Supporting vulnerable children with educational grants
The Educational Trusts' Forum is a community of trusts which provide financial grants to help vulnerable children. Find out more...


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

Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
Visit WebsiteWe are one of the largest independent grant-giving organisations helping those families who have lost a seafaring parent. The Institution supports families by providing grants for the children throughout their education.

Armed Forces Education Trust
Visit WebsiteThe Armed Forces Education Trust is a charity supporting children and young adults whose education has been compromised or put at risk as a result of parents' past or current service in our Armed Forces.

Royal Medical Foundation
Visit WebsiteThe RMF assist GMC registered doctors and their families who have a proven financial need due to little in the way of income or savings. We can provide assistance with school fees for sons or daughters of GMC registered doctors enabling them to maintain educational stability in times of distress. Assistance is mainly considered for those in their public examination years.
Non-educational financial assistance, both regular and one-off awards, are also considered for GMC registered doctors, or their widows, widowers and children who have a proven financial need.
Canon Holmes Memorial Trust
Visit WebsiteThe Canon Holmes Memorial Trust is dedicated to providing financial assistance to parents who on account of a change in family finances find themselves unable to continue to meet their financial commitments to their children's education within the independent sector.
Thornton Smith & Plevins Young People's Trust
We provide financial assistance to Sixth Form students in independent education whose families no longer have the sufficient means to pay the required fees.
"Please pass on my very grateful thanks to the Trustees for the support given to my daughter. I am delighted to be able to tell you she gained A* A A for her A levels. She will be taking up her place at Cambridge to read Theology in 2015."
The parent of a child who was supported by Reedham Children's Trust