THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS — grant history

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Latest income
£196k
Grants listed (FY2025)
20
Listed grants total
£60k
Accounts grants total
£62k

Write-backs & cancellations (all years shown): 6 entries, −£8k. These are listed separately below and are not netted off the grant totals or counted as grants.

reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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
Where grantees operate
  • Oxfordshire (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2023FY2025
newMind, Art, Knowledge Symposium—£4k
newLUCA, Belgium—£4k
newPhilosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film)—£4k
newUNED, Spain—£4k
newEdinburgh—£4k
newOnline—£4k
newSurrey—£4k
newPhilosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts—£4k
not listed100 years of Solicitude£4k—
not listedLost in the Game£4k—
not listedMusic & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference£4k—
not listedArt & Entertainment£4k—
not listedWales Aesthetics Forum pilot£3k—
not listedArt, Imagination and Morality£2k—
not listedInterpersonal Relations Workshop£1k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Mind, Art, Knowledge SymposiumFY2025£4kMind, Art, Knowledge Symposium
LUCA, BelgiumFY2025£4kMind, Art, Knowledge
Philosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film)FY2025£4kPhilosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film)
UNED, SpainFY2025£4kWorkshop on Artistic Rights: Authorship, Creation and Normativity
EdinburghFY2025£4kFourth International Conference of the Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality
OnlineFY2025£4kPhilosophy on Film
SurreyFY2025£4kPhilosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts
Philosophy, Access, and the Performing ArtsFY2025£4kPhilosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts
Literary and Philosophical SocietyFY2025£3kAesthetics of Improvisation in Comedy and Music Workshop
Pictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic AestheticsFY2025£3kPictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic Aesthetics
St John's College, OxfordFY2025£3kPictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic Aesthetics
Wales Aesthetics ForumFY2025£3krolling award
Scottish Aesthetics ForumFY2025£3krolling award
Philosophy in the WildFY2025£3kPhilosophy in the Wild
Durham and Literary and Philosophical Society; NewcastleFY2025£3kPhilosophy in the Wild
London Aesthetics ForumFY2025£3krolling award
BirkbeckFY2025£1kThe 2025 Edgington Lectures and Graduate Workshop
SouthamptonFY2025£1kEthics & Aesthetics in Schopenhauer & Wittgenstein Workshop
Dublin City UniversityFY2025£1kMusic and Philosophy Study Group
Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference 2026FY2025£1kMusic & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference 2026
100 years of SolicitudeFY2023£4kfilm
Lost in the GameFY2023£4kconference, Nottingham
Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial ConferenceFY2023£4kconference, KCL
Art & EntertainmentFY2023£4kworkshop, Durham/Newcastle
Wales Aesthetics Forum pilotFY2023£3klecture series, Cardiff
Art, Imagination and MoralityFY2023£2kconference, Trinity College Oxford
Interpersonal Relations WorkshopFY2023£1kworkshop, Birmingham
Aesthetics and Political Epistemology conference (Liverpool) organised by Vid Simoniti, Katherine Furman and Robin McKennaFY2022£12kBSA Connections Conference award
BSA Travel Stipends recipients (13 applications)FY2022£6kTravel stipends for conferences or research visits
KentFY2022£5k8th BSA Postgraduate Conference ('Aesthetics & The Body')
Time for Beauty, workshop/filmFY2022£4kSmall grants scheme
Aesthetics & Social Epistemology conference, St AndrewsFY2022£4kSmall grants scheme
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) conference, Open/CambridgeFY2022£4kSmall grants scheme
Philosophy & Comedy conference, KentFY2022£4kSmall grants scheme
A Conference in Celebration of Peter Lamarque, YorkFY2022£3kSmall grants scheme
Diversity Reading List BlueprintsFY2022£2kSmall grants scheme
Zoe Walker (University of Cambridge)FY2022£2k2022 biennial BSA Essay Prize competition
Interpersonal Relations: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Phenomenology, BirminghamFY2022£1kSmall grants scheme
Aesthetics of Public Art workshop, KCLFY2022£962Small grants scheme
Open UniversityFY2021£5kAesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age
KCLFY2021£4kMusic & Philosophy Study Group 2021 Conference
GoldsmithsFY2021£4kArt & Aesthetics of Illusion
CambridgeFY2021£4kAesthetics and Scientific Experiments
UALFY2021£3kDecolonising the Arts
YorkFY2021£2kArt & Affect in the Predictive Mind

Write-backs & cancellations

6 entries totalling −£8k in this funder’s accounts are negative amounts, such as the write-back of an accrued grant or a cancelled grant. They are shown here on their own and are not netted off the grants total or counted as grants above. They are in the CSV with amount_note “write_back”.

RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Aesthetics and the philosophy of gender-based violenceFY2025−£3kAesthetics and the philosophy of gender-based violence
Revaluing the Life Model - KentFY2025−£2kRevaluing the Life Model - Kent
Wales Aesthetics Forum, Cardiff UniversityFY2025−£935Wales Aesthetics Forum, Cardiff University
Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics, NottinghamFY2025−£729Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics, Nottingham
The Future of ArtFY2025−£634The Future of Art
Aesthetics and the Management of HeritageFY2025−£501Aesthetics and the Management of Heritage

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