Need

Some talented young people’s home circumstances prevent them from going to university - perhaps they have to care for a parent, work to support younger siblings, or come from a low income family.

Solution

One Degree More aims to support 30 students per year from across Wiltshire and Swindon to realise their dream of going to university.

Aims

To support 30 young disadvantaged people each year realise their dream of going to University.

Activities

» By working with local schools and organisations we will identify young people who need this help to fulfill their potential.

Success will be having a community of young people achieving their academic goals and going on to build careers in their chosen fields to the benefit of society as a whole.

Impact

Knowing that support is available will raise the aspirations of young people in the area to achieve greater things than they might have thought possible before. The success stories of each individual student will be testament to the importance of the funding they received through One Degree More.

Risk

We are able to support children from West Wiltshire already but would like to spread this to the whole county. We know there are beneficiaries waiting to be found but the risk is that the funding cannot be raised. We are making a significant investment in publicising the need and our campaign to meet it.

Reporting

Regular articles on our website and in newsletters and other publications about the students successes.

Budget - Project Cost: £2,500,000

Current Funding / Pledges

Source	Amount
Shuker Educational Fund	£2,500,000	Guaranteed

Location

The project is aimed at young people from the County of Wiltshire and The Borough of Swindon.

Beneficiaries

Students from the 40 secondary schools in the region

Why Us?

We are the largest independent grant maker to the voluntary sector in the area and already support young individuals in education through an existing legacy. We have built up expertise in the area of educational funding.

Read more about the Charity running this project.

People

Heidi Yorke

Project Director with oversight of the educational funding programme.

Chan Citroda

Grants Officer with responsibility for the educational funding programme. Chan has great links with local schools and experience of educational grant