Grant funding

As well as delivering our core education offer, Lapwing also plan, lead and implement additional education projects which are funded by grant making organisations.  These projects always have a specific focus and clearly defined outcomes and either enable us to provide an enhanced offer to our current cohort (for example through our Summer Interventions Programme), or allow us to reach even more young people who are in significant need of specialist intervention.

The most recent projects we have delivered, and the associated grant making organisations we have worked with, are listed below.

Summer Interventions Programme
This programme, which has run annually since 2017, enables young people in Suffolk, Norfolk and north Essex, deemed at risk of isolation or regression in terms of mental health, youth crime, substance misuse and educational engagement, to maintain their current progress throughout the summer holiday period.

Click to read a 2022 case study of a post 16 student, D, who benefited from a continuation of his education programme through the summer holidays.
Click to read a 2021 case study of a post 16 student, Joe, who benefited from a continuation of his education programme.
Click to read case study 1 and case study 2 from 2020.
Click to read case study 1 and case study 2 from 2019.
Click here to read a 2018 case study.

Lapwing has received a number of grants and donations to support our Summer Interventions Programme over the years as well as partially self funding this important work ourselves. Suffolk Community Foundation have been a consistent source of invaluable funding for this non statutory work, providing access to many of the grants listed below:

Summer Interventions Programme funders:
2024 - Suffolk Giving Fund; The Woodbridge Shufflers running club.
2023 - Pear Family Fund; Denbury Charitable Fund.
2022 - Skinner’s Fund; Denbury Charitable Fund; Kingsfleet Community Fund; Private Fund - PFF.
2021 - The Seckford Foundation; #i will fund grant award; WN Estates Family Fund; The Annie Tranmer Charitable Trust; a donation from Suffolk Scrap Store Trust.
2020 - The Seckford Foundation; The Suffolk Scrap Store Trust; other individual donations.
2019 - The Seckford Foundation; The Woodbridge Shufflers running club; The Geoffrey Watling Charity; The Hopkins Charitable Fund.
2018 - The Seckford Foundation; The Ganzoni Trust; Mrs. L. D. Rope Third Charitable Settlement.

Minding The Gap Local 2023-24 (funded by the UKSPF) formerly known as Minding The Gap (funded by the European Social Fund and National Lottery Community Fund 2017-23).  The project provided targeted and intensive support for young people in Suffolk aged 16-24 to gain and sustain employment or education. These young people are unemployed, economically inactive, facing significant barriers to accessing education, employment or the community and currently experiencing or at risk of social isolation.

Performance Stories 2016-17 (funded by Hope House and Gippeswyk Educational Trust and part funded by local schools in Ipswich and surrounding areas). Using drama and storytelling as a vehicle, the 12 week project for students aged 11-15 years of age and at risk of regression or exclusion was designed to build self-confidence, character and resilience culminating in a performance of ‘their story’ to their families, friends and school staff.

Educate & Liberate 2015-17 (funded by Bailey Thomas Charitable Fund, The Sobell Foundation and Gippeswyk Educational Trust).  Working in liaison with LD CAMHS this fund enabled Lapwing to provide targeted support for young people with both significant learning difficulties and mental health issues.

Teen Expectations 2015-17 (funded by Suffolk Coastal District Council).  This project focused on the delivery of bespoke educational support and provision to young mothers and fathers to be as well as those who had recently become parents.