THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY — grant history

Registered charity 207890 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£73.4m

Grants listed (FY2024)

Listed grants total

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Accounts grants total

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extracted from its FY2024 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The Royal Society of Chemistry offers grants to support travel, events, outreach and research, personal support and guidance. Specific application guidance is available for the Chemists' Community Fund.

Summarised from www.rsc.org · www.rsc.org/publishing/open-access/payments-and-funding · www.rsc.org/funding-and-support on 13/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Undergraduates (via Chemists' Community Fund secondary purpose)	FY2021	£1.6m	to gain practical laboratory experience that they missed out on through lockdowns
Chemists' Community Fund (CCF) grants	FY2021	£443k	Primary purpose: relief and prevention of poverty for members/past members/partners/children/dependents. Secondary purpose: support for those in hardship and other charitable purposes including undergraduate practical skills support, lost learning scheme, outreach grants, Windsor Fellowship, etc.
Chemistry for All outreach grants	FY2021	£192k	to help people to change their outreach delivery approaches by implementing the findings from our Chemistry for All research published last year
10 schools (via Chemists' Community Fund secondary purpose)	FY2021	£160k	Elevating Chemistry programme to counteract the effects of school closures and other COVID-19 measures on students' learning
Sir George Beilby Memorial Fund	FY2021	£1k	Annual prize awarded in rotation by RSC, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and SCI

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 (no individually listed grants). 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.