Scaling Impactful Solutions
A staggering 4.2 million children are now living in poverty and at every stage of education, there are substantial and growing gaps between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers. 2024 offers a unique opportunity for change, with the General Election spotlighting the need for systemic transformation.
We help effective solutions reach every child and young person who can benefit from them. We do this by nurturing new ideas that will tackle entrenched issues and scale impactful solutions to reach the young people who need them most.
Through our Awards, we take a collective approach to scaling impactful solutions. They leverage the expertise and connections of our membership, and the power of the network of over 280 organisations to amplify and collaborate, enabling systemic change.
The Innovation Award
Apply now!!!
〰️
Apply now!!! 〰️
✔️ Open to anyone 👉 1 year of support 💰 £25,000 six-month salary contribution
📆 Open for applications 8 February - 31 May at 12pm!
The Innovation Award, supported by Bloomberg, provides one year of hands-on support and a £25,000 six-month salary contribution for new solutions tackling educational inequality. Open to any member of the public and FEA members who want funding and training to develop, test and scale their new solution.
Saturday 16 March Innovation and Scale Booster 2024 – SIGN UP NOW for a full day of interactive workshops and 1:1 clinics for anyone with an idea to tackle educational inequality in England AND FEA members wanting to develop an internal innovation or scale to areas of greatest need! Find out more here.
We highly recommend that you attend the Booster to make your application to the Innovation Award as strong as possible.
Our 2023 Innovation Award Winners:
Community Choice Award Winner 2023 - We are delighted to announce that our Community Choice Winner this year is Stone Soup Cooperative Nursery. The Community Choice Award Winner receives a prize of £500 to develop their initiative.
The Scaling Award
✔️ For FEA members only 👉 2 years of support
📆 Open for applications in Spring 2025
We scale existing solutions within our member organisations that have proven impact. We provide a bespoke package of support to help Scaling Award Winners deepen their impact and accelerate their growth to areas of greatest need.
Our 2023 Scaling Award Winners:
With thanks to our Judges:
Thank you to our 42 judges and due diligence experts from across the sector who supported the selection process. We are grateful to have had the support of such a diverse group of expert judges, with 20 of them representing our member organisations e.g. Ambition Institute, ImpactEd and Save the Children. We were also grateful to the wider sector for their input, with organisations such as the EEF, EPI, NFER, Spring Impact and 10 schools/MAT's represented across the panels.
This year we were delighted to work with our Youth Steering Group as part of the selection process for the Innovation Award. They critiqued the applications at shortlisting phase and Olia and Elijah represented the group as Final Judges.
Learn more about our experts for each award - Innovation and Scaling.
With special thanks to our supporters:
THE INNOVATION AWARD IS MADE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF BLOOMBERG
Caroline Rowley, Head of UK, Ireland & Middle East, Corporate Philanthropy at Bloomberg said: “At Bloomberg, we are committed to improving social mobility and have been a long-term supporter and advocate of education initiatives across the UK. We are incredibly proud to support the Fair Education Alliance in its efforts to promote innovation and collaboration in the education sector, ensuring that greater numbers of students can access and thrive in education, irrespective of family income or circumstance. With the cost of living crisis threatening to entrench existing inequalities within our educational sector, the work of these incredible award winners is vital.”