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By Ashley Cox
Our latest Giving Back window will close on Friday 28th February, thus any institutions with SEND/wellbeing/absenteeism funding needs are advised to complete their applications, as CPC prepares to bring more of your project proposals to life.
Reaffirming our remit as a registered charity, Giving Back is our flagship charitable initiative and has helped make a difference to education around the UK since its 2019 inception, evolving into what has become a seven-figure reinvestment programme.
Launched in November 2024, the current Giving Back funding window opened on Monday 6th January and our team has been welcoming applications from eligible CPC member institutions for the past seven weeks, as we target our following focus areas.
Supporting learners with special educational needs and disabilities
Improving physical and mental wellbeing
Combatting absenteeism in education
If you have a proposal or idea how CPC can tackle these issues for your institution, it's not yet too late to submit an application.
Be it a purchase or project, a special event or something else, CPC's Giving Back team is more than interested to hear from you.
Our evaluation panel for funding distribution is set to convene in the first half of March, but to be in with a chance of support, member institutions must have submitted their application information by the end of this working week (Friday 28th February).
Click here to complete a Giving Back application before the window closes on Friday, or here for further terms and details.
Looking for some last-minute inspiration? Here's just one of many institutions to have benefitted from Giving Back funding...
Registered members of Crescent Purchasing Consortium since April 2018, Zouch Academy in Tidworth, Wiltshire successfully applied for Giving Back financial support in our previous window. In this case, the money was spent on a variety of purchases:
Extra-readable Barrington Stoke books, improving access to reading for those pupils with dyslexia, or dyslexic tendencies.
A licence for Clicker to help pupils with writing, especially SEN students and those with English as an additional language.
Special scanning pens that can empower young learners to work independently, with greater confidence, while reading.
In their associated funding outcome report, the Academy noted its recognised Ofsted improvement in 2024 and cited "the support and resources we are able to provide our children through the funding that was provided by CPC" as a driver of this.
As for wellbeing, Giving Back made an important contribution to life at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington last year, providing over £9,000 in funding for a potentially invaluable 24/7 counselling app resource, as detailed in this short film...