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EDUCATIONAL VISITS FUNDING AND GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Your guide to the latest funding and grants to support learning beyond the classroom. Bookmark this page and check back regularly for updates. If you are a funder, or you’ve come across other opportunities that could be added to this funding finder, please email details to info@evolveadvice.co.uk so that we can share them with our school community.
EVOLVE Advice funding support for schools
EVOLVE Advice
Application Deadline: 30th June 2024
The Get Out! Grant is a series of £500 grants, awarded by EVOLVE Advice, to support schools with providing educational visits opportunities for children and young people.
Primary / Secondary / England / Wales
Latest grants and funding for learning outside the classroom
Edina Trust
Application Deadline: 14th June 2024
Grants up to £700. Grants can be used for science related educational visits as well as science weeks, science equipment; and improving school grounds for science.
Nursery / Primary / Armagh City / Banbridge / Blackburn / Blackpool / Craigavon / Denbighshire / Liverpool / Manchester / Newport / Torfaen
Alpkit Foundation
Year Round Applications
Alpkit Foundation helps people Go Nice Places Do Good Things. We particularly like to support projects that encourage responsible outdoor activity, have long lasting benefits, introduce new people to get outdoors and demonstrate value for money.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / Nationwide
Arts Council Wales
Year Round Applications
Go and See is a grant that can be used to fund visits to high-quality arts events in galleries, theatres, arts centres and other venues. Events could include visits to performances and exhibitions or visits to experience arts professionals developing and creating their work.
Primary / Secondary / Wales Only
BlueSpark Foundation
Year Round Applications
Grants up to £2,000 and £5,000. BlueSpark Foundation is a registered charity which supports the education and development of children and young people by providing grants for educational, cultural, sporting and other projects.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / Nationwide
City of London Cultural & Creative Learning Fund
Grants are allocated on a first-come first-served basis
School Visits Fund aims to enable children to experience the benefits of learning outside the classroom. If you’re a teacher or group leader planning a trip, you can receive up to £300 towards the cost of a visit to a wide variety of inspiring venues managed by the City Corporation.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / Greater London Only / Pupil Premium 35%
The Country Trust
Year Round Applications
The Country Trust supports better life chances for disadvantaged children through hands-on food, farming and countryside experiences. Our programmes include Farm Discovery Day Visits and Countryside Residentials.
Primary / SEND / England / Wales / Free School Meals
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Year Round Applications
Our Access Without Limits schools funding working with the Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is set to enable more young people living in the most deprived areas in England to access the DofE at school. Eligible schools can apply for funding to support with the following: Licence Fee support, Bronze, Silver and/or Gold Participation Places and Expedition Equipment.
Secondary / SEND / Alternative Provision / England
English Heritage
Free Self-Led Visits
With historical sites across England, there are incredible places to visit on your doorstep - and when you bring your class on an education visit, you can explore for free! Choose from medieval castles, prehistoric sites, monastic ruins and country houses – then plan your day to suit your curriculum needs and the learning level of your group.
Primary / Secondary / Nationwide
Happy Days Children’s Charity
Year Round Applications
You can apply to us for a day trip to a wide variety of destinations, for example the seaside, a theme park or the theatre. You may also apply for a theatre performance or experience to visit your premises. Or group activity holiday funding to a wide variety of destinations such as outdoor activity centres, holiday camps and sailing breaks.
Primary / Secondary / SEND
The Henry Smith Charity
Submission dates vary depending on when the trips take place.
Grants from £500 – £2,750. The purpose of the Holiday Grants programme is to provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. In particular we are interested in contributing to trips that would not take place without our funding.
Primary / SEND / UK
Jack Petchey Foundation
Year Round Applications
Grants up to £1,200 per trip. Our Educational Visit Grants support schools with the costs of making visits to museums, theatres, science shows and more.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / Nationwide
Kingswood
Year Round Applications
We believe that outdoor adventure is for everyone - and that every young person should have the chance to experience a transformative residential trip. That's why we've launched the Kingswood Hardship Fund, to provide financial support for individual young people who face barriers to accessing this experience.
Primary / Secondary / Nationwide
M7 Education
Year Round Applications
No such thing as a free school trip? Actually there is... If you are looking to take a trip outside the classroom, your group has a high percentage of pupils on a pupil premium, and your trip is educational rather than reward based - we may be able to help organise your trip for free!
Primary / Secondary / Nationwide / Pupil Premium 50%
Norfolk Community Foundation
Application Deadline: 20th November
The aim of the Luke Day Adventure Fund is to support young people in Norfolk up to the age of 18 to access outdoor, cultural and music opportunities via their schools that they may otherwise be financially excluded from. The Luke Day Adventure Fund can offer grants of up to £500, which may contribute to the overall costs of extra curricular trips and activities, including trips abroad, to extend children’s experiences of the outdoors, culture and music.
Primary / Secondary / Norfolk
Royal Collection Trust
Year Round Applications
Travel Subsidy Scheme: One of Royal Collection Trust's Charitable Aims is to broaden and increase access for the nation. State schools can apply for help towards the cost of travelling to the Official Residences of The King and The Queen’s Galleries, in order to ensure visits are possible for schools working for, and with, economically disadvantaged pupils. Schools can also apply for complimentary facilitated visits through the Royal Collection via the Schools Access Scheme.
Primary / Secondary / Nationwide / Pupil Premium 30%
School Journey Association
Year Round Applications
As a registered charity, The School Journey Association strongly believes in inclusion, and doesn’t want any child to miss out. One of the prime purposes is to support children from disadvantaged families or with special needs who might not otherwise be able to participate in school trips. For this reason, we may be able to offer a grant of up to 50% of the school trip cost to help individual children from disadvantaged families to participate.
Primary / Secondary / Nationwide
UK-German Connection
Year Round Applications
Grants for joint activities between schools for UK-German activities. Partnership Visit Fund for staff planning visits for teachers and Headteachers. Instant Impact for first-time taster trips, group visits aimed at reviving a dormant partnership, or joint thematic projects.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / UK / Germany
Variety, The Children’s Charity
Year Round Applications
Variety Great Days Out are open to schools that work with disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. Each year, we take thousands of children to one of our themed parties, the seaside, the circus, the theatre, the zoo, a theme park or other attractions around the UK.
Primary / Secondary / SEND / PRU / Nationwide
Weald & Downland Living Museum
Year Round Applications
The Weald & Downland Living Museum Travel Bursary is available as full or part payment for travel to and from the Museum up to a maximum of £400 per school/college per year.
Hampshire / Kent / Surrey / East Sussex / West Sussex / Free School Meals 10% / Pupil Premium 10% / Special Measures / SEND
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