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The Wood Foundation has welcomed four additional schools to its Excelerate network. Arbroath, Forfar, Peterhead, and Dyce Academies will all benefit from investment in professional learning, coaching, and network support [...]

The Wood Foundation was launched in 2007 by Sir Ian Wood KT GBE and his immediate family to address economic and societal inequities. In March 2008, The Wood Foundation made its first grant. [...]

The Wood Foundation has granted £150,000 to the STV Children’s Appeal for the 11th consecutive year. The funds are distributed to local charities across Scotland which are addressing the immediate [...]

More than 38,500 young people have been empowered to be advocates for their communities, securing £828,000 pounds for charities the length and breadth of the country. Through The Wood Foundation’s [...]

Stewart Clelland had signed up to do our Global Learning Partnerships (GLP) programme in 2020. Three years later, he had the opportunity to join 19 fellow global educators on the placement to Uganda [...]

The final cohort of authorities to engage in the RAiSE investment has embarked upon the programme. Each of the five regions has appointed Primary Science Development Officers (PSDOs) to lead [...]

The Wood Foundation has appointed a team of six Programme Officers to lead the regional delivery of YPI. The Programme Officers each manage an assigned regional cohort of schools, working [...]

A report has been created to celebrate the progress, impact, and legacy of RAiSE in 2022/23. RAiSE (Raising Aspirations in Science Education) is a programme of Education Scotland, The Wood [...]

 The Edge Foundation has produced a report about The Wood Foundation’s Excelerate investment. Entitled ‘Towards an improved student experience: Excelerate schools in Scotland’, the report draws upon the learnings of [...]