JOHN INNES FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1111527 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.1m

Accounts grants total

£920k

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: Submit completed applications to: [email protected]
Deadlines: Applications are considered three times a year. Submission deadlines are: 31 January , 30 May , and 30 September .
What they don’t fund: The Foundation does not currently provide direct funding to individuals for internships, studentships, or pre-doctoral placements.

Summarised from www.johninnesfoundation.org.uk · www.johninnesfoundation.org.uk/what-we-do/ on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (5 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Animals (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Ireland (2 grantees)
Norfolk (2 grantees)
Scotland (2 grantees)
Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Colombia (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£600k	Studentships (JIC Studentships - John Innes Foundation PhD Programme in Plant and Microbial Sciences)
University of East Anglia, Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development	FY2025	£150k	Research & Translation Grants (Fellows collaboration with JIC)
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£77k	Sir Ben Gill Fellowship
Earlham Institute	FY2025	£48k	Data Driven Science Fellowship
Harper Adams University	FY2025	£37k	Agricultural Bursaries
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£30k	JIC Education Manager
Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP	FY2025	£30k	AIP Seed Funding (Seed Fund Enterprise)
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£21k	JIC Undergraduate Summer School
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£19k	JIC recreation and sporting facilities for staff and student welfare
Writtle University	FY2025	£19k	Agricultural Bursaries
Other	FY2025	£16k	Other grants
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£14k	JIC Outreach Curator
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£12k	JIC Student Voice
Sense About Science	FY2025	£10k	Voice of Young Science training workshop
SAW Trust	FY2025	£10k	Forest Science Garden in Schools Project
Royal Agricultural University	FY2025	£9k	Agricultural Bursaries
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£8k	JIC Rare Books Collection - administration
John Innes Centre	FY2025	£6k	JIC Find My Future
Royal National Agricultural Association (RNAA)	FY2025	£4k	Agricultural Bursaries Administration Fees
University of East Anglia	FY2025	£3k	PhD Climate Change Research
JIC Studentships (John Innes Foundation PhD Programme in Plant and Microbial Sciences)	FY2023	£446k	Studentships
UEA Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development	FY2023	£150k	Research & Development
JIC Sir Ben Gill Fellowship	FY2023	£87k	Research & Development
JIC Chris Leaver Fellowship	FY2023	£74k	Research & Development
Earlham Institute Data Driven Science	FY2023	£70k	Research & Development
AIP	FY2023	£57k	Research & Development
Quadram Institute Amylose Research	FY2023	£46k	Research & Development
Agricultural Bursaries	FY2023	£28k	Education
JIC recreation and sporting facilities for staff and student welfare	FY2023	£25k	Other
JIC Year in Industry supporting science education	FY2023	£20k	Education
JIC Undergraduate Summer School	FY2023	£20k	Education
JIC Rare Books Collection - administration	FY2023	£20k	Other
Other education grants	FY2023	£16k	Education
JIC Student Voice - social, academic, wellbeing and training support	FY2023	£12k	Other
SAW Trust	FY2023	£10k	Education
Other grants	FY2023	£8k	Other
JIC Women of the Future	FY2023	£3k	Education
Earlham Institute	FY2022	£683k	Earlham Institute Fellowship
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£430k	Studentships (John Innes Foundation PhD Programme in Plant and Microbial Sciences)
University of East Anglia	FY2022	£176k	Institute for Sustainable Development Fellows
Quadram Institute	FY2022	£126k	Institute Amylose Research Fellowship
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£89k	Air conditioning for Rare Books Collection
Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP	FY2022	£75k	Pilot of a new AIP Seed Enterprise Fund
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£44k	Sir Ben Gill Fellowship
Food Farming and Discovery Trust	FY2022	£30k	Education in schools and Gaia science event
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£22k	Administration of the JIC Historical Collection
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£20k	JIC Undergraduate Summer School
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£17k	Recreation Centre Manager
LEAF Education	FY2022	£15k	Schools project with The SAW Trust and The Papillon Project
Royal Agricultural University	FY2022	£8k	Agricultural bursaries
Sense About Science	FY2022	£8k	Norwich Research Park Standing up for Science event
LEAF Education	FY2022	£5k	JIC Year in Industry project
Sense About Science	FY2022	£5k	JIC's participation in the Evidence Week at Westminster event
Student Voice	FY2022	£3k	Student support activities
John Innes Centre	FY2022	£3k	JIC Women of the Future events
Newcastle University	FY2022	£0	Agricultural bursaries
Harper Adams University	FY2022	£0	Agricultural bursaries

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 1120639 vs reference 920376 (21.8% 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.