Ingenious public engagement grants scheme: Royal Academy of Engineering
Ingenious is a public engagement grants scheme for projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering while providing engineers with skills and opportunities in public engagement.
If you have any questions concerning the scheme or the online applications system, please email engagement@raeng.org.uk
The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Outreach Fund
The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Outreach Fund is open for applications of up to £10,000 to support chemistry-based public and schools engagement activities. The final deadline for applications is Friday 3rd October 2025.
The Outreach Fund supports projects that bring people from all backgrounds closer to the chemical sciences and the chemical sciences closer to people’s lives. If you are working with schools, young people, families or the wider public in the UK/ROI the Outreach Fund can help you make a bigger difference. This funding is open to eligible (registered/resident UK/ROI) organisations and individuals across sectors. You do not need to be based in a school or university to apply.
The scheme provides grants of up to £3,500 to small museums, funding projects that tell the stories of science and scientists relevant to communities across the UK.
We want to fund projects that
highlight the topics, stories and people that are relevant to your local community
present science in new and interesting ways
encourage participation and involvement of the local community
provoke curiosity, interest and enthusiasm among those that take part
We are particularly interested in projects that
explore the experiences of historically underrepresented people
are led by organisations that don’t normally feature scientific content
involve partners that can enhance the project’s outcomes, impact or quality
reach audiences who do not normally engage with science
We love to hear about projects taking place at your museum and beyond; including but not limited to schools, community spaces, in nature, etc. We also encourage involving your local communities in any capacity – as participants, volunteers, or lived experience contributors and advisors.
We also strongly welcome applications from projects that align with the themes of the Natural History Museum’s Fixing Our Broken Planet programme. In April 2025, the Natural History Museum opened a new gallery which explores the biggest challenges facing the planet and science-backed, hopeful solutions which help us to create a more sustainable world. The gallery and associated programme delve into the themes of the food we eat, the energy we consume, the stuff we use, and the impact of all of this on our health. Through a Community of Practice, UK-wide organisations are supported to build best practice around communicating these themes through a skills and knowledge sharing programme.
Applications will close at 12pm on Wednesday 12 November 2025.
Education & Outreach Small Grants Scheme, Royal Astronomical Society
A range of public outreach activities are funded, such as development of public events, training workshops, broadcasting or podcasting, and development of educational material. Bids for funds for general equipment such as telescopes, laptop computers, scanners, digital projectors and the like have met with little success to date, even where the basis for the application to the E&O Fund was for promoting public understanding or other purposes relevant to the aims of the Society. The Society is willing to consider applications to get schemes going but will not provide a subsidy to ongoing educational projects.
The maximum E&O grant that can be applied for is £5,000 and at most one award per year will be made to any one person/ organisation. A budgetary breakdown of the whole project (not just the amount asked for) must be included.
