Examples are below, but please click here for a full list of grants funded by Walcot Foundation since 2012
May 2022: £65,000 over three years to St Giles Trust to fund SOS+ Embedded Mentor in Bishop Thomas Grant School. Their 'SOS' project employs ex-gang members to support those at risk of gangs in the community and SOS+ is an extension of this work in schools. The project aims to de-glamorise gang culture and expose the realities of crime and violence and would create an embedded SOS+ mentor within the school.
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Nov 2021: £60,000 over three years to The Kids Network for its Lambeth Connecting for Change project. This project will is to fund a new Lambeth Volunteer Coordinator who will mobilise, train and support volunteers to provide weekly mentoring sessions to primary school children who are identified as disadvantaged and referred by local Lambeth schools. This is a 12-month programme (starting in September 2022) with all sessions taking place out of school hours (crucially continuing during the ‘summer learning gap’ when the most disadvantaged children can fall behind their peers).
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May 2021: £75,000 over three years to Turney School for its School Community Links Programme for employability and independence. This is a joint project from Turney School and Lansdowne School (Lambeth Special Schools). This project provides half-day weekly sessions based at Roots and Shoots (in groups of 6-9) for their 16–18-year-old students. It provides accredited, practical, learner led activities based on horticulture, nature and outdoors. This will include work experience and independent living skills for teenagers with autism and complex needs.
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May 2022: £57,584 over three years to The Children's Literacy Charity for their Expert Literacy Lab in Lambeth. This will deliver individual literacy support sessions in three Lambeth schools with the focus on catching up children who are up to 24 months behind their age-expected literacy levels.
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May 2021: £73,389 over three years to Oasis Hub Waterloo to provide part-funding to the Advice Centre Caseworker and Advice Centre Manager which will provide high-quality debt and benefits advice through its integrated community hub model (particularly with the foodbank and local schools). It will also be piloting Level 1 Immigration advice and have expanded advice space through a new community venue (previously a business venue) opposite the current Oasis Waterloo Library.
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