The Bell Foundation

Who they support

EAL Programme The programme seeks to improve the educational outcomes of children in the UK who use English as an Additional Language in order to benefit the individual child and society as a whole. ESOL Programme The programme seeks to enable young people to develop their English language skills as a means to achieving their social, educational and/or employment goals. Criminal Justice Programme The programme seeks to break down the language barrier to accessing justice and rehabilitation for individuals in contact with the criminal justice system for whom English is an Additional Language. Language for Results International Language for Results International is a product aimed at enabling the international education sector to develop and embed EAL provision and expertise within their school and improve the educational outcomes of children using English as an Additional Language.

The average annual spending of grantees has been £4 million
The average age of charities supported has been years.

Grant criteria

The Bell Foundation is a charity which aims to overcome exclusion through language education by working with partners on innovation, research, training and practical interventions.

Charity registered in England & Wales, No: -311585

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Analysis of Grants Made

In this period 25 donations have been made totalling £2,228,349 to 15 organisations

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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)

Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?

	By Value	By Number
AB Charitable Trust	88%	67%
The National Lottery Community Fund	76%	67%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation	63%	40%
City Bridge Trust	54%	40%
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales	47%	33%
Trust for London	42%	27%
The Henry Smith Charity	40%	27%
Charles Hayward Foundation	35%	13%
Garfield Weston Foundation	34%	13%
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	32%	33%

Sole supporter: 27% by number, 8% by value.

Individual Grants Made

When	Amount	Annual Spending	Grantee	To be used for
18/10/2023	£48,426	£523,504	SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE	Suffolk Law Centre and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality are jointly working on a project that aims to address poorer legal outcomes, criminal and civil, in the interaction with the criminal justice system for poor migrants, especially Eastern European Roma in Suffolk.
23/01/2023	£5,261	£1,392,539	HIBISCUS INITIATIVES	An unrestricted one off payment to grant funded partners to help respond to the cost of living crisis.
30/11/2022	£34,003		EAST OF ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION	East of England Local Government Association delivers Phase 2 of the WW4RI project by embedding learning and implementing the framework developed in Phase 1 of the project. They will do this by training partner organisations to implement the framework and provide improved assistance to refugees and asylum seekers.
05/10/2022	£10,815	£1,227,117	LAW CENTRES NETWORK	Law Centres Network through this project facilitates learning & provides evidence for improved practice across Law Centres. They develop strategies based on a human-rights approach to address structural discrimination of victims of crime with EAL by centring the victims' needs and voices.
05/10/2022	£47,444		PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST	Building Bridges is a project that will seek to address the underrepresentation of prisoners that speak English as a second or additional language amongst the thousands of learners that access the Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) relationship, parenting, social & emotional education courses in prisons each year.
29/06/2022	£28,110	£398,467	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	GMLC provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in Greater Manchester. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second language, focused on domestic violence.
29/06/2022	£29,176	£398,467	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	GMLC provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in Greater Manchester. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second language, focused on domestic violence.
06/05/2022	£39,104	£726,886	HARROW LAW CENTRE	Harrow Law Centre provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in the London Borough of Harrow. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second or additional language.
30/03/2022	£109,653	£1,392,539	HIBISCUS INITIATIVES	Hibiscus Initiatives is a leading organisation supporting foreign nationals and black, minority ethnic and refugee (BMER) individuals involved in the criminal justice system in the UK. The Bell Foundation funded this one year project to develop a model to provide support for foreign national victims of trafficking and modern slavery through cultural language mediation.
08/06/2021	£47,004	£452,347	HARROW LAW CENTRE	Harrow Law Centre provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in the London Borough of Harrow. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second language in four main areas: Hate Crime, Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery, and Domestic Violence.
08/06/2021	£87,643	£578,119	REFUGEE EDUCATION UK	REUK works with young refugees aged 14-25 years old. They mentor the young people and provide education and wellbeing support. REUK is working in partnership with The Bell Foundation to develop an impact framework to understand the impact of ESOL learning on the education outcomes of young refugees.
08/06/2021	£25,003	£213,504	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE	GMLC provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in Greater Manchester. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second language, with a focus on victims of domestic abuse.
08/06/2021	£55,626	£223,439	WHY ME?	Why me? are a national charity delivering and promoting Restorative Justice for everyone affected by crime and conflict. The Bell Foundation is funding Why Me?'s Project Articulate, aiming to widen access to Restorative Justice for people with English as an Additional Language (EAL) by building the capacity of services working with EAL and to deliver Restorative Justice, and building the capacity of Restorative Justice services to become more accessible to people with EAL.
08/06/2021	£110,463	£6,545,000	REFUGEE ACTION	Refugee Action has formed a partnership with The Bell Foundation to develop a digital ESOL for employment course, and mentoring for refugees with corporate partners, delivery and evaluate the impact.
08/06/2021	£130,237	£650,406	HARROW LAW CENTRE	Harrow Law Centre provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in the London Borough of Harrow. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second or additional language.
08/06/2021	£48,009	£291,648	WHY ME?	Why me? are a national charity delivering and promoting Restorative Justice for everyone affected by crime and conflict. The Bell Foundation is funding Why Me?'s Project Articulate, aiming to widen access to Restorative Justice for people with English as a second or additional language.
25/03/2021	£50,000	£1,163,054	HIBISCUS INITIATIVES	Hibiscus Initiatives is a leading organisation supporting foreign nationals and black, minority ethnic and refugee (BMER) individuals involved in the criminal justice system in the UK. The Bell Foundation funded this one year project to develop a model of Cultural Mediation for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.
25/03/2021	£43,503		EAST OF ENGLAND STRATEGIC MIGRATION PARTNERSHIP	EESMP have been funded to deliver a Wellbeing and Work for Refugee Integration project. The Bell Foundation is funding a formal academic evaluation of the project.
25/03/2021	£20,704	£466,617	KENT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK	KRAN works with young refugees and UASC with their wellbeing, cultural awareness and education, including ESOL. The Bell Foundation is funding KRAN to review the KRAN ESOL curriculum, make recommendations to improve this, then train other volunteers in delivering the curriculum.
10/12/2020	£340,000	£657,609	SHANNON TRUST	Shannon Trust is a national charity supporting thousands of prisoners a year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. The Bell Foundation funded Shannon Trust to adapt their reading system to be more accessible to people who speak English as a second/additional language.
05/05/2020	£310,881	£1,357,929	HIBISCUS INITIATIVES	£6000.000 for covid 19 response
25/03/2020	£74,971	£37,810,000	VICTIM SUPPORT	Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. The Bell Foundation funded this work with South Asian Heritage victims in East Lancashire, to co-produce support materials tailored to the community's needs.
20/03/2020	£130,237	£452,347	HARROW LAW CENTRE	Harrow Law Centre provides a free and independent legal advice service to people who live or work in the London Borough of Harrow. The Bell Foundation is funding this work to provide advice and representation to victims of crime who speak English as a second or additional language.
13/02/2020	£62,076		UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION	UCL Institute of Education had funding to conduct a literature review into young people, education, employment and ESOL and quantitative analysis to understand the education and employment outcomes of young people who speak languages other than English.
03/10/2019	£340,000	£730,340	SHANNON TRUST	Shannon Trust is a national charity supporting thousands of prisoners a year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. The Bell Foundation funded Shannon Trust to adapt their reading system to be more accessible to people who speak English as a second/additional language.

Cumulative Grants

Amount	Grantee
£680,000	SHANNON TRUST
£475,795	HIBISCUS INITIATIVES
£346,582	HARROW LAW CENTRE
£110,463	REFUGEE ACTION
£103,635	WHY ME?
£87,643	REFUGEE EDUCATION UK
£82,289	GREATER MANCHESTER LAW CENTRE
£74,971	VICTIM SUPPORT
£62,076	UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
£48,426	SUFFOLK LAW CENTRE
£47,444	PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST
£43,503	EAST OF ENGLAND STRATEGIC MIGRATION PARTNERSHIP
£34,003	EAST OF ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
£20,704	KENT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK
£10,815	LAW CENTRES NETWORK