Impact

  • Since August 2000, we have committed more than £12 million to projects helping almost 24,000 children from more than 850 schools.
  • We rigorously monitor and evaluate the projects we fund to ensure that they make a sustained and positive difference to the young lives they help. Click on the navigation bar above to find out more about our monitoring and evaluation procedures.
  • To quantify the impact of the grants we make, SHINE's trustees commissioned the London School of Economics to conduct research into our grant-making process and assess the level and type of outcomes that these grants delivered. For more information about the research and its findings, click on the navigation bar above.
  • In December 2007, SHINE became the first ever grant-making trust to be recommended by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), an independent organisation that advises donors on the most effective charities in the UK. Click here to download NPC's summary of SHINE. Download Now
  • In June 2010, SHINE's trustees appointed NFER (the National Foundation for Economic Research) to conduct an independent evaluation of our SHINE on Saturdays project strand. NFER will assess the projects’ effectiveness and results, as well as SHINE’s own role. The report is expected by the end of the year.

Grants and Fundraising

  • We expect to make grants of between £1.5 million and £2 million each year.
  • SHINE's Benefit Dinners have been held in November every year from 2001 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2009. On average, each dinner for 500 people has raised in excess of £1 million net.
  • The 2010 SHINE Benefit Dinner will be held at the Boiler House within Battersea Power Station on Thursday 11th November 2010. Click here to find out more.
  • There are many other ways in which you can help SHINE. For a few suggestions, just click here.

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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