PLEASE NOTE: At present, we can only consider applications from state-funded secondary schools and educational support centres in Hertfordshire.
Each academic year we intend to award the following grants:
Secondary Minor Awards
- Secondary schools may receive 1 Minor Award in each focus area per academic year (i.e. a maximum of 3 Minor Awards per year, 1 in each focus area).
- Educational support centres may receive 1 Minor Award in any of the secondary focus areas per academic year.
- If a Minor Award application is unsuccessful, schools/ESCs are then free to apply for something else in the same focus area if they wish.
- Our focus areas for secondary schools and Educational Support Centres are: PE, STEM and Learning to Learn.
- Approximately £20,000 will be spread over each academic year and awarded across all three focus areas.
- The maximum bid for any minor award is £1000.
- Minor Awards can be applied for at any time until each term's budget runs out. The budget is then refreshed at the beginning of the following term and applications reopen.
- A running total of the remaining budget for the current term will be shown above the application form.
- Please see our How to Apply for a Grant page for important information on Part-bids and Bids to avoid.
A brilliant scheme that has enabled us to purchase those 'dream' pieces of equipment that we wish we could buy but cannot justify within our own ever diminishing budgets!
- The Bushey Academy, November 2019
Secondary Major Awards
- Please see the Major Award Application Form for this year's awards, deadlines and rules.
- Please see our How to Apply for a Grant page for important information on Part-bids and Bids to avoid.
Other Help for Schools
As we grow, we will also aim to help schools in other ways e.g.:
- building an easy-to-use database of other organisations that support our objectives and focus areas.*
- recruiting organisations and businesses to supply expert visitors to schools and facilitate pupil and teacher visits/placements. Schools will then have access to these contacts.
- Negotiating discounts from suppliers of educational services that fit our focus areas.
You can register interest for all our awards and grant news here
*We don’t specifically endorse any organisation on our links pages but offer the information for teachers to evaluate the resources/suppliers for themselves.