The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to support the National Saturday Club with a three-year core grant to help more young people access high-quality, free creative education outside school.

The National Saturday Club gives 13–16-year-olds across the UK a unique opportunity to study subjects they love for free, on a Saturday, at their local university, college or cultural institution.

Club members attend weekly Saturday classes led by expert tutors in their local community, and take part in national events throughout the year, including visits to leading cultural institutions; Masterclasses with industry; as well as celebratory end of year events and exhibitions.

A remarkable national network of further education, higher education, the cultural sector, and industry works in partnership to deliver these enriching extracurricular activities.

With a particular focus on engaging young people from underserved and under-represented backgrounds, the National Saturday Club’s established model has proven impact. The programme offers a transformational opportunity to build versatile and creative skills, develop confidence and discover pathways to further study, training and careers.

The grant will support the charity to:

Each year, more than 2,500 young people take part and evidence shows that participants increase their confidence, develop creative and transferable skills, and gain a clearer understanding of education and career opportunities.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to support Tutor Trust in delivering tutoring programmes across educational settings in the North of England, aiming not only to raise academic attainment but also to strengthen pupils’ confidence and enjoyment of learning.

Tutor Trust is a proudly northern charity with a mission to transform lives through tutoring. By providing great tutors to those young people who need them most, Tutor Trust helps to close the wide attainment gap between young people from low-income families and their wealthier peers. When tutoring is delivered well it has a strong positive impact on young people’s attainment, enjoyment and confidence in learning.

Tutor Trust is backed by evidence from two randomised controlled trials (RCT’s), making them unique in the sector for having ‘gold-standard’ evidence of the impact of their work. The first RCT found that pupils made an additional 3-month progress after being offered just 12 hours of tutoring.

Since delivering their first session in 2012, Tutor Trust have supported over 47,000 young. They currently offer tutoring in English, Maths and Science for those aged 5-18.

The support from the Mohn Westlake Foundation will enable Tutor Trust to continue its support of young people across the North of England, whilst implementing a new three-year strategy. This strategy will focus on:

Now in its 7th year, LSA is a free sixth-form academy providing vocational training for the screen and creative industries. The industry rooted curriculum combines academic achievement with real -world experiences, equipping students with the skills and behaviours they need to thrive in the creative sector and beyond.

Community Outreach & Student Demographics
Ensuring LSA continues to attract and support a diverse and representative student body, with a commitment to increasing the proportion of students from Underrepresented Ethnic Groups (UEG), socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds (Free School Meal eligible) and those with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND).

Industry Engagement
The LSA is unique in its access to, and partnership with industry. These partnerships ensure that what students learn is relevant and practical, exposing them to the industry through masterclasses, mentoring, workshops, career days, work placements and internships.

Alumni & Early Careers Advice
In an uncertain job market, LSA is committed to helping students take their first step to achieving their career goals, identifying entry level roles that will support them to build sustainable long-term careers. With a growing alumni community of 1,664, LSA has strengthened its alumni team to identify creative destinations, build community, create routes into work, and support and champion its graduates.

Mental Health Support
Improved data has highlighted gaps in access to mental health support, particularly among young men and students from underrepresented ethnic groups. In response, LSA is piloting drop-in sessions and group workshops on topics such as healthy relationships and stress management. Over the next three years, we will expand this work through more targeted workshops and peer-led activities focused on resilience, peer pressure and practical life skills.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to support The Royal Parks’ Green Futures Project, an innovative programme connecting hundreds of young people with nature conservation and heritage

The Royal Parks provide free access to beautiful, natural and historic parks, which improve our quality of life, health and wellbeing. The charity manages, protects and improves the parks in an exemplary and sustainable manner so that everyone, now and in the future, has the opportunity to enjoy these precious green spaces.

Green Futures is The Royal Parks’ flagship learning project, offering local secondary school students unique hands-on conservation experience, insight into green careers, and a deeper connection with nature and our charity. Delivered over a school year, the programme includes park visit days, online activities, in-school sessions, and tailored learning resources.

Three times a year, selected schools near Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens and Bushy Park bring students aged between 11-14 into the parks to take part in practical tasks such as planting trees and bulbs, clearing bramble and creating dead hedges. They also undertake wildlife and public surveys and explore behind the scenes career paths in the green sector. A group of older students can complete Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) short courses to gain recognised awards.

Launched in 2021, the project addresses young people’s growing disconnect from nature – particularly those from underserved London communities with limited access to green spaces. Over 7,000 young people have already benefited from these free, transformative experiences, with consistently positive feedback from schools.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to support The Reach Foundation’s place-based work to improve outcomes for children and young people, from cradle to career.

The Reach Foundation is a UK-based education charity working to ensure that every child can enjoy a life of choice and opportunity. With deep roots in the community of Feltham (South West London), it supports schools and local partners across the country to build more coherent, consistent and connected systems of support around children and young people. They do this by cultivating bold leadership, catalysing local partnerships, and connecting people and ideas across sectors and places.

Locally: The Feltham Convening Partnership

The Mohn Westlake Foundation’s support has helped grow the Feltham Convening Partnership (FCP)—a place-based initiative that brings together schools, families, public services and the voluntary sector. Together, they’re working to build stronger support systems for children and young people, from early childhood through to adulthood.

Recent activities include:


Nationally: The Cradle-to-Career Accelerator

The Foundation is also enabling the launch of a new Cradle-to-Career Accelerator. Over the next four years, this initiative will provide grants and tailored support to ten high-potential local partnerships across England. Each will receive three years of funding and coaching to develop place-based, school-centred models that improve outcomes for children. These projects will help us learn more about what works—and why—and will shape a national case for change.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantee’s website: www.reachfoundation.uk

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is proud to support PBE, a charity using economics to improve wellbeing and deliver greater impact across the social sector.

PBE uses economic analysis and the unique insight from our connection to the social sector to help charities, funders, firms and policymakers tackle the causes and consequences of low wellbeing in the UK. It supports small and medium-sized charities with impact evaluation and economic analysis, and conducts original research to influence policy and unlock the potential of the social sector.

This three-year core funding grant is enabling PBE to:

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: pbe.co.uk

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is pleased to support medConfidential to help ensure data projects from outside the NHS are increasingly consensual, safe, and transparent.

medConfidential is an independent non-partisan organisation campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care, which seeks to ensure that every flow of data into, across and out of the NHS and care system is consensual, safe, and transparent. Founded in January 2013, medConfidential works with patients and medics, service users and care professionals, drawing advice from a network of experts.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation supported an 18 month project to support Trusted Research Environments and demonstrate that Good TREs Work for good research, good ethics and good medical care.

Making good decisions is often unrecognised and decried by those who would benefit from lower safety around data. This project will highlight best practices and assess where environments have chosen to operate in the quality spectrum.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: medConfidential.org or GoodTREsWork.com 

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is supporting Imperial College London in delivering a transformative Maths Transition programme in White City, helping primary school pupils build strong foundations in mathematics.

Imperial College London’s Outreach Teams work across schools, communities, and public platforms to inspire engagement with STEM, raise aspirations among underrepresented groups, and build lasting connections through innovative programmes, workshops, and events.

The Maths Transition programme aims to support pupils to develop strong foundations in maths at primary school, and to support maths progression and attainment at early secondary level.

The national data shows that gaps between disadvantaged pupils and their peers emerge early at primary school, widening through secondary school and impacting on success at GCSE, A-level and beyond.

Working with pupils to support them in reaching a solid foundation in maths during Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 will have a long-lasting impact on their attainment and chance of future success.

The day was described as “fun and enjoyable with lots of hands-on experience,” by the school pupils, and highlights included making model football pitches and chocolate factories to scale. The pupils were thrilled to showcase their creations to the Outreach staff.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/schools-outreach/wohl-reach-out-lab/

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is pleased to support Get Further to provide tuition for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are retaking their GCSE English and maths.

Every year, 1 in 3 students in England leave school without a standard pass (grade 4 or above) in GCSE English and maths. This rises to more than half of students from disadvantaged backgrounds (Department for Education, 2023). Without these qualifications, young people are significantly more likely to drop out of education and are locked out of key professions, apprenticeships, and university courses.

Get Further exists to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in further education to secure gateway English and maths qualifications that unlock opportunities and set them up to thrive in education and training, the workplace and in life.

Get Further is proud to be the only non-profit tutoring organisation working exclusively in the further education (FE) sector. It focuses its efforts here because the FE sector supports disproportionately disadvantaged cohorts, and yet the sector is typically underserved by educational interventions. Get Further is committed to working with colleges to provide students who cannot afford private tuition with access to its programme for free, ensuring that a student’s background is never a barrier to receiving the tailored support they need to succeed.

So far, the Mohn Westlake Foundation have supported more than 3,000 students to take part in Get Further’s tuition programmes. After attending one term of tuition, their pass rates are 77% higher for GCSE English and 70% higher for GCSE maths, enabling them to access a wider range of employment opportunities and thrive in life.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: getfurther.org.uk

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The Mohn Westlake Foundation is pleased to announce a new partnership with East London Arts & Music (ELAM) over the next three years to support young people from underrepresented communities to access a free specialist creative education in Music, Games Design or Film and TV studies.

As one of the fastest growing sectors, the economic importance of the creative industries is undeniable, but unfortunately so is its lack of diversity. ELAM exists to accelerate progress towards a more equitable creative industry and is proud to be one of the most diverse creative colleges in the UK. The school is a world-class, Ofsted ‘Outstanding’, sixth form college that opened in September 2014 in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

ELAM works hard to engage with traditionally underrepresented prospective students and their parents, attracting young people from almost every London Borough and beyond. With support from The Mohn Westlake Foundation, ELAM will scale this activity by growing the number of visits to schools and youth groups and creating more targeted events to promote ELAM to young people from target demographics. 

To ensure ELAM is able to provide access and opportunity for all, the Mohn Westlake Foundation will also support an Industry Engagement and Alumni Careers programme, providing essential access to Masterclasses, industry mentors, work experience placements, industry briefs and showcases allowing ELAM to better equip their young people with the critical connections, practical experience and knowledge they will need to thrive in the creative industries. It will also enable ELAM to support its growing alumni network, helping them to secure employment, paid internships or further training after graduation.

Additionally The Mohn Westlake Foundation will help to remove financial barriers to participation through much-needed travel bursaries, discretionary free meals and 1:1 instrument and vocal tuition. 

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantee’s website: elam.co.uk