Grant funding to support schools to meet the needs of children with SEND

Are you a vibrant collaboration of primary, early years or special schools/settings committed to action-led research and innovation to improve outcomes for children? Are you in an area of multiple-deprivation and challenge?

The Laurel Trust, a relatively new educational charity, offers supportive funding for schools and academies in areas of deprivation and challenge to enable research and innovative developments linked to school improvement.

The Trust has just completed a successful pilot year with thirteen imaginative projects in diverse geographical areas from Blackpool to Kings Lynn to the East Sussex coast. Projects are being disseminated locally and hopefully regionally to be of wider benefit to other schools - with one of the research projects in the north being used as a model for further innovation in three large areas including Belfast. In 2018-19, The Laurel Trust will be funding further projects that will focus on children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The latest application round opened at the end of April and closes at 5pm on 25th May 2018. Applications in this round should be focused explicitly on meeting the needs of children, removing barriers to learning and building capacity for future improvement.

More information and guidance on how to apply is available on their website laureltrust.org.uk or on the attached flyer. You can also view two case studies from the pilot:

Forest Way Teaching School Alliance Case Study

Pupil Referral Unit in Blackpool Case Study