Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust: The Service Pupil Support programme
Overview
Overview
- Two-year grants of £5K to £150K
- Closing date midday 30 April
- Supporting educational pathways for Service pupils aged 4-18 years
Eligibility
They invite applications from local authorities, and schools in the UK which have children of currently serving armed forces personnel on roll. Service refers to regular forces or reserves (full-time reserve service).
They can accept applications from:
- maintained schools
- academies
- free schools
- sixth form and FE colleges
- local authorities
- multi-academy Trusts
Specialist educational organisations can be involved in a bid; however, the lead applicant will need to be one of the above.
There are two ways to apply for a grant under this programme.
- Schools with more than 10 service pupils, and local authorities can make a single application for form a cluster. Whichever best suits the needs of the service pupils.
- Schools with 10 or fewer service pupils should look to form a cluster. There is more detail about this in the Programme Guidance document below.
In the context of this programme, they consider a cluster to be a group of three or more schools.
Full eligibility criteria is available in the guidance documents
What’s available
You can apply for a grant of between £5,000 and £150,000 towards a standalone project being delivered over a period of up to two years.
Themes and priorities
Through this programme, we would like to support projects that ensure the needs of service pupils are met through effective interventions in response to an evidence base that clearly defines need.
Your project will need to clearly address one or more of the following outcomes:
- Closing the gap.
- Support for service pupils with SEN/D, ASN, ALN.
- Mobility, deployment and separation.
- Low numbers of service pupils.
For more detail on these themes see the Programme Guidance document.