THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY — grant history

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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.

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

4WARD FUTURES “4wardFutures have completed the Royal Society of Chemistry funded Creating a Sustainable Life on Earth through Chemical ”
TUTORFAIR FOUNDATION “Since 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry have been supporting our work with highly ambitious KS5 learners hoping to study ”

What changed: FY2021 → FY2022

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2021	FY2022
new	Low Sulphur Fuels	—	£20k
new	Porous Liquid Technologies	—	£20k
new	MetalloBio Limited	—	£20k
new	Alivion AG	—	£20k
not listed	Undergraduates (via Chemists' Community Fund secondary purpose)	£1.6m	—
not listed	Chemists' Community Fund (CCF) grants	£443k	—
not listed	Chemistry for All outreach grants	£192k	—
not listed	10 schools (via Chemists' Community Fund secondary purpose)	£160k	—
not listed	Sir George Beilby Memorial Fund	£1k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Low Sulphur Fuels	FY2022	£20k	Emerging Technologies Competition winner
Porous Liquid Technologies	FY2022	£20k	Emerging Technologies Competition winner
MetalloBio Limited	FY2022	£20k	Emerging Technologies Competition winner
Alivion AG	FY2022	£20k	Emerging Technologies Competition winner
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

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