Grant funders

Department for Education

Government, England

Also known as DFE, Department of Education and Science

United Kingdom 1 open call

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Given in 2025 £500k
Typical grant £500k Middle half £500k to £500k
New grantees in 2025 0% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

0% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 67% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 9,000 grants · typical £78k
South East 8,634 grants · typical £76k
North West 7,817 grants · typical £76k
East of England 7,239 grants · typical £68k
West Midlands 7,048 grants · typical £61k
Yorkshire and The Humber 6,714 grants · typical £63k
South West 6,501 grants · typical £55k
East Midlands 5,371 grants · typical £55k

Top local authority areas

Birmingham 1,545 grants · typical £63k
Cornwall 825 grants · typical £49k
Somerset 746 grants · typical £64k
Buckinghamshire 727 grants · typical £85k
Bromley 723 grants · typical £73k
Sheffield 716 grants · typical £66k
Leeds 699 grants · typical £86k
North Yorkshire 675 grants · typical £71k
Bradford 632 grants · typical £61k
Manchester 595 grants · typical £80k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance Student Transfer Capital £500k 25 Mar 2025
Student Minds Student space £263k 12 Sep 2024
The Trading Standards Institute NTS Backstop Arrangement £90k 18 Jul 2024
South Devon College Competitive Capital 2022-25 £105k 10 Jun 2024
University of keele Competitive Capital 2022-25 £1.8m 10 Jun 2024
St. George's hospital medical school Competitive Capital 2022-25 £1.9m 10 Jun 2024
Nottingham College Competitive Capital 2022-25 £566k 10 Jun 2024
London South Bank University Competitive Capital 2022-25 £2.0m 10 Jun 2024
University of East London Competitive Capital 2022-25 £2.7m 10 Jun 2024
Bradford College Competitive Capital 2022-25 £3.3m 10 Jun 2024

Data: Contains grants data published by UK grantmakers via 360Giving GrantNav. Each award names its publisher and licence. (CC BY 4.0, OGL v3.0 or CC0 1.0, as published by each funder (CC BY-SA data excluded)); Cabinet Office, via 360Giving GrantNav (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)