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Together, we can create a future where every child thrives

One in three children in the UK is growing up in poverty. That’s 4.5 million young lives shaped by barriers they didn’t choose. We know the barriers facing children and young people are complex, extending beyond academic attainment to early development, wellbeing, essential skills, and ultimately, life chances. 

This is not inevitable. The system is not meeting the needs of children and young people — with your support, we can change it.

The Fair Education Alliance (FEA) is a coalition of 300 organisations working from neighbourhood to national to close the gaps in early development, attainment, wellbeing, essential skills, and access to education and employment. Together, we can make sure no child’s success is limited by their socioeconomic background.

Why partner with the Fair Education Alliance?

  • We tackle root causes
    We take a systems change approach — influencing policies, funding flows, relationships, and mindsets — so that change lasts.

  • We have national reach with local impact
    Our members work across 24,000 education settings, including 95% of schools in the most income-deprived areas.

  • We unite powerful voices
    From young people with lived experience to business leaders and policymakers, our coalition speaks with a shared voice funders can amplify.

  • We measure real progress
    Our Fair Education Impact Goals track the gaps in early development, attainment, wellbeing, essential skills, and access to education and employment. Every year, we publish our Report Card to hold ourselves — and society — to account.

How your support drives change

Our partners fuel three core strands of our work:

Collective Voice

Support us to amplify young people’s voices, influence decision-makers, and challenge the assumptions that keep inequity in place.

Collective Action

Fund collaborations that unite schools, businesses, local government, charities and communities to co-design solutions — from early years and literacy to skills and employment.

Collective Strength

Invest in the leadership, innovation, and capacity of 300 organisations so they can grow their impact and drive change together.

Opportunities
to partner

  • Strategic partnerships that align your CSR goals with systemic change in education.

  • Opportunities to demonstrate sector leadership in areas such as AI & technology, youth employment, or literacy.

  • Catalyse large-scale systems change through multi-year investment.

  • Fund place-based collaborations, or thematic collaborations tackling early childhood, literacy, and employment.

  • Strengthen the backbone infrastructure that allows 300+ organisations to work more powerfully together.