The Scaling Award
Supporting Fair Education Alliance members to scale their impactful solutions
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In many cases, we know what works to improve children’s outcomes, but struggle with how to get these solutions to the schools, communities and children who need them most. At the end of their GCSEs, disadvantaged students in Blackpool, Derby and Sheffield are almost two years further behind than their disadvantaged peers in many London boroughs.
Many proven, impactful solutions are run by Fair Education Alliance members who have the appetite to scale but face critical challenges in doing so. These include maintaining high quality delivery at scale, having the right operations and governance, and having specialist local knowledge.
Scaling Award 2023 Winners
We’re proud to announce our Scaling Award Winners for 2023. We are confident that our Award Winners will collectively have a significant contribution to systemic change to end educational inequality and with the support of this Award will deepen their impact and scale to the areas of greatest need.
Our seven Scaling Award Winners are:
The 2023 Scaling Award winners are Get Further, Khulisa, Learning with Parents, Life Lessons, Magic Breakfast, Power2 and Villers Park Educational Trust.
Through the Scaling Award Programme, we provide tailored support to scale impactful solutions to reach every child who can benefit from them. Our approach centres on ensuring quality is maintained at scale, and we provide intensive support on impact and evaluation, financial sustainability, and personal and organisational leadership to enable that growth. We do this through a blend of direct consultancy, peer support from Fair Education Alliance members, and expert guidance from our supporters.
We are thrilled to welcome back two 2020 Scaling Award Winners to extend support for them for another two years, as they continue to scale their delivery.
Support our Award Winners
Over the next two years, we will be providing a range of support, advice, resources, mentoring and guidance to accelerate the impact and growth of our Award Winners.
We know that within our network we have the expertise, the experience and the skills to enable the Award Winners to reach more pupils in areas where their work is needed the most. We welcome support from our members and our supporters in the following three areas;
technical advisors (1:1 or deliver and expert session),
mentoring (we're looking for experienced mentors to work with our Award Winners as an ongoing relationship),
partner or collaborate with them to help them scale to a new area.
The Selection Process
Our Award Winners have been selected because they have the potential to have a significant impact upon our vision of ending educational inequality. But this is not a decision we have made alone.
Selection panels sat over February and March, drawing in amazing expertise from across the education sector, including representation from many of our members. We used rigorous criteria to assess vision alignment, impact, scale, sustainability and leadership, in order to decide to support the above 7 organisations.
Thank you to all our incredible Judges for all your support throughout the process.
Special thanks also to Marc Berryman from Credit Suisse who supported with financial due diligence and to Emma Colenbrander from Spring Impact who supported us to select our two 2020 Award Winners who will continue with two years of additional support.