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Charity

Sir Peter Lampl is the Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation.

The Sutton Trust

The Sutton Trust was founded in 1997 by Sir Peter Lampl to improve social mobility through education. The Trust has funded over 200 programmes, commissioned over 200 research studies and influenced Government education policy by pushing social mobility to the top of the political agenda.

Our cause

We work to combat educational inequality and prevent the subsequent waste of talent.  We are particularly concerned with breaking the link between educational opportunities and family background, and in realising a system in which young people are given the chance to prosper, regardless of their family background, school or neighbourhood. Low social mobility and lack of educational opportunity is arguably the biggest social challenge of our times: the income gap between the richest and poorest in society continues to widen, while education opportunities remain overwhelmingly dominated by children from the most privileged homes.

Our approach

As disadvantage starts before young people are born and continues through to the workplace, the Trust’s interest covers parenting and early years projects, primary and secondary schooling and access to university and the professions. At later ages we have a particular focus on academically talented young people with the potential to study at leading, highly-selective universities.

Education Endowment Foundation

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is an independent charity set up in 2011 by the Sutton Trust as lead foundation in partnership with Impetus Trust (now part of Impetus–The Private Equity Foundation), with a £125m founding grant from the Department for Education. It is dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

Since its launch the EEF has awarded £96.3 million to 160 projects working with over 1,000,000 pupils in over 10,000 schools, as well as early years and post-16 settings, across England. The EEF and Sutton Trust are, together, the government-designated What Works Centre for Education.