Every Child a Chance Trust

PEF Contribution

• PEF has invested in the Every Child a Chance Trust, a charity which aims to unlock the educational potential of socially disadvantaged children through the development and promotion of evidence-based, early intervention programmes
• PEF has invested specifically in the Trust’s new Every Child Counts programme which is taking the principles behind Every Child a Reader and adapting them for mathematics
• PEF is taking a strategic role in the Trust’s development, and one of our Trustees, Dwight Poler of Bain Capital, has joined the Board of Trustees for the Every Child a Chance Trust.

"Partnership with the Private Equity Foundation is helping us tackle some tough issues in securing the long term future of our national early intervention programmes."

Jean Gross, Director, Every Child a Chance Trust

Introducing the Charity

The Trust was established in 2007. It grew out of the outstandingly successful Every Child a Reader project , which showed that with the right intervention it is possible to tackle the literacy difficulties which blight many children’s lives This three-year £10m scheme, now being rolled out nationally, was funded by a partnership of businesses and charitable trusts with matched funding from government.