2024 Aberdeenshire Grant Awards

We're thrilled to announce that the following projects were approved to receive a grant from the Jo Walters Trust in June 2024, to bring about education in the outdoors:

Keig Primary School Parent Council, £1,000: to upgrade the rural village playground with a TrimTrak which can be used by the pupils and the wider community.

Turriff Academy, £2,000: this will buy tents, cooking equipment and other outdoor kit to allow senior school pupils in S1 to S3 to get the benefit of outdoor expeditions.

Midmill School Nursery, £500: to buy waterproofs, hats, wellies etc for Midmill nursery allowing the young children to benefit from time in the outdoors without being frozen and soaked

Oakley ASN Ltd SC053128, £370: a donation to buy a disabled picnic table for 'Growing Futures' in Stonehaven, a project designed to give teenagers with additional support needs a nature-inspired journey of gardening and food cultivation.

Braemar Primary School Parent Council, £500: this will allow the school to give teh children from Braemar primary a chance to try skiing at Glenshee over the 2024/25 winter

Banff Academy: £1,973: to buy equipment to allow the school to expand Mountain biking / Cycling, Climbing and Duke of Edinburgh provision

Elrick Nursery School, £140: this will allow the nursery to buy equipment needed to continue offering forest school for their youngest pupilis.

2024 Maths Grants

Holly Lodge Girls' College, £1,000: these funds will pay to start two maths / problem solving clubs in a girls' school in a deprived area

Bannockburn High School Learning Community, £500: to buy physical resources to use in place of digital one for students up to GCSE equivalent age

Hillview Nursery, £750: to make up numeracy and maths bags using stories and rhymes allowing children and families to develop a love for maths and have fun learning together.

Aberbargoed Primary, £792: this will help the school teach carers how to engage in mathematical activities on a day to day basis, while trying to also improve the adult understanding and knowledge of mathematical concepts. Using 'maths packs' which they offer to parents facilitates them to play/teach alongside their children at home.

Four Lanes Junior School, £400: to create ‘maths game sacks’, akin to story sacks, giving families a bag of maths games, toys and resources to take home.

Ysgol Penalltau, £500: to equip a maths shed with games and equipment, allowing the children to take their maths learning outdoors.

Apply for a 2024 Aberdeenshire Grant

Applications are now closed

In 2024, a number of grants of up to £2,000 each will again be made available by the Jo Walters Trust to people or organisations with a strong link to Aberdeenshire. We are inviting applications for project funding that will provide educational opportunities to people in the outdoors.

We'd love to hear from you if you have plans that you believe could help more people get outside to learn something! Whether it's for groups, families, individuals or schools, if you think a grant of up to £2,000 would help you achieve it please do apply below.

From the outward bound expeditions she did at school, to sailing adventures and her time in the OTC doing army training, Jo Walters was the product of plenty of time outdoors, and she believed it had huge benefits, both physical and mental. We know she would want more people to benefit from being in the outdoors, just as she did, and so in her memory, we are offering financial support to help people like you make this happen!

Application Deadline: 7th June 2024

Jo Walters Trust Maths Grants 2024

Applications for 2024 are now closed

Do you have a project that could have a real and lasting impact on how people learn and respond to maths? If you do, please apply for one of our grants this year - read on for how to do so.

Would you like to inspire your students?
Could your idea raise attainment and promote a love of Maths?
Would a grant of £1000 help achieve this goal?

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maths 3 The Jo Walters Trust is offering a grant of up to £1,000 to support projects which help and inspire pupils to engage with mathematics.
Applicants are not expected to reinvent the wheel: we are looking for ideas that will help inspire students and help those teaching them, after a lot of screen time for everyone in the last few years we hope to hear from people with ideas that don't involve yet more time on screens. Ideas could include trips, workshops, competitions, an action-research project within the classroom, purchase of equipment or something totally different. We don’t want to constrain applications so will welcome all ideas, large and small, but we remain unlikely to fund what schools and Local Authorities should themselves fund, such as teacher cover and CPD, smaller or extra classes, or coaching small groups through the curriculum.