Promoting inclusive and equitable access to education

As part of our One Planet: Engineering with Purpose Sustainability strategy we have established a Group Education Fund that will donate up to £15 million to educational causes by 2030. The Group Education Fund aims to improve diversity in engineering, tackle poverty though education, remove barriers and improve female access to education across the local communities in which we operate.

During 2025, the Education Fund approved 38 new grant applications, and donated £562,529 in respect of these, as well as paying £256,435 in respect of multi-year grants.
Examples of grants made in 2025 include:

  • Renovating 45 classrooms at a girls’ high school in South Africa, damaged by flooding, benefiting nearly 1,000 girls through improved access to quality education and a better learning environment
  • Funding two Afro-Colombian women to complete engineering degrees at university, removing financial barriers to education and supporting greater diversity in engineering
  • Equipping a secondary school’s Robotics, Design and Animation programme with laptops, a 3D printer, laser cutter and welding machine, benefiting over 250 students with hands-on STEM learning
  • Supporting a research-based social skills and emotional learning programme for students with autism and social-emotional learning challenges in the USA
 

How the Group Education Fund works

The Group Education Fund is a central source of funding that any Spirax Group company can apply to, to support a local educational need. The onward donation of grants is managed and overseen by our Group operating companies locally.

The Group Education Fund does not receive applications directly from charities, individuals or educational organisations.