ROYAL COMMISSION FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 — grant history
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
- How to apply: The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 awards some 35 postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships a year, for advanced study and research in science, engineering, design and the built environment.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Amateur Sport
- Other Charitable Purposes
Where grantees operate
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Throughout England And Wales
- Throughout London
- Norway
- Ireland
- Somerset
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Richmond Upon Thames
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal College of Art | FY2024 | £250k | Main entrance |
| STEM Learning | FY2024 | £100k | Bespoke training for primary STEM teachers |
| Exhibition Road Cultural Group | FY2024 | £90k | SouthKenZEN+ Project work |
| Royal Museums Greenwich | FY2024 | £71k | First Light gallery |
| Exhibition Road Cultural Group | FY2024 | £70k | SouthKenZEN+ Heat network |
| Institute of Physics | FY2024 | £53k | Mimi’s Tiny Adventure |
| Royal Institution | FY2024 | £50k | Science in Schools |
| National Space Centre | FY2024 | £50k | Outer Solar System gallery |
| Durham University | FY2024 | £15k | Celebrate Science 2024 |
| Big Ideas | FY2024 | £14k | London Wonder |
| Fun Kids Radio | FY2024 | £10k | War time inventions |
| Kids Invent Stuff | FY2024 | £9k | Exhibition / Inventors Club |
| Number Champions | FY2024 | £7k | Numeracy in primary schools |
| Somerscience Trust | FY2024 | £3k | Somerscience Festival 2024 |
| British Science Association | FY2024 | £3k | Primary kit boxes |
| Foundation for Science and Technology | FY2024 | £2k | Future Leaders Conference / Debate sponsorship |
| Imperial College Union Design Engineering Society | FY2024 | £2k | Hackathon |
| Royal College of Music | FY2024 | £2k | Colin Lawson Fund |
| Royal Horticultural Society | FY2023 | £500k | Plants for purpose |
| Exhibition Road Cultural Group | FY2023 | £350k | Art installation on Exhibition Road |
| Exhibition Road Cultural Group | FY2023 | £300k | SouthKenZen+ |
| Well North Enterprises | FY2023 | £260k | STEM development in Rotherham and Liverpool |
| Imperial College London | FY2023 | £200k | Great Exhibition Road Festivals 2025 and 2026 |
| Science Museum Group | FY2023 | £100k | Power Hall refurbishment |
| British Science Association | FY2023 | £84k | Primary kit boxes |
| Royal Designers for Industry | FY2023 | £75k | Summer Schools |
| Primary Engineer | FY2023 | £45k | Primary Engineer Curriculum |
| Natural History Museum | FY2023 | £30k | 1851 Garden |
| Royal College of Art | FY2023 | £25k | Open resource for purposeful design |
| Smallpeice Trust | FY2023 | £23k | Arkwright Scholarships / General Engineering course |
| British School at Rome | FY2023 | £20k | Summer School placements |
| Oxford University Development Trust | FY2023 | £15k | OXbOXes |
| EDT-Routes into STEM | FY2023 | £15k | |
| Education and Training Foundation | FY2023 | £15k | Technical Teaching Fellowships |
| University of Hull | FY2023 | £11k | Humber Science Festival |
| Kids Invent Stuff | FY2023 | £10k | Inventors Club |
| Royal Society of Sculptors | FY2023 | £10k | Florilegium at Great Exhibition Road Festival 2023 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | FY2023 | £10k | Grow Wild |
| All Party Parliamentary Engineering Group | FY2023 | £10k | Meeting sponsorship |
| WoMars | FY2023 | £10k | STEM outreach |
| Foundation for Science and Technology | FY2023 | £10k | Debate sponsorship |
| Geological Society | FY2023 | £6k | Megalosaurus Month |
| MadeHereNow | FY2023 | £2k | Website development |
| Somerscience Trust | FY2023 | £1k | Somerscience Festival |
| J Mallinson and E Townsend | FY2023 | £750 | STEM materials |
| GLamb | FY2023 | £500 | STEM outreach |