# £40,000 fund to improve parental engagement in secondary school maths launches

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/05/15/40000-fund-to-improve-parental-engagement-in-secondary-school-maths-launches/
- Published: 2019-05-15T08:45:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A £40,000 innovation fund has launched to encourage parents to get involved with
their children’s maths education.**

The [Solving Together Fund](https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/solving-together-fund/)
launches today (15 May) and will be open to applicants until 24 June with the aim
of supporting two high-potential, early-stage interventions using digital technology
to improve parental engagement in maths for secondary students (11-16 years old).

The fund is part of [Maths Mission](https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/maths-mission/):
a partnership set up by [Tata](https://www.tata.com/) and [Nesta](https://www.nesta.org.uk/)
in 2017 that aims to find innovative new ways to increase young people’s interest
in maths, and improve their maths skills. It will contribute towards building the
evidence base on which technology interventions work in improving parental engagement.

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The Solving Together Fund is open to organisations implementing their work in UK
schools, with a particular interest in applicants working in communities with lower
educational outcomes. Grantees will gain both funding and support relevant to their
individual needs provided by Nesta and Tata for a period of six months. This could
include advice on business modelling, measuring of impact or marketing.

Social enterprises, charities and private enterprises can all apply. Interventions
can be delivered within the school curriculum, in non-curriculum time or outside
of schools. The fund is open to organisations in the early-stages of developing 
their intervention, perhaps having had positive results in one school but hoping
to spread to new locations, or organisations that have tested their intervention
in many schools but would like to run a pilot in a new context, for example moving
from primary schools to secondary schools.

The Solving Together Fund grants will support grantees with their:

 * Implementation – testing their projects in more locations or a new context in
   order to further improve and refine them and reach more schools, parents and 
   students
 * Evidence – supporting organisations to gather further insights into the effectiveness
   of their intervention that can be used to improve the intervention

Kate Bower, on the education team at Nesta said:

> “We believe that getting parents more involved in their child’s maths education
> could make a real difference in their child’s confidence in the subject and attainment.
> Digital technology could be used to connect the dots, build connections between
> schools and parents and make the subject more approachable. We look forward to
> hearing from the EdTech companies that could make a real difference in this space.”

Tim Jones CBE, Executive Director at Tata Limited added:

> “Tata has businesses in an array of industries. The one thing all these industries
> have in common is that maths plays a vital role in all that our 60,000+ employees
> in the UK do daily and It is crucial that the next generation have the right maths
> skills. We look forward to seeing some innovative solutions on how digital technology
> can play a part in encouraging parents to support their children in maths.”

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