Education & Training Grants & Funding
There are 1660 UK funders offering grants for education & training charities, with typical awards from £100 to £1,000,000.
Education and training grants represent one of the largest categories in UK charitable funding. Funders in this space support everything from early childhood literacy programmes to adult skills retraining, with particular emphasis on closing attainment gaps for disadvantaged learners. Many trusts fund supplementary education — after-school clubs, tutoring, mentoring, and enrichment activities — that complement statutory provision. STEM education, digital literacy, and vocational training have attracted growing funder interest as the UK skills gap continues to widen. Arts education, outdoor learning, and sport-based engagement programmes also receive significant support. Several major foundations focus specifically on higher education access, providing bursaries and scholarships for students from low-income backgrounds. Grant-makers in this area typically value measurable outcomes such as improved attainment, qualification completion rates, and progression into employment. Collaborative projects between schools, colleges, and community organisations are particularly well-regarded.
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- Total Funders
- 1660
- Grant Range
- £100 - £1,000,000
- Open to Applications
- 36%
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Education & Training Funders
157 of 1660 match your filtersChecked against verified programme data for 204 of 1660 funders. 1456 not yet verified are listed below; 47 that don't fit were excluded.
abrdn Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Ideas
The abrdn Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic arm of abrdn plc (formerly Aberdeen Group) and registered in Scotland (SC042597), drives purposeful...
Addison Youth Club
Matching programme: Annual Grant Round (General Fund)
Addison Youth Club is an independent grant-making charity with a founding mission to foster holistic development—physical, intellectual, social, emoti...
Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation
Matching programme: Grants for schools & organisations
Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation is an independent educational grant-making charity with origins in historic endowments from the parishes of Aldgate ...
Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement
Matching programme: Small and Medium Grants
The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement, established in 1977 by John and Elnora Ferguson to honor Allan and Nesta Ferguson, advances world ...
Ampersand Foundation
Matching programme: Annual Grants
The Ampersand Foundation, established in 2011 by philanthropist Jack Kirkland, is a UK grant-awarding trust dedicated to advancing education and publi...
Antonio Carluccio Foundation
Matching programme: Grant Programme
The Antonio Carluccio Foundation, established by the renowned Italian chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio before his death in 2017, carries forwar...
Arts Council of Wales | Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Matching programme: Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Arts Council of Wales (Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru), established by Royal Charter in 1994, is the principal national agency championing the arts across W...
Barking and Dagenham Giving
Matching programme: GROW Fund
Barking and Dagenham Giving is a place-based funder dedicated to tackling deprivation, inequality, and limited opportunity in one of England's most di...
Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Grants Programme (Impact Grants)
The Barratt Redrow Foundation (formerly Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation), established in March 2020 as a Charitable Incorporated Organi...
Berkeley Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Resilience Fund
The Berkeley Charitable Foundation, established in 2011 by the Berkeley Group, is a corporate foundation dedicated to empowering young people and comm...
BGF Foundation
Matching programme: Partnership Grants
The BGF Foundation is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to transforming the lives of disadvantaged young people through patient, flexible...
Big Change Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Spark Awards
Big Change Charitable Trust, founded in 2012 by Holly and Sam Branson, Princess Beatrice, and four friends in response to the London riots, drives sys...
Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Matching programme: Gaelic Plans Fund – Projects Stream 2026/27
Bòrd na Gàidhlig, established by the Scottish Parliament under the 2005 Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act as an executive non-departmental public body, l...
British Fashion Council Foundation
Matching programme: London Fashion Showcasing Fund
The British Fashion Council Foundation, a registered charity (1185152) established in 2019 as the philanthropic arm of the British Fashion Council, dr...
British Film Institute
Matching programme: BFI and Film4 Future Takes
The British Film Institute, established by Royal Charter in 1933, leads UK efforts to advance film, television, and moving image culture through prese...
Building and Civil Engineering Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Construction Employability Award
The Building and Civil Engineering Charitable Trust (B&CE’s Charitable Trust), established in 1991 by B&CE, is dedicated to enhancing the lives of UK ...
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
Matching programme: Investing in Community Health Fund
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation (CCF), established in December 2003, is an independent local charity dedicated to enhancing quality of life across...
Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Main Grant Programme
The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust embodies Dame Catherine Cookson's vision to transform lives in North East England communities through enduring ...
Cayo Foundation
Matching programme: General Grants
The Cayo Foundation is a UK-based discretionary grant-making trust established on 29 November 1999, dedicated to benefiting registered charities under...
Charterhouse-in-Southwark
Matching programme: Multi-Year Grant Programme
Charterhouse-in-Southwark is an independent endowed grant-making trust established in 1885, rooted in the historic Charterhouse foundation in Clerkenw...
Chester Bluecoat Charity
Matching programme: Grants Programme
The Chester Bluecoat Charity is an historic grant-maker with roots over 800 years old, evolving through mergers since 1837 and rebranded in 2020 from ...
Chrysalis Trust
Matching programme: Chrysalis Trust Grants
The Chrysalis Trust, a UK grant-making charity established in 2009 by the Evans family, tackles poverty, disability, and barriers to shelter, educatio...
Clan Trust Limited
Matching programme: Clan Trust Scholarship
Clan Trust Limited is an independent charitable trust based in Norfolk, established in the 1960s by a local farmer who endowed it with his farm, land,...
Clive Richards Foundation
Matching programme: Bursary Scheme
The Clive Richards Foundation, established in 1986 by entrepreneur Clive Richards and his wife Sylvia (renamed in Clive's honour after his 2021 passin...
Clore Duffield Foundation
Matching programme: Clore Learning Spaces – Schools Connect Programme
The Clore Duffield Foundation, born from the merger of visionary philanthropic legacies, drives transformative opportunities through excellence, innov...
Coles-Medlock Foundation
Matching programme: Main Grant Programme
The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a family-run grant-making charity established by Bath-based philanthropists David and Jacky Medlock to alleviate pover...
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Brighter Futures
The Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust, an independent grant-making charity founded in 1969 by Sir James Colyer-Fergusson, is dedicated to improving li...
Community Foundation for Leeds
Matching programme: The Lightbulb Fund
Community Foundation for Leeds, established in 2002, is the region's leading independent funder, having distributed over £70 million through 8,000+ gr...
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland
Matching programme: Community Solutions to Housing and Homelessness programme
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, established in 1979 as the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust, is an independent grant-making body with o...
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire
Matching programme: Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire Grants
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is an independent grantmaker dedicated to strengthening local communities through targeted phila...
Cornwall Community Development Limited
Matching programme: ACRE Village Hall Capital Grants
Cornwall Community Development Limited, operating as Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC), was established in 2001 from the Cornwall Rural Communit...
Cumbria Community Foundation
Matching programme: Northern Cancer Alliance Prehabilitation Fund
Cumbria Community Foundation, established in 1999, is an independent UK community foundation dedicated to tackling poverty, enhancing quality of life,...
Dartington Cattle Breeding Trust
Matching programme: Capital Grant Scheme
The Dartington Cattle Breeding Trust, established in 1948 as the Dartington Hall Cattle Breeding Centre by Leonard Elmhirst and Sir George Hayter-Hame...
David Brownlow Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Large Grants Programme
The David Brownlow Charitable Foundation drives positive social change by enhancing lives of disadvantaged individuals and communities through persona...
Department for Business and Trade
Matching programme: Invest to Grow
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), established in 2023, drives UK economic growth by making the nation the world's best place for business, ...
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Matching programme: FleX Competition (Flexibility Exchange Demonstrator)
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), established in 2016 through merger of business innovation and energy climate funct...
Department for Education
Matching programme: Children's Social Care Improvement Teams (CIT)
The Department for Education (DfE) is a UK ministerial department with a mission to elevate educational standards, safeguard children, boost social mo...
Drapers Charitable Fund
Matching programme: Drapers' Charitable Fund
The Drapers Charitable Fund, administered by the historic Worshipful Company of Drapers founded in 1364 by woollen cloth merchants, upholds a mission ...
East End Community Foundation
Matching programme: Canary Wharf Group Community Grant Programme
East End Community Foundation is an independent grantmaker dedicated to tackling entrenched poverty, inequality, and social exclusion in East London's...
Ed De Nunzio Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Ed De Nunzio Charitable Trust Grants
The Ed De Nunzio Charitable Trust, established in memory of Edward De Nunzio—a York teenager who tragically died in 2011 at age 18—honours his passion...
Education Endowment Foundation
Matching programme: EEF Grant Funding Rounds
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), established in 2011 by the Sutton Trust and Impetus Trust with £125 million from the Department for Educatio...
Educational Opportunity Foundation
Matching programme: Main Fund - International Projects
The Educational Opportunity Foundation, tracing origins to 1808, exists to enhance life chances worldwide through transformative educational opportuni...
Enthuse Charitable Trust
Matching programme: ENTHUSE Partnerships
Enthuse Charitable Trust, established in 2008 and based at the National STEM Learning Centre in York (charity number 1126965), is dedicated to advanci...
Eric Wright Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Community Grants
The Eric Wright Charitable Trust embodies a founding vision of responsible business stewardship channeling construction industry profits into perpetua...
Ernest Cook Trust
Matching programme: Outdoor Learning Leader Grant
The Ernest Cook Trust, founded in 1952 by Ernest Cook—grandson of travel pioneer Thomas Cook—is a leading UK educational charity with over 9,000 hecta...
Fishmongers' Company's Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Philanthropy & Grants Programme
The Fishmongers' Company's Charitable Trust embodies centuries-old traditions of civic duty, stewardship, and fellowship, with a founding mission to a...
Forbes Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Main Support
The Forbes Charitable Foundation is a specialist UK grantmaker dedicated exclusively to enhancing the lives of adults with learning disabilities, by f...
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Matching programme: New Frontiers of Conflict Research 2026
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), established in September 2020 through the merger of the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ...
Forever Notts
Matching programme: J N Derbyshire Trust
Forever Notts, formerly Nottinghamshire Community Foundation and established in 1997 as an independent registered charity, serves as a vital broker fo...
Foundation of Saint Matthias
Matching programme: Organisation Grants
The Foundation of Saint Matthias advances Church of England-aligned education as mission, embodying the five marks of mission: proclaiming Christian f...
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Tips for Applying to Education & Training Funders
Education funders expect clear, measurable learning outcomes in your application. Define specific targets such as reading age improvements, qualification attainment rates, or skills acquisition benchmarks, and explain how you will track progress against them. Reference any quality marks, Ofsted ratings, or accreditation your organisation holds — these signal credibility and rigour to grant-makers. Present your cost-per-learner or cost-per-outcome figures to demonstrate value for money, as education funders are particularly focused on efficient use of resources. Show clear progression routes for participants: how does your programme connect to the next stage of their learning or employment journey rather than operating in isolation? If your training leads to recognised qualifications or certifications, highlight this prominently. Demonstrate alignment with national curriculum standards or sector-specific frameworks where relevant, and explain how your approach fills gaps that mainstream provision does not address. Strong applications show evidence of what works — reference pilot data, external evaluations, or published research that supports your methodology. Include partnerships with schools, colleges, employers, or sector bodies that validate your approach and create pathways for learners beyond your programme.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Education & Training Grants
What grants are available for education & training charities in the UK?
There are 1660+ UK funders offering grants for education & training charities. These range from small community grants under £5,000 to large multi-year funding programmes exceeding £100,000. Use Fundermatcher to find the best match for your organisation.
How much funding can education & training organisations get?
Grant amounts for education & training charities vary widely depending on the funder and project. Typical grants range from £1,000 to over £100,000. Many funders offer multi-year funding for established organisations with a strong track record.
How do I apply for education & training grants?
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