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.

Where we made our difference in 2024. 


In 2024, the Group Education Fund's third year of operation, 70 grants with a combined value of over £1 million were awarded, across 36 countries.


Examples of grants made in 2024 include:


  • Funding scholarships for three Afro-Colombian women to study engineering at university in Colombia
  • Building a new classroom at a rural primary school in Ethiopia
  • Funding the creation of a mobile STEM classroom in Argentina
  • Providing a year’s worth of sanitary products for 150 girls from low-income families in South Korea
  • Establishing a STEM laboratory for secondary school pupils in Germany, to support STEM engagement

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.