Deadline: Various
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is currently inviting applicants for its “Outreach Fund” to provide financial support to members, individuals and organisations in order to enable them to run chemistry-based public and schools engagement activities.
Objectives
The trust aims to support projects that:
- maximise RSC members’ outreach and engagement contribution
- offer teachers a range of effective curriculum-enriching activities and opportunities to further engage their students with outreach
- provide hard-to-reach student audiences with inspiring chemistry engagement opportunities, delivered or coordinated by skilled people
- increase chemistry and chemists’ influence in public discourse and decision-making
Funding Categories
The Outreach Fund is split into two categories:
- Small grants – up to £2,000
- Large grants – between £2,000 and £10,000
Deadlines
- Small grants: 3 April 2017
- Large grants: 3 July 2017
Eligibility Criteria
The grant scheme is open to all (individuals and organisations). This includes, but is not limited to, members of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member-led groups, researchers in academia or industry, museums, community groups, not-for-profit organisations, arts groups and libraries. To be eligible for the grant scheme, applications must satisfy the following criteria:
- Applicants should seek to engage with members of the Royal Society of Chemistry and member groups (e.g. to inform the chemistry content, to develop long-term sustainability plans, to engage volnteers to take part in the activities). However the lead applicant is not required to be a member.
- Small grants are restricted to two per individual/group/institution. Those wishing to apply for larger numbers of events, for example, should submit a single application for a coherent programme to the large grant scheme.
- Previous recipients of any of our grants, including the Outreach Fund, are welcome to apply for funding. This can be scale-up a project that already exists or to fund the development of an original project. The assessment panel will take into account both plans to ensure sustainability of the project and the quality of all evaluations received for any projects for which we have awarded previous funding.
- Applicants should not resubmit an unsuccessful application unless invited to do so.
- Funding is only available for projects within the UK or Republic of Ireland.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries: UK or Republic of Ireland.
For more information, please visit Outreach Fund.