Education & Young People 2025
The Portal Trust

The Portal Trust Impact Report 2025

The Portal Trust is an independent London education charity distributing grants to expand educational access across inner London. Since 2018 it has awarded around £34m in direct and indirect grants reaching 200,000+ young people across 13 boroughs. Major grants include £4m to London College of Fashion (including the Making for Change prison programme), and bursaries/scholarships to individual students. The charity funds education across five priority areas: bursaries, partner schools, new initiatives, prisoner education and widening participation.

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📋About

Education grants and bursaries, school partnership support, prisoner education programmes (Making for Change), new educational initiatives funding, rent-free educational space Custom geography from upload: Inner London, UK (13 boroughs + City of London)

📊Key Metrics

Over 200,000 young people and children reached by grant giving since 2018 Key Metric 1
150+ organisations awarded grants Key Metric 2
£34m in total direct and indirect grants awarded across six years Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Young people and organisations funded
  • Educational access expanded
  • Prisoner education impact

📍Geography

London

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