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    We got a £75,000 grant to create a community hub

    How a London school secured funding to convert a neglected annexe into a community hub

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    Meet the grant provider: The Co-operative Bank

    Common interests and shared values mean PTAs are among those benefiting from The Co-operative Bank’s Customer Donation Fund, discovers Zena Alli

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    Our community appeals helped us leverage funding for food tech

    Showing that you have the backing of your school community in securing match funding or donations will stand you in good stead with grant givers, says Sharon Noble

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    School fundraising: We’ve received hundreds of free books

    How one school teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to encourage Reading for Pleasure in its students

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    School grants: Funding libraries and books

    How one school was granted £15,000 for their library, plus we take a look at a reading scheme

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    School gardens: Grow your own orchard

    Veolia Orchard offers free fruit trees to schools so that pupils can plant and nurture young saplings to enhance their environment and grow food. Here, we speak to two participating schools

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    Grants for London schools: John Lyon’s Charity increases funding

    New opportunities for schools in north and west London to get grants for cultural, trips and holiday enrichment

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    Meet the grants provider: Music for All

    Find out more about the charity’s work to support music in schools

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    Pupil wellbeing: Support for mental health in schools

    Joe’s Buddy Line offers resources to promote pupils’ mental health and wellbeing

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    Funding for school trips: We raised £6,000 to fund a trip to the seaside

    ‘Our primary used the FundEd grants database to secure funding towards our school trip’

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    School trip funding: We received a £4,800 grant to take pupils to a West End show

    London headteacher Ruby Nasser received funding from the John Lyons Charity to take her pupils to the theatre

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    Music grants: We got a grant to buy a set of keyboards

    How the charity Music for All helped Layfield Primary School enrich its music curriculum

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    We won a £5,000 grant to create an outdoor classroom and buy equipment

    Allendale Primary School in Northumberland told us about their success

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    We secured grants for outdoor learning and greening our environment

    Find out how Ann Edwards CofE Primary School in Cirencester secured grants to fund trips focused on outdoor learning

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    Focus on local grants 

    ‘We raised £21,845 from local grants to help improve our playground’

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    Creating a case for support

    How one school secured grants from The Wolfson Foundation

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    Funding a community amphitheatre

    How Downlands Community School worked hard to secure funding for its community amphitheatre

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    Make friends with wildlife

    While not strictly a grant, the Nature Friendly Schools project offers free expert support for outdoor learning

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    One grant leads to another

    When applying for grants, it pays to have a demonstrable plan of action – and it’'s even better if you’ve already acted on that plan

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    Access for all

    Social mobility is stalling, but one charity is helping pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities

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    Gender equality project

    The Leys Primary and Nursery School received £35,000 to set up a gender equality project with schools in Nepal

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    CIF grants: We used experts to secure £3.7million

    A Nottinghamshire MAT achieve its goals thanks to ICS Funding Services

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    Reading Oasis programme

    Nightingale Primary School now has a full library thanks to a £10,000 donation

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    Supermarket grants

    Success with two supermarket grants transformed Stallingborough Primary School’s memorial garden

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    Students visit concentration camp

    An £18,880 grant took students from Birmingham to Bergen-Belsen

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    LGBT+ workshops

    Embracing diversity through LGBT+ workshops

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    Siobhan Dowd Trust

    The Siobhan Dowd Trust helped Moorlands Primary Academy restock its library

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    Biodome project

    Severn View Academy received a £10,000 grant to install a biodome and enhance outdoor learning

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    The #iwill Fund

    £3,600 from the #iwill Fund enabled All Saints’ CofE Primary School to run an intergenerational project

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    Spaces that work

    The Wolfson Foundation has updated its grants programme, making it easier to access funding for cutting-edge facilities

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    Meet the funder: Youth Music

    Youth Music is a national charity that invests in music-making projects for children and young people

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    Meet the funder: National Lottery Heritage Fund

    The National Lottery Heritage Fund has changed its name and streamlined its grants programme

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    Meet the funder: Foyle Foundation

    Can your library improvements be funded by the Foyle Schools Library Programme?

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    Meet the funder: Groundwork

    Groundwork’s grant schemes are helping communities improve their outdoor space

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    Meet the funder: Siobhan Dowd Trust

    The Siobhan Dowd Trust aims to support children and young people whose access to books and stories has been deprived

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    Meet the funder: Awards for All

    Find out more about one of the most prominent funders of school projects

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    Meet the funder: The Royal Society

    The Royal Society has awarded over £1.3m to STEM projects – find out what makes a good application

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    Meet the funder: Wolfson Foundation

    The Wolfson Foundation’s Chief Executive explains how The Secondary Education Programme supports new builds, refurbishments or equipment projects related to science, information or communications technology.

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