Our Outreach and Engagement Grant Scheme will open to applications from 5 June - 1 July 2025

The RSB offers a number of grants to help members of RSB who are looking to run outreach and engagement activities, events (including schools competitions) or resources. This year we are also looking for new citizen science projects.

We are keen to support people who are experienced in event delivery, people hoping to organise their first event, and everyone in between. Please read our new Outreach and Engagement Quality Control Roadmap for ideas and inspiration.

We have small grants up to £200, grants between £201 - £500 and now a new grant of up to £1,000 available. Our grant scheme is open to members of the Royal Society of Biology who are members at the associate (AMRSB), member (MRSB) or Fellowship (FRSB) grades. Members applying for a grant will be responsible for the delivery of their activity or event if they are awarded a grant. However members may also wish to collaborate together with additional members or biologists they work with on their activity or event to assist each other in their outreach activity.

RSB Outreach and Engagement Grant Scheme information

RSB Outreach and Engagement Quality Control Roadmap
Risk Assessment Form (template) for use by our outreach grant holders.

This year in addition to applications for outreach activities, events (including schools competitions) or resources we are looking for new citizen science projects to engage with school children and families in the UK or globally.

Any citizen science projects should aim to answer a specific science research question and to collect data to answer that question. To have the potential to publish the collected data or results to share the research findings resulting from the project. And for school teachers, children and families who take part to have an opportunity to see the results of their contributed data, sightings or answers. Ecology or gardening based science questions would make a good citizen science research study. However grant applicants should select their own topic based on their own science specialism, interests and expertise.

Science teachers who want to create a science study going beyond their own school or students’ citizen science project data are also encouraged to apply. To suggest a project based on a science question that interests them and their students to include more schools’ and communities’ data to help answer their question or find a result.

The outreach grant scheme will reopen to applications on 5 June 2025.

Contact

You can get in touch with the outreach team at outreach@rsb.org.uk

The Royal Society of Biology is continually looking to increase our reach and presence. By directly supporting our members in the delivery of outreach events and activities, we can help promote biology further afield and engage new audiences with varied and diverse biological topics.