Funding

Community of Science

Community of Science, Inc. (COS) is one of the leading Internet sites for the global R&D community. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists and researchers at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides tools and services that enable these professionals to communicate, exchange information and find the people and technologies that are important to their work.

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport's aim is to improve the quality of life for all through cultural and sporting activities, to support the pursuit of excellence and to champion the tourism, creative and leisure industries. To achieve this, they have developed four strategic priorities around which they organise their work:

• Children and Young People - enhancing access to a fuller cultural and sporting life for children and young people and giving them the opportunity to develop their talents to the full
• Community - opening up our institutions to the wider community to promote lifelong learning and social cohesion
• Economy - maximising the contribution which the tourism, creative and leisure industries can make to the UK's economy
• Delivery - modernising the way DCMS deliver their services by ensuring our sponsored bodies are set and meet targets which put consumers first

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Department for Education and Skills

The objectives of the Department for Education and Skills are to:

• Give children an excellent start in education so that they have a better foundation for future learning
• Enable all young people to develop and equip themselves with the skills, knowledge and personal qualities needed for life and work
• Encourage and enable adults to learn, improve their skills and enrich their lives

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Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

The aims of DEFRA are to provide:

• a better environment at home and internationally, and sustainable use of natural resources
• economic prosperity through sustainable farming, fishing, food, water and other industries that meet consumers' requirements
• thriving economies and communities in rural areas and a countryside for all to enjoy

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Department for International Development

Department for International Development is a UK Government department working to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty.  DFID operates a number of different funding schemes to promote sustainable development and eliminate poverty.

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Department of Education for Northern Ireland (DENI)

DENI aims to will work together with Higher Education Institutions as partners in education and youth services to ensure a high standard of education for all children and young people which will put them at the centre of education, motivate them to achieve their potential, build their confidence and enrich their lives, and provide the foundation for an inclusive society and a strong and vibrant economy.

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Department of Health

The research programmes include Health Technology Assessment Programme, DH Policy Research Programme, New and Emerging Application of Technology (NEAT) and Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO).

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Environment Agency

It is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. It's their job to make sure that air, land and water are looked after by everyone in today's society, so that tomorrow's generations inherit a cleaner and healthier world.

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Governmentfunding.org.uk

It is the online route to grants for the voluntary and community sector from the following funders:

• Department for Education and Skills
• Department of Health
• Home Office
• Office of Deputy Prime Minister

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Her Majesty’s Treasury

It is the department responsible for formulating and putting into effect the UK Government's financial and economic policy. The Treasury's overall aim is to raise the rate of sustainable growth, and achieve rising prosperity, through creating economic and employment opportunities for all.

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Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) promotes and funds high-quality, cost-effective teaching and research in universities and colleges in England.

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Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is an Assembly Sponsored Public Body established in May 1992 under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The Council is concerned with the funding of colleges and institutions of higher education in Wales. It also has the power to fund higher education in further education colleges.

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Home Office

The Home Office is the Government department responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales. They work to build a safe, just and tolerant society, to enhance opportunities for all, and to ensure that the protection and security of the public are maintained and enhanced.

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National Assembly for Wales

Research and Evaluation projects are carried out across the Assembly as research officials are co-located with policy officials. Some policy divisions have their own areas on this web site, with pages for Research and Evaluation, and one of the main purposes of these pages is to provide a central contact point for external users so that they can easily find the information that is already available. Information is also provided for potential research and evaluation contractors and for individuals who are looking for research or evaluation posts at the Assembly.

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Office of Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)

Responsibilities of new department will include local government, the regions and social exclusion.

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Office of Science and Technology (OST)

The Office of Science and Technology leads for Government in supporting excellent science, engineering and technology and their uses to benefit society and the economy.

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Scottish Executive

The Scottish Executive is the devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.

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Scottish Higher Education Funding Council

The Council exists to support the maintenance and further development of Scotland’s world-class higher education system.

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Training and Development Agency for Schools

The TDA's purpose is to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training in England.

There is not a section ‘Research’ in the TDA web-site. If TDA calls for tender for their research project, it will be advertise on their web-site and newspaper ‘Times Higher Education Supplement’.

It is a guardian of standards in education and training. QCA works with others to maintain and develops the school curriculum and associated assessments, and to accredit and monitor qualifications in schools, colleges and at work.

European Commission

The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interest of the Union and is the driving force in the Union's institutional system. Its four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements, mainly those relating to trade and cooperation.

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European Cultural Foundation

It is an independent foundation that promotes cultural participation and cooperation in Europe and beyond. It was founded in 1954 in order to help add a cultural dimension to the European integration process. On the operational front, it runs its own programmes and awards grants for innovative work in the cultural field. With our strong network of partners, it is also very active in advocating culture.

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European Science Foundation

The European Science Foundation promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives.

Scientific Programmes are medium- to long-term activities focused on specific themes. They bring together substantive research projects carried out by multinational teams of researchers, and may include limited fellowship schemes. They concentrate on how expertise can be co-ordinated and developed effectively at a European level.

Allen Lane Foundation

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust and was set up in 1966 by the late Sir Allen Lane. The broad areas of work which are priorities for the Foundation include the provision of advice, information and advocacy (generalist services, or targeted at one or more of the priority groups listed below):

• community development
• neighbourhood mediation, conflict resolution and alternatives to violence
• research and education aimed at changing public attitudes or policy
• social welfare aimed at making a long-term difference and empowering users

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American Respiratory Care Foundation

The ARCF is a not-for-profit organisation formed for the purpose of supporting research, education, and charitable activities. Specific activities of the Foundation include funding clinical and economic research, education recognition awards, educational activities, literary awards and scholarly publications. We are deeply committed to health promotion, disease prevention, and improving the quality of our environment. The Foundatioon seeks to educate the public about respiratory health and assists in the training and continuing education of health care providers. In summary, the Foundation seeks to ensure a better, healthier future for all by promoting prevention, quality treatment, and management of respiratory diseases.

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Anglo-German Foundation

The Foundation has contributed to policy-making in Britain and Germany by funding bilateral research and discussion of economic and social issues which challenge both countries, and by making the results of this work available to decision-makers, practitioners and their advisers. It aims to promote best practice in each country by providing access to information, ideas and experience from the other. The Foundation continues to address a wider agenda through our minor projects programme, but from 2003 the Foundation will concentrate its major resources on three priority topics:

• Health Care Systems
• Work-Life Balance
• Employment and Social Policies for an Ageing Society

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BFWG Charitable Foundation

The BFWG Charitable Foundation offers Foundation Grants to help women graduates with their living expenses (not fees) while registered for study or research at an approved institution of higher education in Great Britain. The criteria are the proven needs of the applicant and their academic calibre.

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British Heart Foundation

The aim of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is to play a leading role in the fight against heart disease so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death by:

• Funding research into the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease
• Providing support and information to heart patients and their families through the British Heart Foundation nurses, rehabilitation programmes and support groups
• Educating the public and health professionals about heart disease, its prevention and treatment
• Promoting training in emergency life support skills for the public and health professionals
• Providing vital life-saving equipment to hospitals and other health providers

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The British Lung Foundation

The British Lung Foundation is unique - the only UK charity that focuses on and tackles all aspects of the 40-plus lung conditions that, on average, affect one member of every family. From premature babies with breathing problems, to children with asthma, and older people with cancer or COPD, the Foundation's role is to inform and support - and to work to improve the quality of life of those living with a lung condition.

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Carnegie UK Trust

Andrew Carnegie gave £2 million to create the UK Trust, which bears his name. Through wise investments, grants of more than £24 million have been made over the last 87 years for, among other things, opening public libraries, providing church organs, developing village halls and supporting community needs in the arts, heritage and social welfare.

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Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-giving Foundation with a particular interest in supporting children, young people and society's most vulnerable individuals, through the charities which work to educate, inspire, empower or care for them. The Foundation's main areas of interest are as follows:

• museum and gallery education
• art and design education
• education
• performing arts education
• health, social welfare and disability.

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Cotton Foundation

The Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of learning and education by furthtering the study of archaeology, architecture, history, language and art of Mediterranean area.

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Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. The Foundation makes grants in four programme areas: Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment and Social Change: Enterprise and Independence. These grants are made to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. The Foundation likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.

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Foyle Foundation

The Foyle Foundation was formed to implement the terms of the will of the late Christina Foyle. She was the daughter of William Foyle who, with his brother, founded the family owned bookshop Foyles in Charing Cross Road, London, which she continued to manage after her father's death.

The Foyle Foundation distributes grants to charitable organisations in the areas of:

• Learning
• Arts
• Health

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Health Foundation

The Healthcare Medical Trust funds health-related activities, including research, training, public health initiatives and the development of new services, across the UK.

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. The Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. We seek to ensure that these and the findings from the research programme are helpful in the development of better policies and practices across the UK.

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John Ellerman Foundation

The Foundation was established by the late Sir John Reeves Ellerman in 1971. It is a general grantmaking trust distributing around £4.5 million each year. The Foundation aims to support a broad cross-section of national charities doing work of practical significance in the following 4 categories:

• Arts
• Community Development and Social Welfare
• Conservation
• Medical and Disability

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John Moores Foundation (JMF)

John Moores Foundation (JMF) was set up in 1963 with the intention of providing funds for charitable purposes. It is a registered charity which gives money to charitable community organisations. Whilst it is a national trust, currently it concentrates on funding projects based in Merseyside (including Skelmersdale, Halton, and Ellesmere Port, but priority will be given to projects working within the area of the former county of Merseyside) and Northern Ireland.

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Leverhulme Trust Foundation

The Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas, especially humanities and social sciences.

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Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales

The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England & Wales website is a grant-making trust and make donations to charities. Its mission is to support and work in partnership with charitable organisations which help people, especially those who are disadvantaged or disabled, to play a fuller role in communities throughout England and Wales.

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Nuffield Foundation

One of the UK's best known charitable trusts, the Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield) the founder of Morris Motors. There are five Areas of Special Interest: Children Protection and Family Justice, Access to Justice, Older People and their Families, Education Provision and Children's Need, and Curriculum Innovation. In addition, the Open Door programme is used to fund projects that lie outside these areas of interest - or span boundaries between them - and that address the general aims of the Foundation.

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Paul Hamlyn Foundation has four priority areas of funding - the arts, education, publishing and overseas projects, which are mainly concentrated in India. In all these areas Trustees' emphasis is on helping to increase the opportunities available to people.

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Pilgrim Trust

Edward Harkness of New York founded the Pilgrim Trust in 1930 by endowing it with a capital sum of just over £2 million. It makes grants for social welfare, art and learning, preservation of historic buildings and monuments, cataloguing and conservation of historic and archaelogical records, and repair of the fabric of places of worship. The Trustees' current priorities are:

• Social welfare
• Art and learning
• Preservation
• Records
• Places of worship

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Rufford Maurice Lang Foundation

The Rufford Foundation has a strong interest in nature conservation, the environment, and sustainable development, with approximately three quarters of the Foundation's funding going to these areas. Many other causes are supported, especially in the field of social welfare and HIV/AIDS in developing countries. There is a definite and conscious attempt to avoid replacing statutory funding. The Foundation does not give grants to individuals, only to registered charities. It tends to avoid making recurring grants on a long-term basis and usually does not provide funds for building costs or salaries. It does not make loans.

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Sir Halley Stewart Trust

The Trust has a Christian basis and is concerned with the development of body, mind and spirit, a just environment, and international goodwill. To this end it supports projects in religious, social, educational and medical fields. It aims to promote and assist innovative research activities or developments with a view to making such work self-supporting, with an emphasis on prevention rather than alleviation of human suffering.

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Smith & Nephew Foundation

The Smith & Nephew Foundation is an independently administered charitable trust funded entirely by global medical device company Smith & Nephew plc. The Foundation offers awards to individuals in the nursing professions who wish to undertake postgraduate research with the objective of improving clinical practice in nursing and midwifery in the United Kingdom. It awards £400,000 every year, and is unique in being the largest single charitable awarding body to the nursing professions in the UK.

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Sutton Trust

Peter Lampl OBE founded the Sutton Trust in 1997 with the aim of providing educational opportunities for able young people from non-privileged backgrounds.

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The Yapp Charitable Trust

The Trust gives about £300,000 per year to UK charities working with elderly people, children and young people, people with disabilities or mental health problems, people trying to overcome life-limiting problems such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending, and to charities working in the fields of education and learning (including lifelong learning) and scientific and medical research.

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UK Research Funding

Arts and Humanities Research Council

The Arts and Humanities Research Council supports research within eight subject panels from traditional humanities subjects, such as history, modern languages and English literature, to the creative and performing arts.

Arts Council England

Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. It provides funding for both individuals and organisations.

Authors’ Foundation

The Authors’ Foundation was established in 1984 to mark the centenary of the Society of Authors. It is generously supported by authors and charitable trusts, including, in particular, the Royal Literary Fund. The Foundation provides grants to writers to assist them while writing books.

The British Academy

The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of c. 750 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.

Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-giving Foundation with a particular interest in supporting children, young people and society’s most vulnerable individuals, through the charities which work to educate, inspire, empower or care for them. The Foundation’s main areas of interest are as follows:

• museum and gallery education
• art and design education
• education
• performing arts education
• health, social welfare and disability

Cotton Foundation

The Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of learning and education by furthering the study of archaeology, architecture, hisory, language and art of the Mediterranean area.

Economic History Society

The Economic History Society exists to support reseach and teaching in economic and social history. It does this through publications, including the Economic History Review and a range of textbooks and study packs, through conferences and workshops, through the finance of research fellowships and research grants, and through bursaries and prizes for younger scholars.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. The Foundation makes grants in four programme areas: Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment and Social Change: Enterprise and Independence. These grants are made to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. The Foundation likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan. The Foundation allocates approximately 75% of its Arts & Heritage grants budget to the Arts Programme, and 25% to the Heritage Programme.

Institute of Historical Research

Founded in 1921 by A. F. Pollard, the Institute of Historical Research is an important resource and meeting-place for history scholars from all over the world. It administers awards, prizes and studentships which aim to help postgraduate, postdoctoral and other research.

Jerwood Foundation

The Jerwood Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible funding and sponsorship of the arts, education, design, conservation, medicine, engineering, science and other areas of human endeavour and excellence.

John Ellerman Foundation

The Foundation was established by the late Sir John Reeves Ellerman in 1971. It is a general grantmaking trust distributing around £4.5 million each year. The Foundation aims to support a broad cross-section of national charities doing work of practical significance in the following 4 categories:

• Arts
• Community Development and Social Welfare
• Conservation
• Medical and Disability

Leverhulme Trust Foundation

The Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and ucation. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas, especially humanities and social sciences.

The Modern Humanities Research Association

The Association's purpose is to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities, cultures of Europe and History. It is concerned to break down the barriers between scholars working in different disciplines and to maintain the unity of humanistic scholarship in the face of increasing specialisation.

Newby Trust Ltd

The Trust's general policy is to make grants available to those taking second degrees, mature students and students from abroad with a proven UK educational record whose circumstances have been affected by events beyond their control (but not including students whose funds have been cut off by their own governments).

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies of British Arts

The Paul Mellon Centre is an educational charity established to promote and support the study of British history of art and architecture. Situated in Bloomsbury, central London, it serves as a research centre for scholars, housing a reference library and photographic archive.

Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868 to represent the needs of scholarly historians in Great Britain and to promote the serious study of history among the wider public.

Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the senior literary organisation in Britain, founded by George IV in 1820 to 'reward literary merit and excite literary talent'.

It is responsible for administering and awarding the following literary prizes and awards:

• The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatie Prize
• The W. H. Heinemann Award
• The V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize

Society of Authors

The Society of Authors administers numerous prizes, funds and grants. Prizes administered by the Society for fiction, non-fiction and poetry are worth over £100,000 in prize money each year.

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European Research Funding

European Public Awareness of Science

EuroPAWS, European Public Awareness of Science, aims to encourage and recognize initiatives that produce perceptive television dramas that reveal the interest, benefits, excitement and challenges of science and technology to European audiences.

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Worldwide Research Funding

America Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society began assisting research by individual scholars in 1933. In recent years, since 1989, the Society has awarded grants totaling over .5 million to 2,200 scholars. Today the Society continues to promote useful knowledge by maintaining five major grant or fellowship programs in a wide range of fields. The Franklin, Phillips and Library Fellowship programs award small grants (00 to 00) for modest research purposes. The Daland and Sabbatical Fellowship programs award much larger grants (,000 to ,000) in highly selective competitions. Awards are made for research only.

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation provides grants of up to ,580 (a symbolic amount representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis") to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Lindbergh Grants are made in the following categories:

• Agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources - including animals, plants, water, and general conservation (land, air, energy, etc.);
• Education - including humanities/education, the arts, and intercultural communication; exploration;
• Health - including biomedical research, health and population sciences, and adaptive technology; and waste minimization and management.

J Paul Getty Trust

The Getty Grant Program provides crucial support to institutions and individuals throughout the world in fields that are aligned most closely with the J. Paul Getty Trust's strategic priorities. It therefore funds a diverse range of projects that promote learning and scholarship about the history of the visual arts and the conservation of cultural heritage, and it consistently searches for collaborative efforts that set high standards and make significant contributions.

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that promotes public understanding and appreciation of the musical works of Kurt Weill. To this end, the Foundation solicits proposals from individuals and non-profit organizations for funding of projects related to the perpetuation of Kurt Weill's artistic legacy.

Missouri Historical Society

Founded in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and a trustee of the state since 1901, the State Historical Society of Missouri is the permanent research facility for the study of the Show Me State's heritage. Housed in Ellis Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, the Society is well located geographically and institutionally to meet the needs of scholars, genealogists, family and local historians, historic preservationists, journalists and others.

National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center is the only independent institute for advanced study in the humanities in the USA. A private, nonprofit institution, the Center exists to encourage excellent scholarship and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American society.

Organization of American Historians

The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Since its founding in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the OAH has promoted the study and teaching of the American past through its many activities.

Overseas Press Club of America

The objectives of the Overseas Press Club of America, founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents, are to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad; to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news; to help educate a new generation of journalists; to contribute to the freedom and independence of journalists and the press throughout the world, and to work toward better communication and understanding among people.

Story Line Press

Since 1988, Story Line Press has sponsored The Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, one of the largest first book competitions in the country.

Sundance Institute

The Sundance Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting U.S. and international documentary films and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and civil liberties. In supporting independent vision and creative, compelling stories, the Sundance Documentary Fund hopes to give voice to the diverse exchange of ideas crucial to developing an open society, raise public consciousness about human rights abuses and restrictions of civil liberties, and engage citizens in a lively, ongoing debate about these issues.

UK Research Funding

British Heart Foundation

The aim of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is to play a leading role in the fight against heart disease so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death by:

• Funding research into the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease
• Providing support and information to heart patients and their families through the British Heart Foundation nurses, rehabilitation programmes and support groups
• Educating the public and health professionals about heart disease, its prevention and treatment
• Promoting training in emergency life support skills for the public and health professionals
• Providing vital life-saving equipment to hospitals and other health providers

British Lung Foundation

The British Lung Foundation is unique - the only UK charity that focuses on and tackles all aspects of the 40-plus lung conditions that, on average, affect one member of every family. From premature babies with breathing problems, to children with asthma, and older people with cancer or COPD, the Foundation's role is to inform and support - and to work to improve the quality of life of those living with a lung condition.

BUPA Foundation

The BUPA Foundation is an independent medical research charity that exists to help fund the prevention, relief and cure of sickness and ill health. It aims to produce long-term benefits that have an impact on the health of both individuals and the whole country. The Foundation focuses its support in three main areas:

• Surgery
• Preventative, epidemiology and health maintenance projects
• Health information and communication projects

Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-giving Foundation with a particular interest in supporting children, young people and society’s most vulnerable individuals, through the charities which work to educate, inspire, empower or care for them.

The Foundation’s main areas of interest are as follows:

• museum and gallery education
• art and design education
• education
• performing arts education
• health, social welfare and disability

Community Fund

Community Fund's main aim is to fund high quality medical and social research in the areas of health and social well being.

Department of Health

The research programmes include Health Technology Assessment Programme, DH Policy Research Programme, New and Emerging Application of Technology (NEAT) and Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO).

Economic and Social Research Council

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and our quality of life.

Entente Cordiale Scholarships

The aim of this Scholarships is to enable the most outstanding students of the UK and France to study or carry out research for a year on the other side of the Channel, at an age when friendships and impressions are made for life.

Foundation of Nursing Studies

The Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) is an independent charity that works in partnership with nurses, midwives and health visitors to develop, promote and improve patient care.

Health Foundation

The Health Foundation distributes over £15 million annually through its programmes, activities and investments. We offer a range of award schemes to develop and support leaders in health, fellowships for health professionals as well as career development opportunities for medical and dental students. Later this year the Foundation will be announcing new award schemes aimed at improving quality and performance in healthcare delivery.

Newby Trust Ltd

The Trust's general policy is to make grants available to those taking second degrees, to mature students, and to students from abroad with a proven UK educational record whose circumstances have been affected by events beyond their control (but not including students whose funds have been cut off by their own governments).

Queen’s Nursing Institute

The Queen’s Nursing Institute stands today where it has always stood - at the heart of community nursing: promoting best practice in community nursing care; providing both professional and financial support for innovative community nursing projects and working alongside leading healthcare agencies to encourage the highest standards of public health.

The QNI’S Award Scheme provides the nursing profession both funding AND a year-long professional development and support programme for its winners.

RDFunding

RDFunding aims to provide information for all health-related research.

Smith & Nephew Foundation

The Smith & Nephew Foundation is an independently administered charitable trust funded entirely by global medical device company Smith & Nephew plc.

The Foundation offers awards to individuals in the nursing professions who wish to undertake postgraduate research with the objective of improving clinical practice in nursing and midwifery in the United Kingdom. It awards £400,000 every year, and is unique in being the largest single charitable awarding body to the nursing professions in the UK.

Tommy's the Baby Charity

Tommy's is determined to end the heartache caused by premature birth, miscarriage and stillbirth. The Chairty funds a national programme of research, education and information aimed at understanding and preventing these tragedies.

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Worldwide Research Funding

American Nurses Foundation

In support of the mission of the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Foundation exists to promote the health of the public and advance the nursing profession through the development and support of programs of excellence. It's goals are to:

• Advocate for the health of the public, the nursing profession and the strategies and programs of the American Nurses Foundation
• Expand the Nursing Research Grants program
• Serve as the national conduit for scholarships that will promote entry into nursing and educational development within the profession
• Insure each program of the American Nurses Foundation addresses the multifaceted issues of cultural competency and ethnic diversity
• Increase and sustain the commitment of donors supporting the work of the American Nurses Foundation

American Respiratory Care Foundation

The ARCF is a not-for-profit organization formed for the purpose of supporting research, education, and charitable activities.

Specific activities of the Foundation include funding clinical and economic research, education recognition awards, educational activities, literary awards and scholarly publications. We are deeply committed to health promotion, disease prevention, and improving the quality of our environment. We seek to educate the public about respiratory health and assist in the training and continuing education of health care providers.

In summary, the Foundation seeks to ensure a better, healthier future for all by promoting prevention, quality treatment, and management of respiratory diseases.

Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

ARN's mission is to promote and advance professional rehabilitation nursing practice through education, advocacy, collaboration, and research to enhance the quality of life for those affected by disability and chronic illness.

Association of Women's Health Obstretic and Neonatal Nurses

AWHONN is the leading professional association for nurses who specialize in the care of women and newborns.

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health

The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by:

• conducting research in its own laboratories
• supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals
• research institutions throughout the country and abroad
• helping in the training of research investigators
• fostering communication of medical information

Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association

The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association (HCEA) is a trade association of more than 700 organizations united by their common desire to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare conventions and exhibitions as an educational and marketing medium.

The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation presents Lindbergh Grants for research and educational projects that will contribute to a balance between technological advancement and environmental preservation. Awarded in amounts up to ,580 each (a symbolic figure representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927), the Grants are made in numerous areas of special interest to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, including aviation/aerospace, agriculture, arts and humanities, biomedical research and adaptive technology, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health and population sciences, intercultural communication, oceanography, waste disposal management, water resource management, and wildlife preservation.

William T. Grant Foundation

The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. It pursues this goal by investing in research and in people and projects that use evidence-based approaches. The Foundation’s primary focus areas are: Youth Development; Systems Affecting Youth and the Public’s View of Youth.

The William T. Grant Foundation pursues its goal primarily by investing in research: in health, social and behavioral sciences, such as anthropology, economics, education, health services, political science, history, demography, and sociology; in marketing and communications disciplines; and in those fields traditionally concerned with youth development and mental health, such as pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and social work. The Foundation is especially interested in interdisciplinary research, including policy analyses and strategic communications research. Major Grants are awarded for: Basic Research; Program Evaluations; Policy Analyses; Communications Research/Dissemination Projects; and Capacity Building Activities.

UK Research Funding

All Saints Educational Trust

The All Saints Educational Trust makes personal grant awards to teachers, intending teachers and students in Religious Studies, Home Economics and related areas. Corporate awards are made for imaginative new projects which will enhance the Church's contribution to higher and further education.

Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-giving Foundation with a particular interest in supporting children, young people and society’s most vulnerable individuals, through the charities which work to educate, inspire, empower or care for them. The Foundation’s main areas of interest are as follows:

• museum and gallery education
• art and design education
• education
• performing arts education
• health, social welfare and disability

Department for Education and Skills

The objectives of the Department for Education and Skills are to:

• Give children an excellent start in education so that they have a better foundation for future learning.
• Enable all young people to develop and equip themselves with the skills, knowledge and personal qualities needed for life and work.
• Encourage and enable adults to learn, improve their skills and enrich their lives.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and our quality of life.

ESCalate

ESCalate is a Centre for staff working in Higher Education and Further Education who teach Education and Continuing Education. It is involved in a wide range of staff development activities related to promoting high quality learning and teaching in Higher Education.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. The Foundation makes grants in four programme areas: Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment and Social Change: Enterprise and Independence. These grants are made to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. The Foundation likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.

The Foundation's Education programme covers two broad areas of interest: New approaches to education and Hard-to-reach learners. They look to support imaginative and flexible approaches to learning that are unlikely to be funded through statutory education sources. Where appropriate, they will support the costs of professional and curriculum development, research and evaluation.

Jerwood Foundation

The Jerwood Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible funding and sponsorship of the arts, education, design, conservation, medicine, engineering, science and other areas of human endeavour and excellence.

Joint Information Systems Committee

JISC works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use ICT to support teaching, learning, research and administration. The JISC funds a wide range of projects, services, developments and infrastructure. Most of these initiatives originated from a successful response to a circular or tender, inviting organisations to bid for funding.

Learning and Skills Council

The Learning and Skills Council is responsible for funding and planning education and training for over 16-year-olds in England. Their mission is to raise participation and attainment through high-quality education and training which puts learners first. Their vision is that, by 2010, young people and adults in England will have the knowledge and productive skills matching the best in the world. With a budget of £8 billion the Council operates through 47 local offices and a national office in Coventry. Established in April 2001 their work covers:

• further education
• work-based training and young people
• workforce development
• adult and community learning
• information, advice and guidance for adults
• education business links
• school sixth forms

Newby Trust Ltd

The Trust's general policy is to make grants available to those taking second degrees, to mature students, and to students from abroad with a proven UK educational record whose circumstances have been affected by events beyond their control (but not including students whose funds have been cut off by their own governments).

Nuffield Foundation

One of the UK's best known charitable trusts, the Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield) the founder of Morris Motors. Grants available in Education include:

• Educational Provision and Children’s Needs
• Curriculum Innovation
• Open Door
• Elizabeth Nuffield Educational Fund (Grants for Women)

Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA)

It is a guardian of standards in education and training. It works with others to maintain and develop the school curriculum and associated assessments, and to accredit and monitor qualifications in schools, colleges and at work. There is not a specific Research Section on the TTA web-site. Calls for research tenders are advertised on their website or through the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).

Society for Education Studies

The aims of the Society are to discuss and promote study and research in Education by:

• Ensuring the quality and status of research and scholarship in Educational Studies
• Encouraging debate and discussion especially on educational policy issues
• Acting as a public voice for Educational Studies especially in responding to critical attacks on the quality and integrity of the field
• Recognising distinction in the field of Educational Studies by the award of 'Fellow of the Society for Educational Studies' - FSES
• Sponsoring the world-class publication - The British Journal of Educational Studies as a vehicle to promote the above aims

Teacher Training Agency

The Teacher Training Agency's purpose is to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training in England. There is not a section ‘Research’ in the TTA web-site. If TTA calls for tender for their research project, it will be advertised on their web-site and newspaper ‘Times Higher Education Supplement’.

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Worldwide Research Funding

Association for Institutional Research

AIR, with support from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed a program titled: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions . The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education.

Bradley Foundation

At present, the Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people and among peoples of other nations, as well. The Foundation also supports programs that research the needs of gifted children and techniques of providing education for students with superior skills and/or intelligence. Research programs investigating how learning occurs in gifted children and demonstration programs of instruction are to be considered.

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation provides grants of up to ,580 (a symbolic amount representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis") to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Lindbergh Grants are made in the following categories:

• Agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources - including animals, plants, water, and general conservation (land, air, energy, etc.)
• Education - including humanities/education, the arts, and intercultural communication; exploration
• Health - including biomedical research, health and population sciences, and adaptive technology; and waste minimization and management

Commonwealth of Learning

The Commonwealth of Learning is committed to assisting Commonwealth member governments to take full advantage of open, distance and technology-mediated learning strategies to provide increased and equitable access to education and training for all their citizens.

International Reading Association

The International Reading Association honours educators, authors, and others involved in reading and literacy efforts through its nearly 40 awards and grants.

International Technology Education Association

The International Technology Education Association is the largest professional educational association, principal voice, and information clearinghouse devoted to enhancing technology education through experiences in our schools (K-12).  Its membership encompasses individuals and institutions throughout the world with the primary membership in North America.

Spencer Foundation

The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. The Foundation received its major endowment upon Spencer's death in 1968 and began formal grant making in 1971. Since that time, the Foundation has made grants totalling approximately 0 million. The Foundation is intended, by Spencer's direction, to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. From the first, the Foundation has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement of education. The Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities.

William T. Grant Foundation

The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. It pursues this goal by investing in research, people and projects that use evidence-based approaches. The Foundation’s primary focus areas include Youth Development, Systems Affecting Youth and the Public’s View of Youth.

The William T. Grant Foundation pursues its goal primarily by investing in research, the areas include health, social and behavioral sciences, such as anthropology, economics, education, health services, political science, history, demography, and sociology; in marketing and communications disciplines; and in those fields traditionally concerned with youth development and mental health, such as pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and social work. The Foundation is especially interested in interdisciplinary research, including policy analyses and strategic communications research. Major Grants are awarded for: Basic Research; Program Evaluations; Policy Analyses; Communications Research/Dissemination Projects; and Capacity Building Activities.

UK Research Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

The major research areas of BBSRC are:

• Agri-food
• Animal sciences
• Biochemistry and cell biology
• Biomolecular sciences
• Engineering and biological systems
• Genes and developmental biology
• Plant and microbial sciences

British International Studies Association

The British International Studies Association is an independent academic organisation which promotes the study of International Relations and related subjects through teaching, research and the facilitation of contact between scholars. It is the professional organisation for academic and practitioners of International Relations in the United Kingdom.

British Society for Plant Pathology

The British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP) was founded in 1981 for the study and advancement of plant pathology. The BSPP welcomes members from all over the world and from all branches of plant pathology. They support the professional interests of plant pathologists worldwide and provide information and communicate with their members via a newsletter, website and annual meeting. They organise regular scientific meetings, edit three international pathology journals and make funds available to members for travel, short-term visiting fellowships, student bursaries and innovation projects.

Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK is unique in the funding of cancer research in this country not only because of its policy of supporting all aspects of cancer research but also the broad range of awards and the extensive availability of grants to scientists in research institutes, universities and medical school departments throughout Britain. It provides the full range of awards in basic science , clinical, educational, psychosocial, population and behavioural research available to researchers working in the UK.

Environment Agency

It is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. It's their job to make sure that air, land and water are looked after by everyone in today's society, so that tomorrow's generations inherit a cleaner, healthier world.

Geological Society

The Geological Society of London (1807) is the UK national society for geoscience. It exists to promote the geosciences and the professional interests of UK geoscientists.

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

The mission of the Natural Environment Research Council is:

• to promote and support, by any means, high quality basic, strategic and applied research, survey, long-term environmental monitoring and related postgraduate training in terrestrial, marine and freshwater biology and Earth, atmospheric, hydrological, oceanographic and polar sciences and Earth observation
• to advance knowledge and technology, and to provide services and trained scientists and engineers, which meet the needs of users and beneficiaries (including the agricultural, construction, fishing, forestry, hydrocarbons, minerals, process, remote sensing, water and other industries), thereby contributing to the economic competitiveness of the United Kingdom, the effectiveness of public services and policy and the quality of life
• to provide advice on, disseminate knowledge and promote public understanding of the fields aforesaid

Newby Trust Ltd

The Trust's general policy is to make grants available to those taking second degrees, to mature students, and to students from abroad with a proven UK educational record whose circumstances have been affected by events beyond their control (but not including students whose funds have been cut off by their own governments).

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) is the Learned Society representing Geography and geographers. It was founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical science and has been among the most active of the learned societies ever since. The largest geographical society in Europe, and one of the largest in the world, the RGS-IBG operates at a regional, national and international scale.

The Society supports research, education and training, together with the wider public understanding and enjoyment of Geography. With its focus on society and environment, Geography is one of the most popular subjects in formal education and highly relevant to both life-long learning and fulfilment from travel.

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Worldwide Research Funding

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation presents Lindbergh Grants for research and educational projects that will contribute to a balance between technological advancement and environmental preservation. Awarded in amounts up to ,580 each (a symbolic figure representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927), the Grants are made in numerous areas of special interest to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, including aviation/aerospace, agriculture, arts and humanities, biomedical research and adaptive technology, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health and population sciences, intercultural communication, oceanography, waste disposal management, water resource management, and wildlife preservation.

Padi Foundation

The Padi Foundation encourages and supports underwater science, environmental projects, and education. The Foundation will fund and assist worthwhile projects that will enrich mankind's understanding of the aquatic environment and encourage sensitivity to and protection of the delicate ecological balance of underwater life. The Foundation will also fund worthwhile projects to increase understanding of sport diving physics and physiology that will benefit the general diving public and add to the scientific understanding of man's relationship and ability to survive in the underwater environment.

UK Research Funding

British Academy

British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of c. 750 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.

British International Studies Association

The British International Studies Association is an independent academic organisation which promotes the study of International Relations and related subjects through teaching, research and the facilitation of contact between scholars. It is the professional organisation for academic and practitioners of International Relations in the United Kingdom.

Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation is a grant-giving Foundation with a particular interest in supporting children, young people and society’s most vulnerable individuals, through the charities which work to educate, inspire, empower or care for them. The Foundation’s main areas of interest are as follows:

• museum and gallery education
• art and design education
• education
• performing arts education
• health, social welfare and disability

Economic and Social Research Council

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s leading esearch funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. It aims to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and our quality of life.

Entente Cordiale Scholarships

The aim of this Scholarships is to enable the most outstanding students of the UK and France to study or carry out research for a year on the other side of the Channel, at an age when friendships and impressions are made for life.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. The Foundation makes grants in four programme areas: Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment and Social Change: Enterprise and Independence. These grants are made to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. The Foundation likes to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan. The Social Change: Enterprise and Independence programme aims to enable people and communities facing disadvantage to improve their lives and prioritises those at greatest need.

Experimental Psychology Society

The Experimental Psychology Society is for the furtherance of scientific enquiry within the field of Psychology and cognate subjects. It holds periodical meetings at which papers are read and discussions held.

Joint Information Systems Committee

JISC works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use ICT to support teaching, learning, research and administration. The JISC funds a wide range of projects, services, developments and infrastructure. Most of these initiatives originated from a successful response to a circular or tender, inviting organisations to bid for funding.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. The Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. We seek to ensure that these and the findings from the research programme are helpful in the development of better policies and practices across the UK.

Leverhulme Trust Foundation

The Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trust emphasises individuals and encompasses all subject areas, especially humanities and social sciences.

Newby Trust Ltd

The Trust's general policy is to make grants available to those taking second degrees, to mature students, and to students from abroad with a proven UK educational record whose circumstances have been affected by events beyond their control (but not including students whose funds have been cut off by their own governments).

Nuffield Foundation

One of the UK's best known charitable trusts, the Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 by William Morris (Lord Nuffield) the founder of Morris Motors. There are five Areas of Special Interest:

• Children Protection and Family Justice
• Access to Justice
• Older People and their Families
• Education Provision and Children’s Need
• Curriculum Innovation.

In addition, the Open Door programme is used to fund projects that lie outside these areas of interest - or span boundaries between them - and that address the general aims of the Foundation.

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European Research Funding

European Association of Experimental Social Psychology

The purpose and objects of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology are the promotion and development of experimental and theoretical social psychology within Europe and the interchange of information relating to this subject between European members and other associations throughout the world towards an international achievement of these objects and purposes. Starting in 1999, the EAESP has added an Early Career Development Scheme to its initiatives that is designed to promote postgraduates and young scientists who are members of the association in one of three ways:

• postgraduate travel bursaries
• postdoctoral 'seedcorn' research grants
• regional support grants.

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Worldwide Research Funding

American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society began assisting research by individual scholars in 1933. In recent years, since 1989, the Society has awarded grants totaling over .5 million to 2,200 scholars. Today the Society continues to promote useful knowledge by maintaining five major grant or fellowship programs in a wide range of fields. The Franklin, Phillips and Library Fellowship programs award small grants (00 to 00) for modest research purposes. The Daland and Sabbatical Fellowship programs award much larger grants (,000 to ,000) in highly selective competitions. Awards are made for research only.

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Their goals are to:

• Strengthen democratic values
• Reduce poverty and injustice
• Promote international cooperation
• Advance human achievement

Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc.

The Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc. was founded to encourage improvement in our various systems of justice through both recognition and reward. This purpose is accomplised throught an annual awards program, which honour innovative and effective efforts by individual and grouops.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. In addition, the foundation sponsors small, interdisciplinary conferences on various topics falling under the heads of violence, aggression, and dominance. The HFG Review of research is published on an annual basis.

Institute for Humane Studies

The Institute for Humane Studies is a unique organization that assists undergraduate and graduate students worldwide with an interest in individual liberty.

Sarah Scaife Foundation

The Sarah Scaife Foundation’s grant program is primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues. There are no geographical restrictions. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals for any purpose or to nationally-organized fundraising groups.

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

SPSSI is an international group of over 3500 psychologists, allied scientists, students, and others who share a common interest in research on the psychological aspects of important social issues. In various ways, the Society seeks to bring theory and practice into focus on human problems of the group, the community, and nations, as well as the increasingly important problems that have no national boundaries.

United States Institute of Peace

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Established in 1984, the Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including research grants, fellowships, professional training, education programs from high school through graduate school, conferences and workshops, library services, and publications.