Walcot Educational Foundation grants

Overview

Walcot Educational Foundation is a local foundation focused on the prevention or relief of poverty and education and training, primarily in Lambeth, London. In its latest year it gave around £2m to organisations, with a median grant of £10,000 across 629 recorded grants up to 2023. Separately, its Educational Grants for Individuals programme gives eligible students £1,800 a year for up to three years, along with smaller grants for vocational courses and a discretionary childcare top-up.

What they fund

Walcot Educational Foundation funds the prevention or relief of poverty and education and training, both for organisations and through grants to individual students.

Who and where

It is a local foundation focused on Lambeth, London, funding other charities and voluntary bodies alongside individual student applicants.

Who they help

Where they fund

What Walcot Educational Foundation says in its own guidance

Quoted directly from the funder’s own website, with a link to the page each quote came from. Always the most current word is theirs — check the source before you apply.

What a typical grant looks like

Recent grants

• Universify EducationThe programme includes two university residentials and monthly 1:1 coaching for low-income Lambeth resident pupils, starting towards the end of Year 10 and working with them through to the end of Year 11. The aim is that students leave the programme with the skills, knowledge, grades, and self-belief to achieve their potential and move out of disadvantage; they can make more informed decisions about their future and are equipped with the grades to fulfil these decisions. The project will partner with Lambeths secondary schools for a year-long programme that will include a week-long summer residential at Jesus College, University of Oxford, followed by a Spring residential, also at Jesus College, which will focus on GCSE revision. Participants will receive online, monthly, one-to-one coaching with trained Universify volunteers, starting on the summer programme and running up to the completion of their GCSEs in July. Volunteers are current or recent university graduates. The Lambeth schools currently applying to the programme on behalf of students are Trinity Academy, Lambeth Academy, The Norwood School and St Martins-in-the-Fields High School.£8,400March 2023
• Reay Primary SchoolThe children will be spending their first time away as a class ( we normally have other away trips but they haven't happened due to covid). Being awy together builds lasting relationships and big memories. The Year 6 trips gets them ready for Secondary and builds their independence. The children will abseil Jacob's ladder, raft building, trapeze. building shelters, story telling around a campfire.£1,700March 2023
• Streatham Wells Primary SchoolYear 6 attend a residential, week-long trip in March of their last year at primary school. This trip provides the opportunity for children to build: confidence, emotional wellbeing, improved relationships, resilience, confidence in learning and an understanding of the natural environment. Outward Bound uses the natural environment to stretch pupils over the five days. Challenges include gorge walking, rock climbing, cutter sailing and canoeing. All are fun, adventurous and help to embed learning. This provides cultural capital for children, many of which have never left London. The trip is costly to families, particularly those from low income families and pupils receiving free school meals. No child eligible to participate will be left behind because of inability to pay. We are applying to match fund the cost of the trip with a grant form Walcot Foundation. Total cost per child is £356 - we are applying for £178/pupil premium family.£1,068March 2023
• Bright CentresBright Centres (set up in 2008) is based in North Kennington and provides alternative education placements, homework clubs and careers advice, predominantly (but not exclusively) for the Somali community. This project has two main elements: ·          Maths/English tutoring for KS2 and KS4 pupils provided by a mix of paid tutors and volunteers. ·          Family liaison/support ? provide casework/support with families to deal with housing issues (such as disrepair and overcrowding) and cost-of-living crisis. This would be through helping them translate issues and write letters to relevant council or authorities and support the families to connect into other services (e.g. advice agencies)£30,000March 2023
• High Trees Community Development TrustHigh Trees is a well-established community centre that provides employment advice, training, youth provision and community organising. Lambeth Peer Action Collective is a youth-led project aimed at better understanding the key contributors to youth-violence in Lambeth and supporting individuals & institutions to come together to take action on identified themes in order to make Lambeth a safer place for young people. This is run by High Trees in partnership with seven other local organisations. LPAC is divided into 3 areas of work: research, campaign, action. Funding has been provided over the past 18 months by the Youth Endowment fund to kick-start this work, which will come to an end in March 2023. This funding would enable the the LPAC team take the project to the next phase of its work, implementing the findings & manifesto more widely in order to create tangible long-lasting change.£30,000March 2023
• Doorstep LibraryDoorstep Library volunteers work with families of children aged 0-11, spending 20 minutes per week for up to two years, reading with children on their doorstep or in their homes. They aim to help children develop a love of reading, empowering families to become involved in their child?s reading and encouraging families to connect with their communities. This project will encourage children on estates in Tulse Hill, Loughborough and St Martins to embrace reading for pleasure, foster positive home learning environments and connect isolated families to their community through weekly visits with volunteers. Volunteers offer signposting to external services.£30,000March 2023

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Their charitable objects

As registered with the Charity Commission (their formal purposes):

The income shall be used for the purposes of rebuilding and improving the property of the foundation, maintenance of the school premises and other educational benefits (see scheme dated 6 february 1991 for full details).

How to approach them

Start with the official sources — they’re always more current than any directory, including this one.

Common questions