Our Educational Project Grants
Hazel’s Footprints Trust was established with an aim to support access to education for children in developing countries. We are interested in providing grants to a small number of projects each year.
We fund via UK charity partners only and cannot accept applications directly from schools or projects in-country. Charities must be registered with the Charities Commission or the Scottish Charity Register (OSCR). Please read on for our full eligibility criteria.
These grants are not for individuals – for those seeking funding to support their time volunteering in education, please visit our Footprinter Volunteer Grants page.
Supporting education across the developing world
The importance of access to education in developing countries to improve health and livelihoods, contribute to social stability and drive long-term economic growth is well understood. Hazel’s Footprints provides educational project grants to grassroots-type charities with a track record of pursuing this goal and in doing so the Trust seeks to play a small part in improving access to education.
While varied in nature, all projects supported to date have access to education at their core, be that in helping prepare and motivate children to learn, creating and equipping effective environments for learning or helping to address specific learning needs. Examples include projects to provide a school with IT equipment, build a library, build and refurbish classrooms, build a school kitchen and fund specific educational programmes.
If you run a grassroots education-based project, via a UK charity, and you’re looking to make a step-change in the future of your project, then please do get in touch with us. We’d love to hear from you.
Eligibility for educational project grants
We fund via UK charity partners only and cannot accept applications directly from schools or projects in-country. Charities must be registered with the Charities Commission or the Scottish Charity Register (OSCR).
To help establish whether your project would be eligible for consideration, please review the following guidelines.
Project
- The project offers access to education at its core, be that in helping prepare and motivate children to learn, creating and equipping effective environments for learning or helping to address specific learning needs
- The project is in a developing country
- Funding requested is no more than £25,000 (note that grants are typically between £2,000 and £15,000 and larger sums will only be considered in exceptional circumstances)
- Funding should be for a specific educational purpose. It must be ring-fenced for either a capital project (e.g. classroom renovation) or for a named operational cost (e.g. a headteacher salary). Applications for general funds, feeding programmes and sponsorship of children will not be considered.
- For all applications for capital projects, the grant requested from Hazel’s Footprints Trust must be at least 40% of the total project cost.
Applying organisation
- The applicant organisation is a UK registered charity in good standing
- The applicant organisation has an average annual turnover for the past 3 years of under £200,000
- The applicant organisation has a demonstratable track record of effectively delivering projects in the region in which the project will take place
- The applicant organisation has documented policies covering child protection
Apply for Educational Project Grant Funding
If you are happy that you meet all of our eligibility criteria above, you can apply for a grant. Note that we typically have two funding rounds each year – one in May/June and one in November/December. You must apply no later than mid-February and mid-August respectively to be considered at the next funding round.
In recent years, we have funded
£1,300 for IT School equipment in Malawi
£4,000 for an outreach teacher for deaf children in Kenya
£3,900 for computer room at a school in The Gambia
£8,544 for a special educational needs teacher in Vietnam
£3,000 for a vocational skills project for girls in Rwanda
£9,000 for a social worker to help children access education in Tanzania
£3,600 a year for 9 pre-school classes in Ethiopia
£8,900 to complete a secondary school project in Tanzania
£5,000 for covid handwashing facilities at schools in Kenya
£12,960 for teachers at an innovative school in rural India
This is just a small proportion of the projects we have funded so far and we are eager to support many more in the future.
We are aware that new facilities and guaranteeing specific running costs can really help to change the futures of schools in developing countries.
If you run a grass-roots education-based project, via a UK charity, and you’re looking for financial support for a specific initiative, you may be eligible to apply for a grant.
