Grant Making
Some of the charities we have supported since 2015
The Lujenna Educational Trust has developed multi-year relationships with many of the charities listed below
Amantani UK
Amantani is a charity supporting the education of rural children in the Ccorca region of Peru. We have provided funds for their Pathways programme enabling school leavers to prepare for further education and/or employment.
Cambridge Junction
Cambridge Junction is a performing arts venue in Cambridge with an active outreach programme and works with many local charities. We supported the Contemporary Youth Choir.
Cambridge Literary Festival
Cambridge Literary Festival holds book festivals twice a year in Cambridge. We have helped their children’s outreach programme by enabling primary school visits to events and access to library events.
Cambridge Science Centre
Cambridge Science Centre is an activities-based science support centre aiming to give young people of all backgrounds hands-on experience in STEM subjects. We have supported two of their projects at local schools.
Country Trust
The Country Trust is a national charity connecting socially disadvantaged children with farms and food. We have supported this programme at Dogsthorpe Academy in Peterborough.
Farm School Exmoor
Farm School Exmoor is a farmer initiative to allow children educational visits to a working farm. We have supported two local schools to make these visits.
Imperial College
Imperial College is one of the world’s leading universities: we supported the establishment of a Maths Homework Club for schools in the White City area of London, with volunteer students as tutors.
Jacaranda UK Foundation
Jacaranda UK Foundation is a charity supporting the education of orphans caused by Aids in Malawi. We have provided funding for school desks and chairs at the Jacaranda Vocational College and funding for a girls’ STEM programme.
Olive Academy
The Olive Academies provide schooling for excluded children. We have provided funding to upgrade the health and beauty facilities at the Academy in Wisbech.
ReachOut
ReachOut works with disadvantage children working in partnership with schools to provide volunteer mentors. We have supported the ReachOut Club programme in London.
School Home Support
School Home Support is a well-established charity enabling children to get the best out of school with strategies for schools and families to maximise attendance and fulfilment at schools. We have funded programmes providing protective support for girls and providing digital equipment during the covid pandemic.
School Readers
Schoolreaders is a charity that provides volunteers to go into schools and give one-to-one support to children who need extra help with their reading skills. We provided funds for the charity to expand their work into Somerset.
Swavesey Schools
In our home village, we provided funds to the Primary School to purchase books for early years phonic reading and to the Village College Secondary School for informal/playground sports facilities.
Team Up
Team Up is a London based charity which aims to improve the educational achievement of 9-16 year old children from low-income backgrounds; we supported their Dream Big programme which enables schoolchildren to have structured visits to universities and pairs them with student mentors.
Treloar’s
Treloar’s School is a specialist school for disabled children. We provided some funding for their hoist replacement programme.
Villiers Park Educational Trust
Villiers Park is a social mobility charity helping teenage children from disadvantaged backgrounds improve their academic, personal and employability skills. We have supported their Future Leaders programme in Cambridgeshire and their work with the North Cambridge Academy.