Aims/Priorities: Impetus is seeking to partner with one non-profit organisation:
- Working to improve school attainment outcomes for students (age 7-18) from disadvantaged backgrounds in mainstream schools.
- Committed to supporting these young people to secure the expected standard in their SATs and/or GCSE Grade 4 in English and/or maths.
- With an ambition to grow their impact using meaningful, benchmarked data.
Who can apply? To be eligible, organisation must:
- Be a UK-registered charity, social enterprise or non-profit organisation.
- Be dedicated to improving attainment outcomes. They might also be working in other areas like wellbeing, physical/mental health, violence reduction but their attainment work should represent the majority of their work with young people.
- Have a minimum turnover of £650,000, based on last audited/examined accounts.
- Have a minimum of 10 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff.
Organisations must be committed to improving outcomes for children and young people in at least one of the below categories, and managing and refining their programme to achieve these outcomes:
- Expected standard in reading SATs
- Expected standard in maths SATs
- Grade 4+ GCSE English
- Grade 4+ GCSE maths
Grant Amount: £100,000 in core, unrestricted funding for an initial period of one year (with potential for Impetus to become a longer-term funder)
Application Process: Applicants must first complete the online eligibility checker form on the Impetus website.
Eligible organisations will be invited to complete the application form.
Shortlisted applicants (around 7 to 10 organisations) will be contacted by 16 May to arrange an interview.
This will be followed by a site visit.
Decisions will be made by 22 October 2025.
A webinar will be held on 1 April 2025 (14:00). Registration is required.
Deadline: Thursday 17 April 2025 (23:59)
Contact Information: attainment@impetus.org.uk or 07774 437 701
Website: Grant round: School Attainment