Looking for your outreach ideas
Our Outreach Fund is now open for applications
From science festivals and demonstrations to school science clubs or science communication workshops, our Outreach Fund provides financial support for a huge variety of projects and activities to raise awareness of chemistry. Led by our recently approved outreach strategy, we redeveloped the fund, and are now accepting applications to all three of our funding categories for the first time:
- small grants: for individual activities costing up to £2,000;
- medium grants: for programmes of activities costing between £2,000 and £10,000;
- large grants: for major programmes costing between £10,000 and £50,000.
We want everyone to experience the excitement and value of chemistry, and to understand that the chemical sciences are relevant to their everyday lives. Our core programme of outreach activities, such as our public lectures and Chemical Landmarks already enables us to do this, and through our schools outreach programme we offer the opportunity for students to engage with practising chemists and learn about the application of the chemical sciences in the real world.
However, we know that these activities alone will not reach everyone. By supporting our members and other advocates of the chemical sciences to put on a wide range of different activities through the Outreach Fund, we hope to reach wider audiences, bring outreach activities to locations far and wide and make their outreach ideas a reality.
Supporting a range of activities
By splitting our fund into three categories, we are able to provide support for anything ranging from one-off events, all the way up to programmes of activities that span several years. We have already funded some brilliant projects at the small-grants level, including demonstration lectures, STEM clubs and even an air show, and we’re excited to see the applications that will come our way at the larger funding levels.
To help us better assess and evaluate the success of these many projects, we have also introduced a new reporting system that will enable us to share best practice amongst advocates of the chemical sciences.
The next deadline for application to all three funding tiers is 31 October 2014. Find out how to apply and let us know your ideas for how to bring chemistry to different audiences.
