Deadline: 15 January 2025
The SHINE is seeking grant applications to support teachers with innovative ideas for projects that can be trialled and developed with the potential to improve outcomes for socio-economically disadvantaged children living in the North of England.
Let Teachers SHINE is a social incubator programme for practising teachers with early-stage ideas aimed at improving outcomes for disadvantaged students in the North.
Funding Information
- Each year, they award funding of up to £25,000 over two years for new applicants.
Ineligible Expenses
- Capital build projects, including refurbishments, gardens, libraries and transport.
- Projects based outside of the North of England without plans to scale or develop in the North of England.
- Projects that do not target or benefit children from less advantaged backgrounds.
- One-off projects that can’t show a long-term link to attainment (summer schools, drop-in clubs etc.).
- Projects where more than 50% of the budget is to be spent on equipment. including books and technology.
- Afterschool clubs/holiday clubs that don’t link to the curriculum priorities.
Eligible Projects
- SHINE is looking for projects that best meet the following essential criteria:
- Led by a qualified teacher or 2 teachers working in a school 1 in the North of England or teachers with commitment and capacity to roll out their project into schools in the North of England.
- Clear focus on a barrier to education that affects many children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds2 in core subjects (English, maths and Science).
- Demonstrates innovation: how is your idea different, or an improvement to current practice?
- Can be tested to assess its impact
- Can be sustained long-term to demonstrate ongoing improvements in educational outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- They welcome applications from teachers especially those based in the North and all types of schools
- Are clearly additive to the existing landscape of educational provision.
- Help teachers deliver content more effectively, and seek to reduce rather than add to existing workload.
- Can be readily shared and embedded easily.
- Have a plan for how they would grow beyond the initial grant (for example working with higher student numbers, or in other schools or other areas) especially across the North.
- Have the backing of your school and leadership team.
- Are realistically costed and offer value for money.
- Are informed by available educational research.
For more information, visit SHINE.
