Organisations supporting the education of tenants and landlords are being offered funding from the TDS Charitable Foundation.

The Foundation, which the Tenancy Deposit Service launched in 2014, has already funded a range of projects across the country including funding for the NUS to train student tenants across the country, open door information events for landlords in Bradford, an information campaign by a community radio station in Wolverhampton, and literature on a new landlord licensing scheme in Brent.

The Foundation is offering to fund projects up to £20,000, with the aim of promoting higher standards in the private rented sector through better awareness amongst tenants and landlords.

Professor Martin Partington, chair of the TDS Charitable Foundation, said: “We are especially looking to help inform the growing number of ‘accidental’ landlords, who did not intend to become landlords when they acquired a property.

“They often have limited knowledge of their responsibilities, leaving both them and their tenants at significant risk.”

It has also announced that it is now looking to commission experts in the private rented sector to create a package of workshop training material.

The deadline for applications is June 4 and they can be made online here