Don’t let lack of funding be a limiting factor when planning exciting STEM activities – check out the links and sources below!

• See Science list of possible funding sources.
• Primary Science Teaching Trust list of funding for 2020/21.
• Big Biology Day Grant 2020 provide up to £500 for hands on festival activities
• Up to £1000 can be granted by the Royal Society of Chemistry to fund equipment which is out with the school’s budget for practical chemistry activities.  Quarterly applications.
• Funding for sustainable school-based STEM projects can be applied for through the Rolls-Royce Schools Prize for Science and Technology with £1000 granted in the first instance, and a further £5000 for finalists.
• The Institute of Physics will grant up to £600 for new projects and events linked to teaching physics or engineering.
• The Royal Society Partnership Grants offer up to £3000 for schools to allow them to run STEM investigation projects in partnership with research or industry professionals.
• Schools in an area of deprivation are able to apply for £500 from the Ernest Cook Trust Outdoor Essentials Grant to carry out outdoor learning which has a wider benefit to families and their local communities.
• Schools which have not previously applied to Armourers and Brasiers’ Company – Primary School Science Grant, can apply for up to £600 to buy equipment for practical science activities and enrichment projects.
• The Institute of Physics Challenge Fund for those who are keen to ‘maximise the societal and economic benefit of physics by supporting innovative ideas, programmes and partnerships that accelerate and sustain large-scale change’