SHINE: Support and Help IN EducationSHINE is an education charity that finds and backs exceptional teachers with the ideas to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.
We fund, evaluate and scale evidence-based innovations that raise attainment and strengthen schools across the North of England.
SHINE identifies, evaluates, and scales up the most promising educational ideas.
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SHINE connects donors with teachers to create new opportunities for disadvantaged children.
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SHINE uses evidence from its work to influence positive changes for children.
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SHINE's projects have made a significant impact.
In the last 12 months, we have helped more than 100,000 children across nearly 750 schools, while also providing support to over 26,000 parents and 5,220 teachers.
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Opportunities to join our network of successful practice across the North.
Discover our funding opportunities, the support we offer, and ways to participate in our programmes.
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It's easy to make a donation to SHINE. Even the smallest gift could make a big difference to the lives of children in the North.
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SHINE backs innovative learning approaches aimed at levelling the playing field for all children.
We fund school-based projects supporting children aged 0-19, addressing a wide range of areas such as reading, maths, science, verbal communication, parental engagement, school transitions, and wellbeing.
Find out moreMany from low-income homes start school without key skills, fall behind, and over half leave school without essential GCSEs in English and maths – limiting their opportunities for further education or good jobs.
The divide is particularly acute in parts of the North.
Project helping nursery practitioners use stories, mathematical talk and purposeful play to support young children’s early mathematics, communication and wider development.
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Ready, Let's Read & Write is helping children make rapid gains in reading while strengthening schools' capacity to deliver high-quality literacy teaching.
Impact, Let Teachers SHINE, News
£59,000 grant from SHINE will support the next phase of Jon Blackbourn's project, enabling him to create more content and evaluate its impact
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Applications for Let Teachers SHINE 2027 are officially open
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It’s amazing the sudden progress she has made. The way she will now speak to adults confidently and share her ideas. It’s just incredible.
Ever since starting reception, Eva had been very shy. She always avoided eye contact with adults and never put her hand up in class to share ideas. Both Eva’s mum and her teacher were acutely aware of how reluctant she was at school.
Khadija arrived in Bradford from Pakistan in 2019. She didn’t speak very much English and was particularly worried about how her youngest daughter, Hafsa, was going to manage at school.
Not knowing many people in the city, and with little knowledge of British education, Khadija tried her best to teach 3-year-old Hafsa with some resources she purchased herself, but it was a struggle.
Now in Year 8, Ethan is loving school and his confidence levels have soared, along with his attainment.
Ethan was bullied a lot at primary school and, despite being bright, he lacked confidence. His teachers were really worried about how the move to secondary might affect him.
