John Lyon's charity Annual Report 2024 - Report - Page 5
HIGHLIGHTS FROM
LAST YEAR
£15.8 MILLION
AWARDED
in funding in 2023/24
6% increase on the previous year
FIVE-YEAR STRATEGY
April 2024 marked one year since
the Charity’s new Five-Year Strategy
came into effect, with the focus on
longer and larger grants
This is a 12% increase from 299
approved grants in 2022/23*
40% INCREASE IN
GRANTS OVER £40,000
The number of grants over
£40,000 has increased by 40%
from 2022/23 to 2023/24
FOUR NEW
PROGRAMME AREAS
56.5% OF NEW GRANTS AWARDED
IN INFORMAL EDUCATION
Formal Education, Informal
Education, Access to Education,
and Capacity Building
Most new grants were awarded in the
programme area of Informal Education,
totalling £3,270,400 across 189 grants
43% INCREASE
IN EXPENDITURE
under the Home-School-Community
Strategy, with grants totalling £4,484,013
*
334 APPROVED GRANTS
11% INCREASE
IN APPLICATIONS
received from 501 to 557*
Excludes grants awarded in 2022/23 by the Uplift Fund, which were additional funds made available to grantees due to the Cost-of-Living crisis
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