Grants of between £20,000 and £100,000 are available to a wide range of UK not-for-profit organisations for projects across the UK which are innovative and challenge the current norms of thinking about education.
The Edge Innovation Fund (EIF) is taking a different approach to grant funding. The Fund will be refreshed with new funds every January up until January 2025. The EIF has no closing date; applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and reviewed at regular intervals.
The Edge Innovation Fund is looking for projects across the UK which are disruptive and innovative in their thinking and approach to education, challenging current norms of thinking. The EIF will focus on enabling organisations to create proof of concept of new and innovative approaches. This could include new areas of work for Edge as long as the approach relates back to the Foundation’s core mission of “Making Education Relevant”. All projects should:
• Be innovative.
• Be disruptive and challenging to the current education system approach.
• Address the need for a broad and balanced curriculum containing both vocational and academic learning.
• Address Edge's strategic priorities of:
o support making education relevant - empowering young people to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for success as adults, workers and citizens to play a role in society and address challenging global issues, supporting employers to feel that young people have the qualities they are looking for in a changing economy.
o support a broad, flexible and engaging education.
o support high quality, respected professional and vocational education, and
o support education being connected to employers and the community.
Grants of between £20,000 and £100,000 for a wide range of organisations. Please note that there is a matched funding requirement for this grant programme. Applications will be accepted from projects who can demonstrate, within 6 weeks of notification of selection for potential funding, match funding of at least 20% of total project costs. Matched funding can be sourced from applicants’ reserves or from third party funding and must be financial funding (i.e. not in-kind support).
To apply, applicants are required to register with the Foundation.
Further information, guidance, frequently asked questions (FAQs) and details about how to apply can be found on the Foundation’s website.