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Welcome to the Foundation's grant portal

Connecting safety, science and society

We support work which helps us deliver our charitable mission and objectives, through addressing relevant challenges and making a distinctive difference. Find out how some of our larger grants are  making an impact in society

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Applying for funding - and our LinkedIn ideas space

At Lloyd’s Register Foundation our approach to grant making is that we direct most of our funding. This means that we search for and select the most appropriate partner and route to impact, in consultation with our community and based on evidence and insight of what the challenges are, where our focus should be, and what are the most effective solutions.
 
We know that we must also retain the flexibility to fund unexpected and new ideas that help to fulfil our mission. If you have an idea you would like to put to us, we invite you to join our LinkedIn ideas group. If, after discussion, we think it is an area we’d like to explore further, we may invite you to apply. Join the group now to get involved in the conversation.
 
We continue to invite applications through specific open, competitive calls and our small grants scheme, below.

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Engineering a Safer World - Currently closed 

Due to an overwhelming response, we have extended the decision date on all applications to 21 February 2025.

Lloyd’s Register Foundation has recently launched its new strategy for 2024-2029.

Our new strategy focuses on three interconnected priority areas, which are listed below along with their main objectives. To support us in delivering this strategy, we are calling for proposals aimed at enhancing safety across these priority areas.

Safer maritime systems 

  • Reducing and preventing harm for those working in growing maritime economies. Ensuring everyone across the maritime system is motivated to work together towards an ocean economy that keeps people safer on land and at sea.

Safer, sustainable infrastructure 

  • Develop new technologies and methodologies that are used safely within broader engineering practices, without causing harm elsewhere. Ensuring critical infrastructure is resilient and fit for purpose to meet the changing needs of society and a changing climate

  • Skilled people for safer engineering 

  • Developing skills for safety, safety knowledge, leadership, and safer processes where they are most needed. Increasing the number and diversity of engineers, and those in engineering-related professions, especially in sectors and geographies where we can have the most impact. 

Up to £1 million per application is available and proposals can take up to 5 years for completion.

This call will remain open only until the funding pool is committed. For your application to be considered as soon as possible, please submit your proposal summary by noon on Friday 10 January 2025 The first invitations to submit a full proposal will be issued by Friday 31 January 2025.

In line with our “Grant Eligibility and Grant Funding Guidelines,” Lloyd’s Register Foundation does not restrict the types of organisations eligible for funding. However, funding is primarily directed towards, but not limited to, the following types of organisations: 

  • Registered Charities: Non-profit organisations with a clear public benefit focus, registered with appropriate charity regulators. 

  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Independent organisations that operate internationally or locally to promote social or environmental causes. 

  • Academic Institutions: Universities and research centres engaging in education, research, or public engagement activities aligned with Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s goals. 

  • Non-Profit Organisations: Organisations that reinvest profits into their operations to advance their mission, without distributing earnings to stakeholders. 

  • Social Enterprises: For-profit businesses with a clear social or environmental purpose, where profit is reinvested into achieving that purpose. 


In line with government guidelines, Lloyd’s Register Foundation adheres to the following principles when granting funds to non-charitable organisations: 

  • Lloyd’s Register Foundation grants must only fund activities, services, or outcomes aligned with its charitable mission. 

  • Funding for support costs is restricted to specified activities, services, or outcomes. 

  • Grant terms require recipients to adhere to purpose-related restrictions. 

  • Grants must not provide personal benefit to individuals involved. 

  • Lloyd’s Register Foundation and its Trustees must justify each funding decision as serving the Foundation’s best interests. 

  • Recipients must use funds for the stated purpose, ensuring public or organisational benefit, not profit. 

  • These principles ensure that all grants to non-charitable organisations remain aligned with Lloyd’s Register Foundation s mission and are compliant with relevant regulatory standards


Lloyd's Register Foundation has a Grantee policy on overheads which relates to all grant applications submitted, please read this policy before you apply.


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World Risk Poll Into Action – Funding Call - Currently Closed

Following the publication of all four reports from the 2023 World Risk Poll, Lloyd’s Register Foundation is inviting funding proposals for projects that use the Poll data for further research and/or practical interventions that improve safety. Grants of up to £250,000 are available.

The World Risk Poll explores a wide range of topics, and we're looking to support a variety of projects that tap into different aspects of the 2024 report findings. You should request a level and duration of funding that’s appropriate and well-justified for your proposed research or intervention, aligning with one of our defined funding categories.  For further information, please read our call brief.

With certain exceptions, anyone is welcome to apply; however, we are particularly interested to hear from researchers and research bodies, NGOs, and organisations driving action-based interventions. We place particular emphasis on locally-led projects and seek better representation from a global spread of countries (though we will remain open to co-led proposals that enable quality and capacity building.

Who cannot apply: organisations whose focus is wholly outside the scope of our mission, as well as political organisations and religious groups.

In order to apply, please visit your application portal and submit the Expression of Interest form, where you will be asked to briefly explain your vision for utilising the World Risk Poll dataset. The purpose of this step is to establish communication with you, and so that we understand the level of interest and types of projects being proposed.

If we are interested in hearing more, we will provide a link to the full application form.


Lloyd's Register Foundation has a Grantee policy on overheads which relates to all grant applications submitted, please read this policy before you apply.


The deadline for submitting full applications is 23:59 GMT on 28 February 2025 and you should know if your application has been successful by May 2025.

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Small grants scheme for Engineering skills and Heritage and Education - Currently Closed

Overview

Lloyd's Register Foundation Small Grants scheme - for grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations.

This form is for completing your application for a grant up to the value above. 

The ethos of the Lloyd's Register Foundation small grants scheme is "a little can go a long way".  

Through this scheme the foundation is making funds available to: 

  1. Initiate, build, or consolidate partnerships with organisations in the relevant sectors.

  2. Test out ideas through pilot studies, proof of concept projects or activities targeting the heritage, maritime and public sectors.

 We will consider applications related to the charitable mission of Lloyd’s Register Foundation.  

  • Projects or activities should demonstrate the potential to lead to future collaborations, clear knowledge exchange, or create/accelerate impact.
  • We are additionally interested in receiving applications related to our Heritage and Education Centre.
  • Please note grants are not normally awarded consecutively and can be no more than 12 months long.

We will not consider applications for:

  • Work which is not within the Foundation's mission
  • For individuals, where activities only directly benefit the applicant
  • Conservation of historic vessels  
  • Projects focused solely on naval history 
  • Capital works
  • School, college or university fees
  • Retrospective funding
  • Lobbying and campaigning
  • Business / first-class travel
  • Core equipment, however specialist equipment would be considered on a case by case basis.
  • Funding for a component of an already-funded project (such as journal publication costs, additional travel, sub-projects)

Upcoming Small Grant rounds 

Monday 24th February 2025 - Monday 19th May 2025

Monday 1st September 2025 - Monday 24th November 2025

 

Please apply via the Lloyds Register Foundation flexigrant portal.

Subscribe to the Foundation's newsletter and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter to keep up to date with our small grants funding rounds.

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