Opportunities for schools

Summer and Harvest Sale

This is a great opportunity which Oval Learning schools are already taking part in.

Project aim: for children to sell fruit and vegetables grown at school at Borough Market. All money raised on the day is donated to charity The Felix Project, who provide surplus food to charities and community groups who then transform it into nutritious meals for vulnerable people. It is a great opportunity for children to learn how to grow produce from seed, to use their enterprise skills on sale day at the historic Borough Market and help a good cause. The project will kick off in April and elements include:

• An assembly delivered by School Food Matters to introduce the project, inform children about food surplus and the work of The Felix Project (late March/early April 2023
• Gardening and market-trader training at Borough Market for a small group of your students (end of April 2023
• A site visit to your school by gardening experts to see how your growing is going (June or July 2023)
• Sale day at Borough Market (summer sale in July 2023, harvest sale in October 2023

Free tree planting packs

As part of the Mayor’s Trees for London programme there are packs of 50 trees available for schools. Packs available are hedgerows, fruiting and wildlife packs.

Deadline: 10 February. Trees will be delivered between 20-24 February.

Free after-school girls’ football

Girls United run free weekly after-school Girls Football club at school (they need 1 staff member to attend). It has been transformative in local schools, one of which now has a Saturday girls football squad! They have spaces for 2 other schools to join the program in January.

The National Theatre

Whether you’re teaching in primary, secondary, further education or at SEND/SEMH schools, The National Theatre is here to help inspire creativity in your classroom.

They also run Student conferences. Designed for GCSE and A-Levels, they feature talks and masterclasses with members of the company and creative team. Sessions include exploration of the play text and the process of bringing the production to the stage.

Lambeth’s Spring of Food and Fun 2023

Lambeth Council has been awarded funding by the Department of Education (DfE) to co-ordinate a local Holiday activities and food (HAF) Programme during Spring, Summer, and Winter school holidays, 2023. This programme will deliver free activities and healthy food for school-aged children and young people (4 to 16 years old, Reception to Year 11) eligible for and in receipt of benefit-related Free School Meals (FSM). 

The aim of the HAF programme is to provide free holiday club places for school-aged children and young people (4 to 16 years old) who are:

• residents in the borough or attend a Lambeth school
• eligible for benefits-related Free School Meals (FSM)
• Please note that this is different to the Universal Free School Meals (UFSM) offer which is available to all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 and is not means tested.   

Eligible organisations are:

• registered charities  
• voluntary, community, or faith organisations  
• companies limited by guarantee  
• community interest companies  
• social enterprises  
• schools 
• parent-teacher friends associations

Deadline: Friday 10th February, 2023 at 5pm

Outdoor Essentials grant

The Environmental Education charity The Ernest Cook Trust, is currently accepting applications for its latest Outdoor Essentials Grant.  The Outdoor Essentials Grant is a £500 award to UK state funded Primary and Secondary schools to enable them to get their pupils learning outdoors. The current round of funding is for grants to be used for  Transport & Travel costs to Outdoor Learning venues.

Priority is given to those with high disadvantage or in an area of high deprivation. Please apply as quickly as possible, the form should only take 10 minutes, so apply before you break up for Christmas holidays.

Deadline: The application window will close when a ceiling number of applications is reached, this normally takes less than 3 weeks.