Charities - education

ASAB aims to further the understanding of animal behaviour at all educational levels and to promote animal welfare and conservation. We give grants to enable studies on the function, evolution, development and causation of behaviour, the results of which are widely reported. In particular, popular TV and radio programmes regularly use our members' work, as recognised by our patron, Sir David Attenborough.

The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing Fellowship of 900 scholars, elected for distinction in research.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel’s first and foremost University, an acclaimed educational and research institution of the highest calibre that has made an indelible impression both locally and internationally. Despite its relative youth, opening its doors in 1925, the Hebrew University was a vital part of the British Mandate period going on to play a critical role in the development of the State of Israel and Jewish life, benefiting all citizens whilst reaching out to cure, feed and heal the world.

The charitable purpose of Cans Legal Information is to make legal information available to the general public as cheaply as possible. As part of these charitable aims, we publish a detailed online summary of the laws of England, Wales and Scotland (www.cans.org.uk) as well as a loose-leaf service with the same content (Cans Digest of Social Legislation).

‘Creating opportunities and raising aspirations for disadvantaged children.’
Changing Children’s Futures is a network of 5 Hertfordshire schools serving communities with high levels of social and economic deprivation. Our aim is to ensure that all the children in our schools have a fair chance to succeed, develop aspirations for their future and therefore be able to create better lives for themselves.

Harper Adams University College is the UK’s largest higher education institution specialising in the sustainable development of the rural economy and rural communities. The College has 2,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in all aspects of rural life, including agriculture, the management of the food chain, the management of the countryside, the development of rural businesses, the protection of environmental and natural resources, rural leisure and tourism and the professional training of veterinary nurses and practice managers. The University College, based in rural Shropshire, is also a major centre for rural and food chain research and knowledge transfer.

Founded in 1967, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Limited is a registered charity with the twin aims of education and heritage conservation.

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets is the UK’s leading maritime charity supporting both the Royal Navy and the Merchant Marine. As the parent charity of the Sea Cadet Corps the MSSC caters for 400 community based sea cadet units nationwide providing young people from 10-18 with life skills and worthwhile qualifications – Navy style.

For more than 90 years, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has played a key role in supporting the development of improved crop varieties and transferring advances in plant science into practical agriculture.

Established as a charitable trust in 1919 under the motto ‘Better Seeds: Better Crops’, NIAB recognised the importance of seed quality and improved varieties in safeguarding food supplies following food shortages during the First World War.

The Open University is the United Kingdom’s only university dedicated to distance learning. It promotes educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential.

Where there’s a Will…
“I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends” Richard II

St John’s school for the deaf is a day and boarding school for hearing impaired pupils aged 5 to 19.
Pupils are taught by specialist teachers of the deaf and emphasis is placed on helping them to develop, understand and use spoken language. This approach is underpinned by a commitment to the use of technology to provide children with maximum access to speech.

Founded in 1955 and incorporated in 1962, the Tramway Museum Society owns and operates the National Tramway Museum at Crich, on the edge of the Peak District in Derbyshire. The society is a registered charity, a Designated Museum under the Museums and Galleries Commission schemes, a member of the International Commission of Transport Museums, and the Association of Independent Museums.
It maintains this operating museum with the willing practical help of volunteers. Trams from Great Britain and abroad are here. It was established to preserve