This grant will enable wider understanding of how to support education professionals providing pastoral support to children and young people.

What we’re funding: Our funding will go towards the salary costs of a Head of Impact and Influence. They will deliver an online community platform for teachers to connect and share best practice, produce media resources for teachers, work in partnership with Teach First to develop a national network of senior leaders, and facilitate training days to increase teachers’ capacity to support their pupils. Our funding will contribute to the improved practice of educational professionals working with young people.

Why we’re funding: Jamie’s Farm delivers a powerful and proven programme to improve mental wellbeing, behaviour, engagement with education and social and emotional skills for disadvantaged children. Within a context in which teachers and school leaders are reporting difficulties in managing increasingly challenging behaviour, it works closely with schools and organisations to target children who are not thriving in school, employing a collaborative approach, and actively sharing its learnings beyond its farms and into the classroom.

Our funding of core costs will enable Delight to expand its arts-based learning programmes for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with additional learning needs.

What we’re funding: The Delight vision is for every child to have an equal opportunity to thrive during their school years and beyond. Our funding of core costs will allow for an expansion of its arts-based learning programmes. These support children from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with additional learning needs to experience improved mental wellbeing and confidence, explore their creativity, and engage better in learning.

Why we’re funding: Delight is a collaborative charity that has developed guiding principles to ensure the schools and arts partners it works with share its values and are committed to delivering a high-value arts programme. It performs exceptional work in the arts education sector, and hopes to create a longer-term legacy of arts within schools, that is not wholly reliant on its programmes, suggesting potential for wider application.