REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION — grant history

Registered charity 1084165 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£94k

Accounts grants total

£117k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The opportunities below provide members with the chance to apply for financial help to support their work, run networking events, receive awards for excellence, receive help towards the costs of travel to attend both RSA and non-RSA events, and present their work to international audiences.
Deadlines: Application Deadline (Expression of Interest): 3rd March 2027

Summarised from www.regionalstudies.org · www.regionalstudies.org/funding-awards/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Research Networks	FY2025	£38k	Funding for active Research Networks (FinGeo, TKR, KIRDSA, Just Transitions for Cities, EdgeNet, NOIR, SPRINT, ESPPRIT, T2R, MuniFisc, Bridging Governance Gaps, GGVC4SRD)
Sheffield University Management School, UK	FY2025	£10k	Entrepreneurs in Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
University College Dublin, Ireland	FY2025	£10k	Leaving No One Behind? Navigating Regional Socio-Economic and Employment Impacts in the Context of Just Transition
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico	FY2025	£10k	Mapping Remittance Resilience: A Regional Analysis of US-Mexico Flows During and After the Covid-19 Crisis
Various	FY2025	£9k	Start up grants
Utrecht University, The Netherlands	FY2025	£8k	Lonely Teleworkers
Bucknell University, USA	FY2025	£8k	Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation - Comparative Study
Various	FY2025	£3k	Event support schemes and travel grants
Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet)	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Putting the ‘ust’ into Just Transitions for Cities	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR)	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Citizen Entrepreneurship (RSARNCE)	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
EU Cohesion Policy #CPnet	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Regions	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Financial Geographies (FinGeo)	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Transformative Knowledge Regions	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)	FY2024	£38k	Research Network
Regional Studies European Foundation	FY2024	£20k	Grant made to related party
University College Dublin, Ireland	FY2024	£8k	Early Career Grant
Sheffield University Management School, UK	FY2024	£8k	Early Career Grant
Utrecht University, The Netherlands	FY2024	£8k	FeRSA Grant
Bucknell University, USA	FY2024	£8k	MeRSA Grant
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico	FY2024	£8k	MeRSA Grant

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 94060 vs reference 116560 (19.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.