The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, founded in 1803, is the UK’s only state‑funded full boarding school, built on over two centuries of military heritage, and now enrolling around 500 pupils aged 11–18 as a co‑educational academy with a strong ethos of service, character, and academic ambition.
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Christ’s Hospital, founded in 1552, is the UK’s leading charitable school and largest bursary charity, offering free or reduced-cost places to over 630 of its 900 pupils annually.
The Royal Medical Foundation supports doctors, who are or have been registered with the General Medical Council and who are in financial hardship, and their families. In limited circumstances we can assist with children’s school fees to maintain educational stability when families are facing challenging times – this is primarily when children are already part-way through fee-paying education and any changes to their schooling would cause disruption, or where a child’s specific needs can only be met via provision at a fee-paying school.
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is the UK’s leading family of independent girls’ schools, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students between the ages of three and 18.
The Mitchell City of London Educational Foundation
View ProfileGrants support secondary-age children and sixth formers to stay at their current fee-paying school, when there has been a change to the financial situation. There must be a connection to the City of London through school, residence, or employment.
The Canon Holmes Memorial Trust provides financial aid to parents who, due to changed family finances, can no longer meet the cost of their children’s independent school education.
For over a century, the Foundation has supported children who’ve lost one or both parents or their support, offering stability, structure, and pastoral care within LWC’s award-winning boarding community.
The Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation is a social mobility charity partnering with local authorities and social care organisations to place vulnerable children in state boarding and independent schools.
Royal Pinner provides educational support for families facing hardship where at least one parent is or was recently employed as a travelling B2B sales representative.
RMNEF is a children’s educational charity funding the education of British children of Merchant Navy seafarers, professional sea-going fishermen, and RNLI lifeboat crew members, past or present, unable to afford schooling and associated costs for their children.