ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 — grant history

Registered charity 206123 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£2.3m
Grants listed (FY2024)
18
Listed grants total
£800k
Accounts grants total
£5.2m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Summarised from www.royalcommission1851.org.uk on 13/08/2026. 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 (13 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (7 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (4 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
  • Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Scotland (6 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (6 grantees)
  • Throughout England And Wales (6 grantees)
  • Throughout London (2 grantees)
  • Norway (1 grantee)
  • Ireland (1 grantee)
  • Somerset (1 grantee)
  • South Africa (1 grantee)
  • Tanzania (1 grantee)
  • Richmond Upon Thames (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Royal College of ArtFY2024£250kMain entrance
STEM LearningFY2024£100kBespoke training for primary STEM teachers
Exhibition Road Cultural GroupFY2024£90kSouthKenZEN+ Project work
Royal Museums GreenwichFY2024£71kFirst Light gallery
Exhibition Road Cultural GroupFY2024£70kSouthKenZEN+ Heat network
Institute of PhysicsFY2024£53kMimi’s Tiny Adventure
Royal InstitutionFY2024£50kScience in Schools
National Space CentreFY2024£50kOuter Solar System gallery
Durham UniversityFY2024£15kCelebrate Science 2024
Big IdeasFY2024£14kLondon Wonder
Fun Kids RadioFY2024£10kWar time inventions
Kids Invent StuffFY2024£9kExhibition / Inventors Club
Number ChampionsFY2024£7kNumeracy in primary schools
Somerscience TrustFY2024£3kSomerscience Festival 2024
British Science AssociationFY2024£3kPrimary kit boxes
Foundation for Science and TechnologyFY2024£2kFuture Leaders Conference / Debate sponsorship
Imperial College Union Design Engineering SocietyFY2024£2kHackathon
Royal College of MusicFY2024£2kColin Lawson Fund
Royal Horticultural SocietyFY2023£500kPlants for purpose
Exhibition Road Cultural GroupFY2023£350kArt installation on Exhibition Road
Exhibition Road Cultural GroupFY2023£300kSouthKenZen+
Well North EnterprisesFY2023£260kSTEM development in Rotherham and Liverpool
Imperial College LondonFY2023£200kGreat Exhibition Road Festivals 2025 and 2026
Science Museum GroupFY2023£100kPower Hall refurbishment
British Science AssociationFY2023£84kPrimary kit boxes
Royal Designers for IndustryFY2023£75kSummer Schools
Primary EngineerFY2023£45kPrimary Engineer Curriculum
Natural History MuseumFY2023£30k1851 Garden
Royal College of ArtFY2023£25kOpen resource for purposeful design
Smallpeice TrustFY2023£23kArkwright Scholarships / General Engineering course
British School at RomeFY2023£20kSummer School placements
Oxford University Development TrustFY2023£15kOXbOXes
EDT-Routes into STEMFY2023£15k
Education and Training FoundationFY2023£15kTechnical Teaching Fellowships
University of HullFY2023£11kHumber Science Festival
Kids Invent StuffFY2023£10kInventors Club
Royal Society of SculptorsFY2023£10kFlorilegium at Great Exhibition Road Festival 2023
Royal Botanic Gardens KewFY2023£10kGrow Wild
All Party Parliamentary Engineering GroupFY2023£10kMeeting sponsorship
WoMarsFY2023£10kSTEM outreach
Foundation for Science and TechnologyFY2023£10kDebate sponsorship
Geological SocietyFY2023£6kMegalosaurus Month
MadeHereNowFY2023£2kWebsite development
Somerscience TrustFY2023£1kSomerscience Festival
J Mallinson and E TownsendFY2023£750STEM materials
GLambFY2023£500STEM outreach

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 800325 vs reference 5172058 (84.5% 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.