Frequently asked questions
Please note, we will add to this list if and when we receive queries from applicants.
Does my project need to address all four themes?
No. Your project only needs to address one of the themes. You can, however, address more than one theme within your project if that is appropriate to the challenges that you are seeking to address.
We are a specialist education organisation, are we eligible to apply?
Specialist educational organisations can be involved in a bid; however, the lead applicant will need to be one of the organisations listed in our programme guidance.
Can we work with external consultants or other organisations to help deliver our project?
You can work with external organisations to deliver your project. If you would like to do this, then you will need to include this information in your application. If any of the requested funding will be allocated to another organisation, a partnership agreement is required. For more details, refer to the ‘working with others’ section of our guidance.
Can funding be used to provide private ADHD and ASD assessments?
No. This would duplicate NHS statutory provision.
Can MOD schools apply?
No. MOD schools are not eligible to apply under this programme.
We only have five service children; can we apply as a single school?
Those with less than ten service children are encouraged to apply as a cluster. Further information can be found in the guidance.
Why do you ask us to gather data specifically on service children and not the whole school population?
This funding is exclusively for service children, provided by the Ministry of Defence. The Trust collects impact data to share with the MOD.
We are a DCS ran school located overseas, are we eligible to apply?
As DCS are ran by MOD and the service support programme funding is MOD, we are not able to accept applications from these facilities.
Awards made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Acorn Education Trust | Closing the Primary Attainment Gap | ‘Closing the Primary Attainment Gap’ will improve service pupils’ academic attainment by employing timely, diagnostic testing, delivery of targeted intervention programmes, and a dedicated staff member. The project will also enhance pupil wellbeing by addressing educational issues through effective family liaison. | England/South West | £49,517 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | All Saints Church School | Dandelion Forces Retreat | This project will provide additional support and give help with social and emotional development of children from service families through a course of all-weather Forest School sessions, facilitated by external providers. A yurt will be purchased as an engaging space for this project. | England/South West | £18,663 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Argyll & Bute Council | Resources for Cluster Schools | The ‘Resources for Cluster Schools’ project will facilitate the inclusion and support of service children in schools across Helensburgh through targeted resources. | Scotland | £6,100 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Beaumont Community Primary school | Hadleigh Schools Emotional Wellbeing Hub | This project will provide ELSA practitioners, across a cluster of schools, to support the emotional, social and wellbeing needs of service pupils. | England/East | £46,440 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Boringdon Primary School | Boringdon Heroes | ‘Boringdon Heroes’ will support service children’s emotional and mental wellbeing by developing after school clubs and enrichment activities. | England/South West | £5,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Carterton Community College | Raising Reading & Cultural Capital | ‘Raising Reading and Cultural Capital’ will provide additional, targeted support for children from service families with additional needs. The project will improve the life chances of service pupils through identifying and closing attainment gaps; mentoring and tuition. | England/South East | £25,725 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Clanfield CE Primary School | Music and nurture | The project will ddress the individual needs of service children on roll, providing a valuable resource to support those children who have regular change in their lives and fill the gaps in learning. A fluid home/school link will be continued. | England/South East | £5,500 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Colerne CE Primary School | Empowering Colerne SEND Service children | Colerne is in the top 5% of schools in relation to the number of children who are directly impacted by military movement. This project will ensure that each service child can reach their full academic potential and through early assessment and child-centred intervention to help plug any gaps in their understanding and knowledge. | England/South West | £37,763 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cottesmore Academy | Viking Support Project | The project will enable Cottesmore Academy to provide additional support using child-centred assessments and targeted support to ensure children entering the school transition smoothly and their individual needs can be quickly identified and supported. | England/East | £43,367 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £50,000 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £8,340 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Danesfield School | Reading Champions | This project will provide additional support for service children who have Dyslexia, including initial screening and the identification of further additional needs. ‘Reading Champions’ will offer targeted, individual support to help children achieve good educational outcomes. | England/South East | £44,755 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Dishforth Airfield Community Primary School | Effectively supporting communication needs. | This project will enable Dishforth Airfield Community Primary School to provide additional support for service children with additional and complex communication needs, through early identification, child-centred support, and staff professional development. | England/North East | £34,847 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Edith Weston Academy | Supporting our service pupils | This project will allow service pupils to access a supportive nurturing environment that supports their transitions and identifies gaps, facilitating pupils to make good progress and achieve their potential. | England/East | £60,482 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Five Acres Primary School | Developing The Meadow | ‘Developing The Meadow’ aims to improve outcomes for service children with additional needs by providing additional support. The project will fund the appointment of a teacher for one year to devise and implement a bespoke curriculum; train teaching assistants and develop assessment systems. | England/South East | £32,500 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Fordham C of E (C) Primary School | Enabling the gifts and talents | This project will identify and nurture the gifts and talents of service children, across a cluster of three rural primary schools. Holistic activities will help nurture their talents, helping children to build their confidence, thrive and flourish. | England/East | £61,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £72,098 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Harwell Community Primary School | Didcot schools service collaboration | This project will fund the employment of an experienced and nurturing staff member to work across a cluster of schools, to provide additional support for Service children. They will bring small cohorts of service children together, building resilience and confidence, and improving self-esteem and wellbeing. | England/South East | £44,188 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £15,000 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Kinloss Primary School (The Moray Council) | LV - MASK | This project will provide targeted, ongoing support through early intervention for service children who either have a diagnosis for additional support needs or are going through a diagnostic process. | Scotland | £19,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £64,835 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Latchmere School | Dedicated Readers | This project will provide additional support for service children whose reading is below the expected age-related standard. ‘Dedicated Readers’ aims to help close an attainment gap between service and non-service pupils. | England/South East | £30,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Le Cateau Community Primary School, Catterick Garrison | Garrison ASSIST Project (GAP) PLUS | This project builds on earlier work; and will help to develop better engagement between service families and school leadership. 'Garrison ASSIST Project (GAP) PLUS’ will establish a whole school- ‘SEND for service children’ model and resources-across a cluster of eight schools, with a high percentage of service pupils. Learning from this project will also be made available to other educational establishments. | England/North East | £80,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Linkwood Primary School - Moray Council Education | Armed Forces Adventurers | ‘Armed Forces Adventurers’ will launch a robust infrastructure for a ‘Service Children Support’ framework, across a cluster of four schools, supporting and promoting the inclusion of all service families within the school and wider community. The focus is on ensuring no service child is disadvantaged due to their parent’s mobility/separation | Scotland | £70,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Llantwit Major School | Supporting wellbeing through languages | The ‘Supporting Wellbeing through Languages’ project will support service families and children across a cluster of schools, by supporting them in developing second languagesand mental resilience. | Wales | £80,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Mount Street Junior School | Improving Emotional and Social outcomes | ‘Improving Emotional and Social Outcomes’ will improve service children’s outcomes through an inclusive and supportive workstream to enable service children to become emotionally and socially resilient, through improved wellbeing. | Wales | £25,238 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Oxfordshire County Council, Learning & School Improvement | Service pupils in Small Schools | This project will engage with leaders, in target schools, to share evidence-based provision through the ‘Thriving Lives Toolkit’. It will also hold a targeted event to share good practice and improve provision for service children across multiple schools. | England/South East | £44,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Portsmouth City Council | Supporting Service children in schools | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South East | £6,090 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Powys County Council | Improving outcomes for Service children | This project aims to improve outcomes for service children in reading/phonics through offering additional support through early, child-centred assessments and targeted interventions, helping close gaps in attainment. for Service children in reading/phonics. | Wales | £60,250 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Prendergast CP School | Getting it right for all! | This project aims to improve Service children’s educational outcomes, emotional health and wellbeing through the provision of two designated members of staff. Engaging with families will also mitigate against against mobility and isolation, helping families integrate into their community. | Wales | £43,996 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £43,554 | |||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | RAF Benson Community Primary School | Per conatum ad astra | This project will offer targeted, transitional and additional support to close the attainment gap for service pupils with increased mobility. This project will ensure gaps in knowledge and understanding are quickly identified and addressed through rapid support, enabling service children to fulfil their potential. | England/South East | £41,400 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | RAF Leeming CP School | Rapidly Assessing and Addressing SEND. | The project will provide additional support to a high level of service pupils with additional needs. ‘Rapidly Assessing and Addressing SEND', will develop and deliver targeted interventions, improve adaptive practice in classrooms through CPD, and create a strategic oversight of need. | England/North East | £55,945 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Sandlings Primary School | Sandlings Primary School Reading hub | This project will fund a librarian for two days a week, to create a community reading hub for service children. The project aims to improve service children’s reading attainment through reading engagement and enjoyment beyond the classroom. | England/East | £20,052 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Faith's Church of England Infant and Nursery School | Reach for the Stars | This project will provide service children with additional support across the curriculum, as well as nurture and social activities, through both a Nurture Lead and a dedicated teaching assistant. | England/East | £31,113 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Gerardine School (The Moray Council) | Additional Support Needs Targeted Intervention | The project will allow for robust assessments to be administered quickly and inform early targeted intervention for Service children with additional support needs, especially when they have barriers to learning and are new to the school community. | Scotland | £77,400 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Mary's Primary school | Supporting our Service Children (Dandelions) | This project will provide additional support for service children, who are struggling to meet age related outcomes, through a dedicated support worker. The support worker will support and include service families in school life and deliver a program to support mental health and positive behaviour. | England/West Midlands | £24,337 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Paul's CE Primary School, Hereford | Lugg Education Action Group LEAG | This project will offer targeted additional support through small group after school tutoring, in conjunction with after school club access, to service children. | England/West Midlands | £8,310 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Thomas Aquinas Multi Academy Trust | Smaller primary schools project | This project will support one form entry schools, which are not in city locations, to identify and effectively support the needs of service children within their settings. The ‘Smaller Primary Schools Project’ will facilitate targeted support and raise attainment outcomes for Service children, across a cluster of three schools. | England/East | £39,944 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Talavera Junior School | Talavera Families Support Hub | This project will support the needs of vulnerable children with additional needs from service families. It will efficiently and effectively reduce service children’s barriers to learning through engaging with additional support service and providing high quality provision, with high parental support and engagement at the heart of the project. | England/South East | £63,310 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The Thomas Adams School | The Happiness Project | This project aims to increase resilience and positive mindset of service children through ‘The Happiness Programme’. A qualified Happiness Coach will deliver training on emotional self-regulation, including identifying and managing stress and positive mindset tools, leading to increased happiness and better educational and life outcomes. | England/West Midlands | £5,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Thorney Island Community Primary School | Every Child A Writer | This project will provide service children with intensive, targeted support to help identify and close attainment gaps in phonics and writing, using qualified teachers; additional support staff and professional development opportunities. | England/South East | £47,832 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Veritas Primary Academy | Early Intervention to support learning | ‘Early Intervention to Support Learning’ will create a sensory room for service pupils with additional needs, to help address their sensory needs. The project will also employ a new reading and phonics scheme, across Reception and Year 1, enabling bespoke interventions and improved educational outcomes. | England/West Midlands | £32,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Wavell Community Schools' Federation (Infant & Nursery and Junior Federation) | Bespoke phonics for Service children. | This project will build a team of designated ‘Phonics Champions’ to provide additional support to service children. Champions will assess the prior phonic knowledge of children entering the school and will plug the gaps for any service children working below age related expectation in phonics and early reading. | England/North East | £33,883 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Wavell Community Schools' Federation (Infant & Nursery and Junior Federation) | Service Children Support Advisers | This project will provide a dedicated, nurturing programme of additional support to help service children settle into school effectively. A highly skilled team of ‘Service Children Support Advisers’ will be utilised to facilitate effective school transitions, in conjunction with offering a point of contact to support families of Service children with Special Educational Needs. | England/North East | £35,000 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The William Alvey School | Time to Talk | This project will offer face-to-face support and counselling to service children who are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing. It will act as a triage service to further services if necessary. | England/East | £16,765 |
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Northern Ireland | £77,250 | ||
| 2023 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The Rutland Learning Trust | RLT Champion Project | The Rutland Learning Trust consists of 12 primary schools across Rutland and Northamptonshire, which collectively have over 220 pupils with a parent serving in the Armed Forces. This project will create an extensive programme of support for Service pupils which will include employing a Service Pupils Champion and Service Pupils Tutor. | England/East | £48,300 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Aberdeenshire Council | The Aspire Project | This project will provide deeper awareness about the lived experience of service pupils across primary and secondary schools and will create of a framework of support and intervention. This will improve pupil attainment, engagement, positive destinations and pupil wellbeing, allowing the closure of any gaps. | Scotland | £40,950 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Argyll & Bute Council | Supporting Armed Forces Young People | Argyll & Bute Council will provide academic and wellbeing support across education establishments in Helensburgh & Lomond. The project will offer support with literacy, numeracy, health and wellbeing, transitions and deployment. | Scotland | £73,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Blackpool and The Fylde College | Achieve your potential | Bringing together a consortium of Further Education colleges in Lancashire, ‘Achieve Your Potential’ will test the impact of providing personalised and targeted support on the retention, attainment and progression of Service children aged 16-18. | England/North West | £77,753 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cambrian Learning Trust | Service Pupils Targeted Support Programme | The project will provide schools with access to a qualified teacher tutor who will provide focused intensive intervention support for individuals and small groups. The focus will be on narrowing gaps in achievement in English and Maths across the transition from primary to secondary school. | England/South East | £80,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Carnagill Primary School | H&R Service Families Autism Project | This project will support schools and post-16 settings in meeting the unique needs of service family pupils with autism or autistic traits. Specialist outreach visits and formal courses will be available, empowering families and leaving a lasting impact on school and settings staff teams. | England/North East | £78,840 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Colerne CE Primary School | Empower Colerne SEND Service children | This project will continue Colerne CE Primary School's work around supporting SEND service children, exploring opportunities for outreach and sharing good practice with other military schools. | England/South West | £40,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Firrhill High School | Attainment Support Programme (ASP) | The Attainment Support Programme (ASP) will close an attainment gap between service and non-service pupils. This individualised and targeted programme will support service pupils through mentoring and high quality targeted teaching. | Scotland | £80,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Forres Academy | FAAMS | Forres Academy will utilise Family Link Workers to support the varying needs of service pupils and their families across their three schools, ensuring positive engagements which will increase wellbeing, attendance, engagement, attainment and achievement. | Scotland | £80,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £77,526 | |||
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Kinloss Primary School (The Moray Council) | Forres Small and Big Project | The project will build upon previous good work, existing academic data, research and lived experiences to support targeted academic, social and emotional interventions and ASN needs. This will ensure service children have access to equitable support across rural schools and isolated schools when experiencing the challenges of exceptional mobility and deployments. | Scotland | £80,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Kiwi Primary School | Kiwi Safe Spaces Project | This project will support service children at Kiwi Primary School who experience challenges in terms of their social, emotional and mental wellbeing to develop strategies which will help them regulate their emotions and break down barriers to learning. | England/South West | £40,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Learning Academies Trust | Supporting Service children to succeed | The project will fund a mentor to provide targeted learning and academic intervention for military children who are not working at age related expectations. Support will also be available for those struggling with their social, emotional mental health needs, particularly during periods of transition and/or deployment. | England/South West | £80,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Llantwit Major School | Service pupils equity programme | This project aims to identify bespoke needs of service children and address them within small groups or individually. Across the cluster, the project will enhance readiness for learning, and close gaps in attainment where they exist. | Wales | £79,063 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Lord Deramore's Primary School | South York Service Children Champions | Creation of a cluster project across three maintained primary schools serving small cohorts of forces families in the South of York. The project will train three Service Children Champions who will champion forces families and carry out weekly 'Little Trooper' social/emotional/mental health interventions, early SEND screening and additional academic tutoring. | England/North East | £27,784 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Pencoed Primary School | Supporting basic skills and transition. | This project will support the development of speech and language, literacy and numeracy, wellbeing and transition across a cluster of schools. It will do this by employing specialist staff and support staff for the delivery of bespoke programmes of support and developing a programme for service children's transition. | Wales | £40,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | RAF Leeming CP School | Service Pupil Progression and Support | The project will provide the necessary academic and emotional support for service pupils by delivering adaptive teaching practices, precision teaching interventions and targeted input. SEND learners will be prioritised throughout. CPD and support will also be offered to cluster schools with small service cohorts in meeting these needs. | England/North East | £67,317 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Christopher's CE School | Small schools Cluster Project | Three schools working in partnership to provide targeted interventions for service children. The aim is to train staff across the team to deliver service pupil centred interventions in order to meet the needs of small cohorts. | England/South East | £15,000 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Gerardine School (The Moray Council) | Targeted Support Intervention | This project will work with service children with additional support needs, especially where there are barriers to learning and/or transitioning into school. | Scotland | £79,728 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Thorney Island Community Primary School | Together Everyone Achieves More | As a school with a majority of service pupils, Thorney Island Community Primary School will share the successes they have had and train staff within other schools to deliver specialised programmes to small cohorts of service children, benefitting the wellbeing of more service pupils and their families. | England/South East | £77,570 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Wigan and Leigh College | Greater Manchester Colleges Student Support | This project recognises the hidden and compelling needs of service children in Further Education in Greater Manchester. Often these families are in small cohorts and have a serving parent regularly away from the family home. This project will bring together colleges to improve understanding and provide targeted support. | England/North West | £79,464 |
| 2024 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Ysgol Golwg Pen y Fan | Personalised support for Service children. | This project will support service children with their personalised needs including social and emotional, multilingual, ALN and targeted support for learning as they transition in and out of schools in Wales. The project will promote and share practice, building relationships and experiences. | Wales | £78,020 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Angus Council | Voices of Armed Forces Children | This project will build a strong community and sense of belonging for armed forces children. Creating a podcast will provide the opportunity to bond over shared experiences and raise awareness to others of the lived experience of armed forces children. This will help increase social connection and enhance emotional wellbeing. | Scotland | £20,737 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Brecon High School | TIS Informed Support | The project will allocate funding for a Trauma Informed Schools (TIS) trained staff member to provide targeted, one to one support for service pupils with the greatest level of need. | Wales | £23,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Carnagill Primary School | Garrison Nurture and Assessment Centre | The school will set up a nurture-based provision for pupils with social, emotional & mental health needs at Catterick Garrison. This will follow Nurture UK principles and offer a period for vulnerable pupils to access the provision where they will be supported with transition back to their school. | England/North East | £149,999 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cheriton Primary School | Speech, Language and Communication Provision | This project aims to establish a model of provision that will support the significant number of pupils with speech, language and communication needs that are not met within existing mainstream core standards. | England/South East | £150,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cherry Tree Academy Marham | Participate, Respect, Include, Develop, Empower | The project will support service pupils with SEND or SEMH by providing targeted learning, wellbeing, and transition support. The academy will address the challenges of mobility and deployment through inclusive education, resilience-building activities, and tailored interventions, ensuring every child thrives academically, socially, and emotionally. | England/East | £45,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Clarendon Juniors School | The Happy Talk Project | This project aims to provide consistent sustainable support for service children who often struggle to be understood, affecting their learning, friendships, and overall progress. By addressing the challenges caused by frequent relocations, the project will deliver trained teaching assistants, standardised speech and language assessment tools, therapist supervision and educational psychologist input to ensure early identification of needs. | England/South West | £95,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | CLLE Midlothian Council | Midlothian Informed Personal Support Approaches | The MIPSA will creatively engage to understand special educational needs of military children in Midlothian, co-designing growth experiences and personalised programmes to boost confidence, resilience, academic achievements and reduce isolation. The project will offer motivational coaching, tutoring, and youth group support, helping to create networks where young people can share experiences and shape future learning pathways. The project will focus on key areas such as numeracy, literacy and cognitive ability, ensuring service children are supported to become capable and successful learners. | Scotland | £133,550 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cornwall Council (Early Years Service) | Military Roots- for secondary pupils | This project will empower service children by fostering peer connections, building confidence, and delivering aspiration workshops that strengthen educational relationships and help close academic gaps cause by mobility. Veteran-led sessions will support the development of resilience, while tailored career guidance will help shape future pathways. In additions, community events will create vital support networks for professionals, families and young people. | England/South West | £149,686 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The Corvus Learning Trust | Trust-wide Service Pupils Support Champion | This project will create a new Trust-wide staff role to address the impact of family mobility/deployment and separation on service pupils' education. The Service Pupils Support Champion will build processes and understanding in seven schools and provide direct support to service pupils to improve their transition and pastoral experiences. | England/South East | £67,900 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Cottesmore Academy | Prioritising SEND! | Cottesmore aims to enhance SEND provision by creating a dedicated SEND room and increasing SENDCO time. With over twice the national average of SEND pupils, the academy aims to prioritise support, staff training, and inclusion to meet complex needs and ensure every child receives the help they require. | England/East | £145,206 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Ebor Academy Trust | Teacher support for SEND pupils | This project will raise awareness and upskill school staff and other professionals on SEND within the military community. A training programme will be developed and offered to schools to prepare them with the information, knowledge and understanding to actively support the unique needs and challenges of service children with SEND. | England/North East | £56,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Elgin Academy | Elgin Academy Service Families Project | The Academy will provide a pupil support worker who will build positive relationships, collaborate with key staff, work in partnership with external agencies, promote the identification of forces families, promote community understanding of the needs of service children, and signpost pupils and their parents to support. | Scotland | £25,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Guston Church of England Primary School | Language and Communication Provision | The school intend to establish a model of provision that will support the significant number of pupils with speech, language and communication needs within the service community they serve, that are not met within existing mainstream core standards. | England/South East | £150,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Haverfordwest High VC School | Service Children's Mentor | The project aims to measure the academic progress of service children and the effectiveness of interventions and provide support to those schools within the cluster that have small numbers of service children on roll. | Wales | £70,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Hillingdon Council | Empowering Hillingdon’s Service Children | The project aims to deliver tailored academic, social, and SEND-focused support for military-connected pupils through two service child ambassadors. They will coordinate proven borough wide interventions, build resilience and ensure continuity amid frequent mobility. It will strengthen partnerships between schools, families, and key services, reducing learning gaps and supporting wellbeing. | England/London | £149,560 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Hopeman Primary School | Children’s Resilience and Wellbeing Support | The project provides tailored wellbeing support, focusing on emotional and social development. It aims to improve overall wellbeing, which enhances learning outcomes and academic success. The targeted assistance will build emotional regulation, self-esteem, resilience, essential skills, and a strong support network to help service pupils navigate change effectively. | Scotland | £91,200 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Idsall School | Service Pupil Programme | The Service Pupil Programme will provide targeted emotional support to service pupils through weekly sessions, recaps, personal folders, and dedicated sessions for teaching staff and parents, addressing challenges related to family mobility, deployment, separation, and special educational needs to improve their wellbeing and academic performance. | England/West Midlands | £15,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Northern Ireland | £11,958 | |||
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Learning Community Trust | Beyond The Uniform | The project will support the educational engagement, wellbeing and mental health of service children. This will help mitigate the issues caused by separation from serving parents and higher rates of educational mobility, including for children who have special educational needs or disabilities, as well as supporting engagement in school. | England/West Midlands | £103,952 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Lulworth & Winfrith CE Primary School | Serving those in Service | The project aims to raise the profile of service families and their needs. An experienced teacher will be made available to conduct service family drop-ins and workshops as well as to lead high quality, targeted booster and catch-up groups to those service children who need it. | England/South West | £31,664 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Moray Council | Growing Roots | Growing Roots strengthens resilience, wellbeing and belonging among service pupils in Moray through inclusive outdoor learning. It will also build long-term capacity by training school staff to embed armed forces inclusive practice through nature-based education. | Scotland | £100,044 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Moray Council - Bishopmill Primary School | Magic Military Pupil Support | The project will enable a Home-School Link Worker dedicated to supporting military children, helping to close the attainment gap caused by frequent school moves due to deployment. It will also focus on developing emotional literacy and regulation strategies, including the creation of a transferable resource booklet to support both current and future military children as they transition between schools. | Scotland | £11,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Pembrokeshire County Council | Project Connect: Building Trauma-Sensitive Communities | Project Connect ensures all Family Engagement Officers complete the Trauma Informed Schools Diploma, strengthening their ability to support service children, families, and school communities. By embedding trauma sensitive approaches, the project aims to build resilience, promote wellbeing, and create safer, more connected environments for all learners | Wales | £62,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Rushall CE Primary School | SpellForce | This project will address spelling achievement gaps among service pupils by using reliable assessment data to deliver targeted spelling instruction. It will provide specialised training for teachers in the planning, delivery and assessment of the evidence-based spelling programme. The expected outcomes include measurable improvements in spelling proficiency and the sustainable implementation of effective teaching strategies. | England/South West | £9,268 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The Rutland Learning Trust | Engage, Excite, Unite! | The Rutland Learning Trust will enhance support for service pupils, focusing on closing attainment gaps, SEMH and SEND interventions, and equitable access for small cohorts. The project will provide specialist staff, targeted interventions, training, and resources, complement existing provision while ensure sustainability through best practice embedding and continued collaboration. | England/East | £75,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Gerardine School (The Moray Council) | The Wellbeing Project | The school will provide support to address challenges that arise for service children, particularly those affected by family mobility, deployment and separation. This will increase resilience, provide emotional support and a sense of belonging. This is key at present due to increase deployment and the increased arrival of service personnel at RAF Lossiemouth. | Scotland | £140,640 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Mary's C of E Primary school, Credenhill | Academic Support Programme | The project will address the academic gap between service pupils and non-service pupils and support children whose maths academic attainment has been impacted by mobility and deployment, with a focus on children in years 4-6. | England/West Midlands | £19,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | St Nicholas CE Primary School | St Nicholas SEND Service Pupils | This project aims to reduce barriers to identifying additional needs of service pupils so that bespoke support can be provided more swiftly. This will be achieved through targeted CPD for staff, the purchasing of a range of resources, including diagnostic tools, and providing personalised interventions. | England/East | £35,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | The Stonehenge School | Inclusive Support for Service Pupils | This project supports service pupils with SEND by providing early assessment, access arrangements, targeted academic interventions, and pastoral provision. Activities will include assistive technology workshops, literacy and numeracy catch-up sessions, testing, and both off/on-site alternative curriculum options. The aim is to reduce barriers to learning and ensure needs are identified and addressed in a timely and effective manner. | England/South West | £113,000 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Thorney Island Community Primary School | Everyone Included and Supported | The school will provide additional time for the SENCo to support service families with children who have additional learning needs. It will also provide extra adult support to respond to needs identified early through a coordinated approach with external agencies. | England/South East | £76,978 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Torpoint Nursery and Infant school | Confident Communicators | The project will enable military children to become more confident communicators through strengthening their expressive language to help develop the relationships to feel secure within school. | England/South West | £8,200 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Waddington All Saints Academy | Service Children ‘Belonging’ Project | The project will deliver a three-strand approach to support military connected children at the academy. It will include the creation of a ‘belonging hub’ designed to ensure every military child feels seen, supported and included throughout their time at the school. Additionally, the project will address emotional and mental health needs of pupils – particularly issues related to attachment and anxiety by providing targeted interventions | England/East | £41,550 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Wavell School | Closing the Gap: Enhancing Outcomes | This project will improve the educational attainment of service children by providing targeted academic support, improved access to digital resources, and dedicated pastoral oversight. By creating a dedicated learning space, the deployment of a Specialist Learning Coach, and provision of tailored educational software, the project will offer ‘anytime, anywhere’ learning | England/South East | £78,642 |
| 2025 | Service Pupil Support Programme | Armed Forces Families Fund | Wimbish Primary Academy | Improving Educational and Social Outcomes | This project aims to identify the bespoke academic or social and emotional needs of service children through early identification of need on entry to school. Highly trained staff will be used to deliver pupil centred interventions and tutoring to close academic gaps and champion wellbeing and positive engagement. | England/East | £75,533 |
