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The Sutton Trust

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111 Upper Richmond Road
Putney
London
SW15 2TJ


Contact:

The Trust Administrator

Position:
Phone: 020 8788 3223
Fax: 020 8788 3993
Web: http://www.suttontrust.com
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Registered Charity Number: 1067197
Last update: 20/08/2009


Grant total

Grant total £ 3,300,000


Areas of work

Education


Trustees

Sir Peter Lampl; David Backinsell; Glyn Morris.


Beneficial area

UK only.


Information available

Informative annual review, separate annual accounts, good website.


General information

Summary

The Sutton Trust was established in 1997 with the aim of providing educational opportunities for children and young people from non-privileged backgrounds. It has funded a large number of access projects in early years, school and university settings, and now plans to focus primarily on research and policy work, as well as a small number of innovative pilot initiatives.

The following statement taken from the trust’s 2008 accounts explains the new policy further.

During the course of the year the trustees decided to move away from large scale initiatives and refocus on research and policy work – attempting to prompt wider change in the educational system by looking into an issue, proposing and testing a solution, and advocating evidence based reform. In keeping with this model, the trust will continue to fund small scale demonstration projects which will, as before, span the early years, school and college settings and into higher education and the professions.’

The trust envisages that most of these projects will be developed through existing contacts and partnerships. Please contact the trust for further information.

Grants in 2008

In 2008 the trust had assets of £1.4 million and an income of £4.8 million. Grants totalled £3.3 million and were broken down as follows:

University outreach £1,500,000
School/colleges £1,400,000
Research projects £387,000
Early years learning £63,000
Open access 0

Beneficiaries included: Bristol University Summer School, Oxford Access Scheme, LEAPS, Industrial Trust Schools Project, INTO University, Parents as First Teachers, University of York, Social Mobility Summit and Durham University.


Applications

The trust states that it, 'is now focusing on research and policy work, and will only be funding a select handful of small scale pilot projects. We envisage that most of these projects will be developed through existing contacts and partnerships'. As such, unsolicited applications are unlikely to be successful.

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