Funding and awards

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

£10,000 for any one project

Criteria

Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities (RMCC) support children’s causes in the UK.

Schools are eligible to apply. Grants are awarded to provide a variety of equipment that will help to enhance the lifestyle of children with special needs.

RMCC’s focus for 2004 is supporting specialist play equipment for children who are wheelchair users. Grants are available to benefit children of all ages throughout the UK.

Contact details

Application packs are available from:
Charlotte Bull
RMCC
11-59 High Road
East Finchley
London N2 8AW

Tel: 020 8700 7091
Fax: 020 8700 7417
Email: cbull@uk.mcd.com

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

8 prizes totalling over 40,000 euros

Criteria

European Schoolnet has launched the eLearning Awards 2004. Schools and local education authorities can apply.

The eLearning Awards recognise work already in progress or project ideas that have recently been finalised, not projects that are started specifically to enter the awards. There are eight different categories recognising different aspects of using ICT in the classroom and beyond. The main award is The Young Digital Poland Award for Innovative use of ICT in education.

Entries must be submitted online. Projects between schools and educational institutions can be entered but each submission must be represented by a school or organisation involved with the programme.

Evaluators will consider the following when choosing potential winners:

• Content
• Evidence of networking and collaboration
• Promotion of active learning
• Technical quality
• Transferability
• Teaching innovation

Judges will evaluate the short-listed projects and select the winners.

Winners will be invited to attend a ceremony in Prague in November 2004.

Contact details

Contact the project administrator Chris Coakley (Email:chris.coakley@eun.org Tel: 00 32 3 790 7575) or visit elearningawards.eun.org.

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

(See below)

Criteria

The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) has launched the National Teaching Awards for 2004. Nominations can be for teachers from primary and secondary settings who have introduced, encouraged and developed a keen interest from their pupils in subjects related to electronic, electrical or manufacturing engineering. Nominations might be particularly appropriate for those teaching science, design and technology or mathematics. Teachers nominated for an award must have demonstrated high quality teaching and encouraged pupils to work to a high standard.

Each of the 12 winners will receive:

• £100
• a year's free membership of the IEE
• a framed certificate.

The awards will be presented at an awards dinner with overnight accommodation for the winner and a guest. Supply cover for one day will be available and those who nominated teh winning teachers will be invited to attend the dinner. Winners and their schools will receive local and national publicity.

Nominations forms can be downloaded from the website (see address below).

Contact details

Teacher Awards
Education 5-19
The IEE
Michael Faraday House
Six Hills Way
Stevenage
Herts
SG1 2AY

Tel: 01438 767373
Email: schools@iee.org.uk
Website: www.iee.org/EduCareers/Schools/teacherawards.cfm

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

At least £500

Criteria

These awards are open to primary, secondary and special schools in England, Wales and Scotland. Schools are invited to send in their garden design ideas using IT to submit their entry.

Projects that demonstrate one or both of the following will be highly regarded:

• An awareness of faith in their design
• The practice of good organisation and management in the function and design

REEP offers a selection of ways in which schools can express their aims and objectives in designing a garden but schools can adapt or create other types of garden. However, every application must include one or both of the two principles described above.

REEP is also awarding the REEP-ACE Award, for an artist working with a school to design a garden, which includes artwork incorporating text. This project can be in any medium and include any world faith. Projects can be eligible for a REEP and ACE award.

Contact details

REEP Garden Awards 2004-05
17 Allan House
55 Saffron Hill
London
EC1N 8QX

Tel: 020 7404 6859
Email: enquiries@reep.org
Website: www.reep.org/awards/05/index.php

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

Winner: £500; Runners-up: £300 and £200

Criteria

Secondary school geography departments can be nominated for the awards, which aim to recognise innovation in geography departments where pupils are encouraged to continue studying the subject after their compulsory schooling.

The awards aim to reward departmental teamwork, which includes all the pupils in the school who are taught geography, that has, for example:

• developed a system of resource sharing and lesson planning using information technology that cuts down individual workload freeing up more time to introduce new topics and ideas to the programme
• created a teaching method that enables pupils to cope with complex questions that relate to a range of environmental issues such as global warming.

The list is to offer guidance rather than actual examples.

The geography department needs to be nominated by someone outside the school; an adviser, consultant or inspector, for example. As well as writing a suitable endorsement, the sponsor must complete a nomination form.

Entries will be judged on:

• how effectively the geography department has handled innovation
• how significant this has been in relation to the success of geography in the whole school
• how convincing the case is
• whether the department is operating an inspiring team
• whether departmental activity has positively influenced others.

Contact details

Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR

Email: c.james@rgs.org
Website:www.geography.org.uk

Organisation

Deadline

Amount of grant

Five grants of £800 each

Criteria

Grants are open to all secondary school geography teachers and trainee teachers.

The Innovative Geography Teaching Grants are to help geography teachers develop creative and imaginative teaching methods and materials.

No money will be awarded solely for the purpose of supply cover, fieldwork or for the purchase of resources.

There is no application form but applicants must type or word-process a proposal of no more than three sides of A4 (1,200 words) and it must contain the following information:

• Name of applicant and address, telephone/fax number of the school where the applicant will be teaching
• Short CV of applicant (including name, address, telephone numbers and email address)
• If applicable, the number of pupils and the level at which they are taught geography.
• Title and 100 word summary of the proposed project.
• A 400 word summary of objectives and teaching programme to be undertaken.
• A 300 word summary of how the proposed project will develop the education of pupils (including their age range)
• Three main criteria that will help judge the project as a success
• A budget - other funding must be shown

A Supporting Statement form must also be sent in with the application, which must be signed by the teacher’s head of department, course tutor, headteacher or employer.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a summary of the project (1,200 words) by the end of September 2005.

Contact details

Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR

Tel: 020 7591 3073
Fax: 020 7591 3001
Email: grants@rgs.org
Website: www.rgs.org/templ.php?page=9granin