Education Endowment Foundation
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is an independent charity dedicated to raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils in English primary and secondary schools.
Founded by the education charity the Sutton Trust, in partnership with Impetus Trust, the EEF is funded by a £125m grant from the Department for Education. With investment and fundraising income, the EEF hopes to award as much as £200m over the 15-year life of the Fund.
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) exists to fund, develop and evaluate cost effective and replicable projects which address educational disadvantage. In the first instance they expect to fund projects run by schools and other not for profit organisations which fit within one of four broad approaches:
- Testing and incubating new ideas which have a proof of concept
- Bringing initiatives from other contexts to EEF target students and schools (this could include, for example, programmes from overseas or from the independent sector)
- Scaling up initiatives which have been proven to work on a modest scale
- Developing projects with potential that have not, to date, been delivered or evaluated effectively
The EEF is not intended to replace existing sources of funding or to enable organisations and schools to continue with core or well-established programmes: EEF funds are intended to incubate new ideas or to significantly advance existing projects or organisations. Applications must seek to raise educational attainment directly, or to affect a tangible outcome that has a clear link to attainment.
For further information please see Education Endowment Foundation websitehere. The deadline for applications is 27th January 2012. If you would like assistance in completing your application then please do call our Fundraising Consultants on 01394 610581, who will be more than happy to help.
