Funding children in need of support in their education

The Education Trusts’ Forum is a community of grant giving trusts and schools

Welcome to the Education Trusts’ Forum website. You can search for grant providers who may be able to support you, or learn more about our work through the case studies on our About the ETF page.

Use the drop down menus to search for educational grants that meet your needs. If you are a parent, guardian or grandparent, please use the ‘Categories’ menu to select any relevant professions with which you are associated.

We have also included a full list of each of the charities featured on our site below.

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Our member trusts are here to provide the support you need

The Mitchell City of London Educational Foundation

Grants 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.

Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation

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.

Wispers Trust

Wispers Trust, founded after Wispers School’s closure, funds pupils in Years 10–13 whose education is at risk due to parents’ financial hardship. Applicants must live in Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey, or London.

Duke of Yorks Royal Military School

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.

Westminster French Protestant School Foundation

The charity provides termly grants of up to £1,500 for children attending UK fee paying junior and secondary schools.

The Lloyd Foundation

Grants for any chld over the age of 5 years of parents of a British citizen and in need of financial assistance to obtain a British type education either overseas or in the UK whilst the family is living/working overseas.

Royal Medical Foundation

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.

Naval Children’s Charity

The Naval Children’s Charity supports the wellbeing and development of children and young people under 25 whose parents serve or have served in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, QARNNS, WRNS, or Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The Lord Wandsworth Foundation

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.

Thornton-Smith and Plevins Trust

The Trustees offer grants to help students in years 11–13 remain at their current fee-paying school after sudden family income loss, usually alongside substantial financial support from the school.

Canon Holmes Memorial Trust

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.

The Royal Pinner Educational Trust

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.

St Marylebone Educational Foundation

An educational grant-giving charity providing financial support to individuals under 25 with a two-year connection to the City of Westminster through residence or schooling; local organisations and schools may also qualify.

School Fees Charitable Trust

The School Fees Charitable Trust supports parents facing genuine hardship from sudden, unforeseen circumstances, helping those who can no longer afford private school fees they had reasonably expected to pay.

The NFL Trust

The NFL Trust promotes girls’ education in line with Christian principles, primarily by awarding bursaries for girls aged 11–18 to attend fee-charging schools across the United Kingdom.

Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation

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.

Greenwich Hospital

Greenwich Hospital supports the Royal Navy community by funding education, welfare, and urgent needs. As the largest funder for Royal Navy and Royal Marines families, it drives positive change and empowerment.

Christ’s Hospital

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.

LTC Education Group

LTC Education Group (LTCEG) brings together Licensed Trade Charity’s (LTC) mainstream and specialist schools under one mission, to transform lives and unleash potential. As a family of schools, we deliver exceptional education for every learner.

The Girls’ Day School Trust

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.

Armed Forces Education Trust

The Armed Forces Education Trust is a grant-giving charity supporting children and young adults whose education has been compromised or put at risk as a result of parents’ service in the UK Armed Forces.

The Emmott Foundation

Grants support sixth-form pupils to stay at their current fee-paying school when parents or guardians face sudden financial hardship due to an unexpected family crisis.

Reed’s School

The Andrew Reed Foundation supports children who have lost the support of one or both parents by offering a Foundation bursary to attend Reed’s School. Entry points are Year 7 and Year 9 for boys and Year 12( for boys and girls). Priority is given to students where there is a need to board.