Our grants to schools are designed to enhance educational opportunities and outcomes for pupils from financially poor Lambeth households (that is, families in receipt of means tested benefits, on very low incomes or without access to benefits).
The Walcot Foundation is a Living Wage Funder and we seek to ensure that all posts which are wholly or partially funded by us pay the Living Wage, unless there are particular reasons for this not to happen. Schools do not need to be registered Living Wage employers to apply to the Foundation but we do encourage schools to consider whether this is a possibility for them.
Before applying, schools should ask themselves -
We are interested in receiving applications from projects that fit at least one of our Governor Priorities.
Our grant aid to schools is targeted on pupils who are in financial need; you must therefore be clear who the intended beneficiaries are. We take Pupil Premium - or being verifiably known to be slightly above the eligibility limit (e.g. in receipt of significant working tax credit) - as a proxy indicator of need.
We cannot provide grants for the purchase of goods or services provided for by central or local government or which could reasonably be met from the school's devolved budget. It would need to be clear how the project proposal is additional to the school's core offer to pupils.
We expect schools to consider using their Pupil Premium funding, or to show why that is not possible. We would expect project applications to be match funded by the school's budget.
What we do not fund
The Walcot Foundation is a Living Wage Funder and we seek to ensure that all posts which are wholly or partially funded by us pay the Living Wage, unless there are particular reasons for this not to happen. Schools do not need to be registered Living Wage employers to apply to the Foundation but we do encourage schools to consider whether this is a possibility for them.
Before applying, schools should ask themselves -
- what are the greatest barriers that your pupils from the lowest income households face in achieving their full potential and
- how could funding from us play a role in resolving those difficulties?
We are interested in receiving applications from projects that fit at least one of our Governor Priorities.
Our grant aid to schools is targeted on pupils who are in financial need; you must therefore be clear who the intended beneficiaries are. We take Pupil Premium - or being verifiably known to be slightly above the eligibility limit (e.g. in receipt of significant working tax credit) - as a proxy indicator of need.
We cannot provide grants for the purchase of goods or services provided for by central or local government or which could reasonably be met from the school's devolved budget. It would need to be clear how the project proposal is additional to the school's core offer to pupils.
We expect schools to consider using their Pupil Premium funding, or to show why that is not possible. We would expect project applications to be match funded by the school's budget.
What we do not fund
- independent schools
- anything we consider to be the responsibility of central or local government
- anything we consider could be reasonably met from the school's devolved budget
- debt repayments
- capital works