British Science Week – Community Grant Scheme

Description

Grants are available for community-based groups and organisations in the UK to create events or activities that engage under-represented audiences as part of British Science Week (BSW).

Application Deadline: 09 November 2020

Details

Maximum Value: £ 2,000

Minimum Value: £ 500

Value Notes

Two levels of grants are available:

• £500 grants to run one or more events during British Science Week.
• £2,000 grants to run one or more events during British Science Week, as well as follow-up activities that will lead to continued engagement after British Science Week.

Extended Description

British Science Week (BSW) is an annual programme of science, technology, engineering, and maths events and activities that takes place across the UK in March each year.

BSW is coordinated by the British Science Association (BSA) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a non-departmental public body funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The aim of the BSW Community Grants Scheme is to expand the audiences that engage with science and self-identify as having an interest in science by empowering and supporting community groups to run their own science activities during British Science Week. Community-based groups and organisations in the UK that work directly with people who are traditionally hard-to-reach and currently not engaged in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activity can apply.

Latest Information

Applications for projects to take place during British Science Week 2021 are now open and can be submitted until 5pm on 9 November 2020.

Key Criteria

Applications will be considered from community groups that work directly with audiences who are traditionally under-represented and currently not engaged in science activity.

Groups that are underrepresented in science include:

• People who are Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME).
• People with low socio economic status (SES), including people disadvantaged in terms of education and income.
• People with a physical or mental condition or impairment.
• People living in a remote and rural location, defined as settlements of less than 10,000 people.
• Girls and women.

For more details on this scheme please visit their website here  British Science Week – Grants