MISSION 44

Who they support

Mission 44 is a charitable Foundation founded by Sir Lewis Hamilton. Through grant-making, research and advocacy, we support young people from underrepresented backgrounds to succeed, by narrowing opportunity gaps in education, employment and wider society.

https://mission44.org/home/

info@mission44.org

02039844750

81
Rivington Street
LONDON
EC2A 3AY


Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1199596
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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  • In this period 39 donations have been made totalling £5,597,241 to 28 organisations
  • This grant maker is prepared to support unregistered organisations

Where are the Beneficiaries?
How big are the Recipients? ?
  • Average annual spending of registered grantees: £6,239,940
Which activities are being funded?
How old were the charities when supported?
Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)
Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
Paul Hamlyn Foundation 31% 39%
National Lottery Community Fund 23% 25%
Esmee Fairbairn 23% 25%
City Bridge Trust 21% 25%
BBC Children in Need 14% 18%
Comic Relief 14% 11%
Joseph Rowntree Foundation 13% 14%
John Lyon's Charity 12% 7%
Dulverton Trust 12% 7%
ZING 11% 11%
Sole supporter: 36% by number, 39% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount/
Spending
Recipient To be used for
23/07/2024 £8,640
NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COLLEGE Support the establishment of two STEM Success and Progression Funds’ (SSPF) to pilot bursary schemes for both secondary and college students that will address financial barriers for students to progress into STEM. The bursary schemes will include both direct individual bursaries and cohort bursaries that enable wrap-around support.
27/03/2024 £25,000
£215,802
MY LIFE MY SAY Grant awarded to My Life My Say to support the organisation to engage more young people across the UK in the democratic system, and get every young person registered to vote ahead of the 2024 General Election.
26/03/2024 £10,000
MILK HONEY BEES Capacity building grant to assist Milk Honey Bees in developing it's financial processes and updating it's website
26/03/2024 £10,000
£80,995
CAPE MENTORS Capacity building grant to assist Cape Mentors with it's development of it's theory of change and it's growth in comms operations
26/03/2024 £10,000
£447,902
THE TRAVELLER MOVEMENT Capacity building grant to support The Travelller Movement with it's recruitment policies and to update it's monitoring and evaluation processes
26/03/2024 £99,500
£765,976
FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE A grant extension to advance FEA's Youth Engagement strategy for 2024/2025, supporting member organisations to meaningfully involve young people in decision-making and enable young people to lead the change for a fairer education system.
26/03/2024 £311,658
£3,854,770
UPREACH Grant awarded to Upreach to support the organisation in introducing motorsports into the Engineering and Technology Springboard initiative, empowering high-potential undergraduates with an interest in engineering and technology to secure employment in motorsport and STEM.
26/03/2024 £10,000
DRIVEN BY US Capacity grant to support Driven By Us in engaging a consultant for the development of a 3-5-year strategic plan, conducting market research, identifying growth opportunities, and refining an approach to achieve long-term sustainability.
26/03/2024 £10,000
BLACK WOMEN IN SCIENCE Capacity grant grant to support Black Women in Science in growing its grassroots network into a more structured entity that subsequently permits a pivot from volunteer-based to full-time employees.
26/03/2024 £178,545
ASSOCIATION FOR BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY ENGINEERS ( AFBE-UK) Grant awarded to AFBE to support the organisation to continue to expand reach, programmes and services in support of STEM career progression for young people from ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
26/03/2024 £50,000
STEVENAGE BOROUGH COUNCIL To continue to support increasing pathways for young people into STEM and increasing early work experience opportunities for young people in motorsports.
31/01/2024 £100,000
£80,995
CAPE MENTORS Grant awarded to Cape Mentors to support the implemention of the next phase of their strategic plans including recruitment, development of a CRM and updating their theory of change.
31/01/2024 £50,000
MILK HONEY BEES Grant awarded to Milk Honey bees to develop its vision, mission and values and to develop a training programme on how to support young black girls at risk of exclusion.
01/01/2024 £50,000
£1,300,405
THE DIFFERENCE Grant awarded to The Difference for a six-month period to support the formation of the “Whose Losing Learning” Coalition.
11/12/2023 £10,000
£1,244,727
THE ADVOCACY ACADEMY Capacity Building grant will support TAA to overhaul current monitoring and evaluation processes - a crucial step toward better articulating their impact and strengthening the organisation’s infrastructure, influence and reach.
02/10/2023 £10,000
£365,000
REKINDLE Capacity Building grant will support Rekindle to build a new website to improve resources for young people and attract stakeholders and to secure consultancy to assist with scaling.
17/07/2023 £260,362
£21,691,123
CORAM Grant transferred from M44-PEF01. Funding will scale the impact of a strand of work focused on preventing exclusions and it's harmful consequences on young people.
07/07/2023 £125,000
£447,902
THE TRAVELLER MOVEMENT To support the Traveller Movement's aim to reduce exclusions for the Gypsy Roma and Traveller young people. It will fund a part-time Policy Officer, stakeholder and policy engagement activities and resources, a part-time Caseworker and overheads.
07/07/2023 £100,000
£365,000
REKINDLE To support Rekindle with their strategic growth of your organisation and the creation of a virtual home for teaching, learning, training, youth-led research and activism around education reform.
05/04/2023 £10,000
£68,008
CLASS 13 To support Class 13 reduce school exclusions by challenging deficit thinking through working with educators on a structured modular programme of developing and embedding thinking around deficit thinking and delivered over 3 modules.
29/03/2023 £125,000
POWER THE FIGHT To support Power the Fight with the delivery and development of your Therapeutic Intervention for Peace Programme (TIP) in three secondary schools in South East London.
23/03/2023 £218,323
STEVENAGE BOROUGH COUNCIL To support a partnership consisting of Stevenage Borough Council, Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, University of Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire College to deliver the discovery phase of the Pioneering Young STEM Futures programme in Stevenage.
10/03/2023 £41,500
THE FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE To support FEA to build the capacity across their membership in youth engagement and participation and transform the sector's youth engagement practise.
01/03/2023 £50,000
THE ADVOCACY ACADEMY To support The Advocacy Academy to advance their 12 month key strategic priorities; to strengthen and grow campaigning for change activity, stabilise organisational infrastructure, and activate new allies to build the youth campaigning movement.
28/01/2023 £4,950
THE DIFFERENCE Capacity buildling grant to support a pilot of a software platform with 12 schools currently employing a Difference Leader Alumnus to help track alumni impact on school inclusion data including attendance, suspension and exclusion numbers, and behaviour points.
26/01/2023 £450,000
OASIS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS To support Oasis to develop interventions that reduce permanent and temporary exclusion rates of Black students.
26/01/2023 £450,000
CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMIES TRUST To support Cooperative Academy pilot, test and develop bespoke interventions that reduce fixed and permanent exclusions for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students.
09/12/2022 £138,358
DECSY - GENDER ACTION To grow participation in its school-charter mark scheme: a whole school approach to promoting gender equity, supporting the participation, attainment and progression of women and girls in STEM subjects.
09/12/2022 £226,400
BRADFORD COLLEGE To support Bradford College alongside Bradford City Council, The Leap and other regional partners, to a) raise awareness of motorsport STEM career opportunities, b) work with employers to increase the available apprenticeships; and c) provide financial bursaries and wraparound support.
09/12/2022 £133,500
ASSOCIATION FOR BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY ENGINEERS ( AFBE-UK) To scale the organisation's work and expand its ‘Making Engineering Hot’ programme to new regions to increase the number of ethnic minority young people pursuing careers in engineering motorsport careers.
07/12/2022 £125,000
THE FELIX PROJECT To help The Felix Project to embed young people in the Felix community, developing a strategy to engage young people from underserved backgrounds in their volunteering programme.
17/11/2022 £125,000
THE BLACK CURRICULUM To deliver The Black Curriculum’s Consultation Audits and Senior and Teacher Training programmes across the UK.
30/09/2022 £31,000
CAPE MENTORS Core funding to support Cape Mentors to recruit more teacher mentors to increase key services to vunerable learners
30/08/2022 £99,512
BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION To deliver the Black Education in Britain Programme, a research and engagement programme which aims to examine the barriers to education for Black children and young people in the UK.
22/07/2022 £374,922
JUST FOR KIDS LAW To scale the impact of JfKL's strand of work focused on preventing exclusions and it's harmful consequences on young people
22/07/2022 £375,000
THE DIFFERENCE To expand the reach of The Difference's Leadership Development programme across England while engaging and positively influencing more leaders, educators to enact substantial change.
30/06/2022 £192,871
MOTORSPORT UK To pilot new partnerships and conduct research to expand FIA Girls on Track UK programming and reach to low-income and minority ethnic groups
14/06/2022 £457,200
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Towards the Motorsport MSc Scholarship Programme to support at least 10 Black students in motorsport related subjects plus professional capital building, exposure to motorsport industry, mentors and careers support
01/06/2021 £540,000
TEACH FIRST To fund a 24 month pilot programme to increase representation of Black STEM teachers
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Recipient
£540,000 TEACH FIRST
£457,200 ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
£450,000 OASIS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
£450,000 CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMIES TRUST
£429,950 THE DIFFERENCE
£374,922 JUST FOR KIDS LAW Education & Employment: Becoming employable
£312,045 ASSOCIATION FOR BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY ENGINEERS ( AFBE-UK)
£311,658 UPREACH Education & Employment: Maximising potential
£268,323 STEVENAGE BOROUGH COUNCIL
£260,362 CORAM
£226,400 BRADFORD COLLEGE
£192,871 MOTORSPORT UK
£141,000 FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE
£141,000 CAPE MENTORS
£138,358 DECSY - GENDER ACTION
£135,000 THE TRAVELLER MOVEMENT
£125,000 THE FELIX PROJECT
£125,000 THE BLACK CURRICULUM
£125,000 POWER THE FIGHT
£110,000 REKINDLE
£99,512 BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION
£60,000 THE ADVOCACY ACADEMY
£60,000 MILK HONEY BEES
£25,000 MY LIFE MY SAY
£10,000 DRIVEN BY US
£10,000 CLASS 13
£10,000 BLACK WOMEN IN SCIENCE
£8,640 NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE COLLEGE

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