Our distinguishing characteristics
- SHINE's trustees fund all SHINE's annual operating costs.
- Every penny of every donation reaches the projects we fund.
- Our trustees' skills provide innovative management for our endowment.
- We make a small number of large grants.
- We are committed to developing a broad range of partnerships.
- We have an absolute determination to achieve measurable outcomes.
How we work
- We are committed to providing outstanding returns for our donors.
- We proactively search for projects to fund.
- We link with respected organisations to fund innovative projects.
- We define measurable outcomes with grantees prior to funding.
- We monitor and evaluate to ensure delivery of these defined outcomes.
- We are keen to replicate successful projects and are actively seeking new donors to help us achieve this goal.
By the age of 5, disadvantaged children have a vocabulary almost one year behind that of children from middle income families|The Sutton Trust, 2010||Every year, well over 1 in 3 children receiving free school meals leave primary school with substandard maths and English - around twice as many as children not on free school meals|National Statistics, 2010||Last year, only 27% of students eligible for free school meals achieved five or more A*-C GCSEs (including English and maths) - around half the national average|National Statistics, 2010||Disadvantaged students that do perform well at GCSE are still less likely to go onto higher education at all, let alone to a Russell Group university|The Sutton Trust, 2010||Since August 2000, we have invested more than £12 million in projects in London and Manchester||This money is now helping almost 24,000 children from more than 850 schools