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Help close the education gap on Giving Tuesday with our match fund

Donors, Financial, Growing Minds, News, OCFBy Kate ParrinderNovember 30, 2020

Every pound donated up to £30,000 will be doubled to help disadvantaged communities improve children’s school readiness with our match-funding initiative on The Good Exchange. The match starts on Giving Tuesday and runs for the next 10 months.

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Growing Minds picks up the pace to close the education gap

Donors, Groups, Growing Minds, Impact, News, OCFBy Kate ParrinderOctober 29, 2020

After the initial shock of lockdown, families taking part in OCF’s Growing Minds early years programme are adapting to the ‘new normal’: social distancing, fewer face-to-face services, and rapid acceleration in the development of online services.

Growing Minds steps up to COVID-19 crisis

Growing Minds, Impact, News, OCFBy Kate ParrinderAugust 7, 2020

Following the lockdown of educational and childcare services in March, think tanks and educators alike have predicted the widening of the attainment gap for disadvantaged children. Growing Minds has quickly responded, adapting the project to offer the best support to our families during lockdown, and planning for a more challenging future.

Growing Minds early years partnership adapts to COVID-19

Groups, Growing Minds, Impact, News, OCFBy Kate ParrinderMay 5, 2020

Growing Minds, the collaborative project convened by OCF to tackle educational inequality, has had to adapt quickly to the circumstances imposed by the coronavirus outbreak. Partners are moving some elements of the project online, whilst other aspects have become more important than ever in the current context.

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