The Reed Foundation last week launched a pilot scheme to encourage philanthropy in the young.

24 pupils at the Dragon School in Oxford were given vouchers for £50 each by the Reed Foundation, to be donated to charities of the pupils choice on theBigGive.org.uk. Over the coming weeks, pupils will use the resources on The Big Give to carry out background research into their shortlisted charities. Each pupil will then decide which charity to donate their £50 voucher to.

The five pupils with the most impressive research projects will be given the opportunity to present information about their chosen charities to Alec Reed, with the possibility of further Reed Foundation funding being offered if any of them are persuasive enough!

Reed comments ‘I hope this scheme will be the first of many. I want to encourage more people to use their wealth to help inspire the next generation of philanthropists’

Anyone interested in giving in this way should contact Jon Brooks at the Big Give on jon.brooks@theBigGive.org.uk