Impact
- We have committed more than £9.4 million to projects since August 2000.
- This money is now helping more than 18,600 children from nearly 620 schools.
- We rigorously monitor and evaluate the projects we fund to ensure that they make a sustained and positive difference to the young lives they help. Click on the navigation bar above to find out more about our monitoring and evaluation procedures.
- To quantify the impact of the grants we make, SHINE’s trustees commissioned the London School of Economics to conduct research into our grant-making process and assess the level and type of outcomes that these grants delivered. For more information about the research and its findings, click on the navigation bar above.
- In December 2007, SHINE became the first ever grant-making trust to be recommended by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), an independent organisation that advises donors on the most effective charities in the UK. Click here to download NPC’s summary of SHINE. Download Now
Grants and Fundraising
- We expect to make grant commitments of up to £1.5 million in any one year.
- SHINE's Benefit Dinners have been held in November every year from 2001 to 2005 and, again, in 2007 and 2008. On average, each dinner for 500 people has raised in excess of £1 million net.
- SHINE's 10th Anniversary Benefit Dinner will return to the Roundhouse in North London on Thursday 12th November 2009 – click here to find out more.
- We now have a portfolio of events that take place regularly throughout the year. Click here to find out more about our events and the other ways in which you can help SHINE.
Children with poor reading skills are five times more likely to be excluded from school||One study found that 63% of pupils excluded from school had criminal convictions by the age of 24||Since August 2000, we have invested more than £9.4 million in projects in London and Manchester||This money is now helping more than 18,600 children from nearly 620 schools