Grant Directories

Sea Changers is a UK charity, through the Innovation Fund Sea Changers provides up to £30,000 of funding to support ideas that are new and/or experimental solutions in the field of marine conservation. This includes any innovation that may: Address the root causes of marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK; Prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and/or species;  Add to the body of knowledge about marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK and ways to overcome them.

The Clean Growth Fund (CGF) invests in technology businesses that are driving the transition to net zero through developing disruptive products and services. The clean growth sector includes innovations that can improve the resource efficiency of industry and commerce, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pollution or other adverse environmental impacts and also deliver substantial financial returns.  CGF will invest across the technology spectrum, including hardware, software, process systems, materials, deep tech and business model innovations, capable of driving real and rapid change on a global scale.

The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Through The Dennis Stanfield Memorial Fund the society provides funding up to £2,000 to support botanical research on tropical African plants. Awards are made at (even numbered) two year intervals. 

The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Through the Appleyard Fund the society provides grants of up to £2,000 supporting research projects in botany or zoology, by Fellows or Associates of the Society.

The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Through the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund Grants programme the society provides grants up to £2,000 supporting field work abroad in the earth and life sciences. Funds are not available for further education of any kind, for visits to conferences, for work in institutions or for field work undertaken as part of a dissertation of higher degree. Undergraduate expeditions are also not supported.

The Gatsby Plant Science small grants programme funds exceptional research projects that are unlikely to attract support from research councils or other funding agencies.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available to help businesses who already have an environmentally friendly product or service and need help getting it to market. Potential activities that can be funded include the use of marketing and web development agencies, sales agents and trade shows. Grants are open to SMEs across the South East of England (excluding London).

The PTES worldwide grants programme offers conservation insight grants of £3,000 to £10,000 per year for up to two years to projects focussing on endangered species. Grants will be awarded to projects that seek to either: Find critical scientific evidence that will faciltiate the conservation of a species; provide the answer to a key conservation question; or undertake the implementation of a key local action resulting in significant, positive impact for an endangered species. Applicants must already be working and established in the UK, overseas UK territory or any country classified by the World Bank as not high income.  Applications for work with bird species are not accepted.

The Ove Arup Foundations mission is to stimulate and educate those working in the built environment, and particularly to encourage them to develop a wide understanding of the issues and the technologies involved. Its principal focus is within postgraduate and undergraduate education, promoting new thinking and initiatives that are likely to reach a wide audience all around the world. The funding amount is discretionary. Small, one-off donations are occasionally considered for a purpose or activity that the Foundation views as worthwhile in itself. Applications may be submitted at any time

The Frederick Soddy Trust offers support for study which includes human geography: the social, economic and cultural life of specific regions within the United Kingdom, Ireland or elsewhere in the world. Schools wishing to undertake expeditions including human as well as physical geography may apply for this Award Scheme. Priority will be given to those schools that have not received a grant in recent years, and also to those that have at least a strong element of human geography. Preference will be given to those schools applying for funds for expeditions or field study in the United Kingdom and Ireland as opposed to countries elsewhere in the world.