Apply for funding through the Public Engagement Unit's annual funding call.
Each year, the Public Engagement Unit runs a funding call, the Engage Grants, which aim to support you to build connections between your work and wider society.
The 2024/2025 edition of this call, the Engage & Involve Grants, is now closed and will reopen again in autumn 2025.
There are a range of different funding sources available for public engagement activities, find out more about the funding calls currently open.
Two tiers of grants are available to fund activities that engage people with the science of genetics up to £5,000.
The Genetics Society Public Engagement Grants call guidance
Deadline: 1 March 2025
This fund aims to improve the knowledge and understanding of evolution by the development and delivery of evolution-related educational activities. Projects can be funded with up to €4,000 from a total fund of €12,000 available.
ESEB Outreach Initiative Fund call guidance
Deadline: 15 March 2025
The Natural Environment Research Council is inviting applications for 20 pilot grants that develop partnerships and identify the potential to increase the diversity of representation in the environmental science community. The full economic cost (FEC) of projects can be up to £62,500. NERC will fund 80% of the FEC.
NERC Opening up the Environment call guidance
Deadline: 1 April 2025, 16:00
The ASAB Public Engagement Grant aims to support the development and delivery of activities that engage and communicate the science of animal behaviour.
ASAB Public Engagement Grant call guidance
Deadline: 1 April 2025, 16:00 and 1 October, 2025 16:00
This fund is for individuals, teams and organisations to engage public audiences with ecological sciences or enhance the experience and skills of others to communicate ecology with public audiences. Providing funding is available for projects up to £2,000.
British Ecological Society Outreach and Engagement Grants call guidance
Deadlines: 11 July 2025
The BSPP invite applications to this fund to activities that promote an understanding and awareness of the importance of plant pathology. Grants of up to £2,000 are available.
BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund call guidance
Deadline: Open call
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Join the Public Engagement Community mailing listIf you are interested in applying for any of these funding schemes, get in touch with the Public Engagement Unit. We can help with you shape your ideas, find a partner or offering feedback on your proposal.