.
- Schools may only apply for projects that enhance learning in our three main focus areas: STEM, PE and Learning to Learn.
- There will be an application window, after which, all entries will be judged and the winner announced. For 2025, the application window will run from 24/2/2025 until 22/4/2025 (5 pm).
As noted, more details and the application form will be posted on our website. If you have any questions, please email gareth@edufunduk.org.