The foundation has a rolling programme of grants and has 5.6m for education projects this year.
It does not fund statutory agencies, local education authorities or schools, but instead gives grants to the community and voluntary sector for strategic work.
Its grants broadly cover what programme director Hilary Hodgson calls "imaginative and flexible" approaches to education. For example, last year it gave a grant of 84,950 to the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, which used the money to fund a two-year project looking at how to involve children in the design and planning of its services.
Children excluded from school are also a target, with grants given last year to Tower Hamlets Summer University for those at risk of exclusion and the Learning Through Action Trust, which works with kids who have been excluded.
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