SHINE funds and develops educational programmes to help disadvantaged children make the most of their time at school. These include specialist after school clubs, complementary classes on Saturdays and intensive literacy and numeracy support sessions.
Some projects respond to the challenge of children with special educational needs, who require specific help to bring them up to speed. Some help underachievers, where a little more attention will enable them to do much better. And others stretch gifted children who want to see just how good they can really be.
Big Impact Programmes
To achieve maximum effect, we happily pool our resources wherever practical. Our Big Impact Programmes are co-funded with other organisations to provide better literacy tuition, after-school clubs and superb teachers to the children who need them most. more >
Gifted Students
We fund programmes that challenge gifted and talented mathematicians and scientists from disadvantaged families, expanding horizons and fuelling ambitions as they see just how much they can achieve. more >
Literacy Programmes
Some of SHINE’s most important projects provide essential extra one-to-one support for young children who are seriously struggling to read and write – basic skills that hold the key to their future engagement and achievement at school. more >
Literacy Plus
SHINE also funds projects that combine literacy support with intensive tuition in ICT or philosophical thinking – equipping young minds with the practical and mental skills they need to flourish in the classroom. more >
Serious Fun on Saturdays
A lot can be achieved with a partnership approach: top independent schools open their superb facilities to enrich and expand the core curriculum for local children unlikely to receive extra educational support at home. more >
SHINE on Saturdays
One of our core programmes, SHINE on Saturdays helps underachieving children at both primary and secondary schools by injecting 20% extra tuition into every school week, accelerating and complementing their classroom learning. more >
Special Focus
Projects that increase the educational chances of disadvantaged young people and some groups that are particularly vulnerable, such as children in care, the children of refugees and young people excluded, or at risk of exclusion, from school. more >
Science Programmes
An important part of SHINE's work is giving children a chance to experiment - quite literally. The science programmes funded by SHINE emphasise scientific enquiry and practical skills. more >
Previous Grants
SHINE's previous grants. more >
