Educational Field Trip Grants - Guidance

Educational Field Trip Grants - NOW OPEN
We are now accepting applications for Educational Field Trip grants from Lambeth schools for school trips taking place in 2023/24 academic year.  The Application Form is here.

We make grants to schools to subsidise the cost of school trips for Lambeth-resident pupils from low income households so that they may participate fully and not be excluded because of household income.

• Grants may not be used to reduce the costs of the trip for every child but instead should be used to subsidise the costs of those for whom cost is genuinely a barrier to participation.
• The school should ensure through its own budget (or other sources) that no child eligible to participate will be left behind because of inability to pay.
• We only accept applications for children Key Stage 2 and above (i.e. Early Years and Key Stage 1 classes are ineligible to apply).
• The School should be certain that those children who have chosen not to participate in the educational field trip have opted out for reasons other than financial ones.
• The School should have a stated policy that it is the School’s expectation that all eligible children participate in educational field trips and that these trips form part of the broader curriculum.
• Schools should have a system where children begin paying in installments well in advance of the educational field trip taking place.
• The costs of the trip should be reasonable.
• Applications should be submitted at least 16 weeks before date of trip.

• We can only award a bursary of up to 50% of the actual cost a standard parent is paying (up to a maximum of £180 per Pupil Premium student). However, the average pay-out is around £120 per Pupil Premium and we will strongly take into consideration that trips be value-for-money.  The full bursary must be passed onto the Lambeth resident pupils eligible for Pupil Premium. 
   
  EXAMPLE: A school is organising a 4 day trip that will cost the school £300 per pupil.  Through PTA fundraising, the school is able to subsidise the trip to ALL parents so that a full-paying parent only pays £250.  The Foundation can then contribute up to 50% of this cost as a bursary for children eligible for Pupil Premium.  In this example, the Foundation could contribute £125 towards the school trip, so that the Pupil Premium parent would only pay £125.

A schools may make a maximum of two applications within one financial year (April to March). 

Reporting: You will be emailed a link to the reporting form after the trip (example of monitoring form here).