Awards financial support to young people (aged 16–20), with severe social problems, particularly those who are estranged from their parents, to attend further education and training.

In 2009–2010 Buttle UK enabled 172 young people to access courses as varied as architecture, music technology, business and tree surgery.

Offers bespoke packages of support for hard to reach young people (aged 18–25) to aid their return to education, employment or training.

Buttle UK aims to provide a complete package designed specifically for each young person, that will help them access a better future.

[6] Buttle UK ran the Students and Trainees and Access to the Future Programmes successfully however analysis showed that these grants would be more impactful when focused on a certain group of young people.

In the process of its grants programme for students and trainees it recognised that Care Leavers have a unique set of difficulties in aspiring to and progressing well through higher education.

The four broad Quality Mark for Care Leaver criteria are: 1. to raise aspirations and achievements, 2. to have appropriate admissions procedures, 3. to provide entry and ongoing support, and 4. to monitor the implementation of the Commitment.

If all HE institutions work towards implementing the scheme then large steps will be made towards making the aspirations of young people leaving care achievable.

[citation needed] The second phase of the project involves interviewing children growing up in kinship care, and their carers and is expected to be disseminated at the end of 2012.

This two-year action research project was funded jointly by The Frank Buttle Trust and the British Dyslexia Association (BDA).