Since 1999 the Foundation has given more than £10 million to initiatives to improve UK education and has changed the access of UK schools and policymakers to good data via the creation of FFT Education, the schools’ data service, and FFT Education Datalab. In 2019 the Apex project began, tackling avoidable early literacy failure in schools. The Foundation core-funds the innovative medical science research unit Systems Biology Laboratory, as well as a variety of other important research projects that have the potential to change lives.