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 Page
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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Heritage Grants Funding Offer - Open Now
Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Heritage Grants Call aims to fund ambitious, high-impact projects that support our heritage key themes and contribute to delivering the Foundation’s 2024-2029 strategy. This £2.5 million programme will support initiatives that strengthen heritage research, equity, safety, and public access, while advancing our global reputation as a centre of excellence in heritage management and learning from the past.
Projects must align with our heritage key themes below:
1. Safety – Shipwrecks, maritime disaster, learning from success
2. Equity & Transparency – Forgotten voices, hidden figures, contested history
3. Transitions – Ships, ports, technical transitions (e.g. decarbonisation)
We are particularly interested in proposals that will scale our impact in any of the following five ways:
- Align with our heritage priorities and contribute to delivering the Foundation’s 2024-2029 strategy.
- Demonstrate collaboration and shared benefit
- Centre equity, innovation, and access
- Have a clear vision and plan for impact and sustainability
- Build capacity across the sector
A total fund of £2.5 million is available and you can apply for funding from £200,000 - £500,000, the project duration is flexible
The first step to submitting an application is to complete the expression of interest form using the Application Portal tab at the top of this page, once the closing date has past, submissions will be reviewed and if successful you will be invited to submit a full application.
Closing date for expressions of interest is 23:59 GMT on 24th November 2025
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Maritime Connected Funding Offer - Now Open
Lloyds Register Foundation launched its new strategy for 2024 – 2029 focusing resources across three interconnected priority areas: Safer Maritime Systems; Skilled People for Safer Engineering; and Safer, Sustainable Infrastructure. The Foundation has been working globally to engineer a safer world for many years, building on the legacy of Lloyds Register, dating back to 1760 as a maritime classification society.
Our experience of supporting diverse projects to improve safety at sea suggests a growing need to connect and strengthen the various industries and organisations, including voices from emerging economies that work across the maritime system. We see a gap which, if not addressed, could lead to unintended and potentially catastrophic consequences. For example, if two different projects in different parts of the world are looking at similar aspects of maritime safety, it would make sense for them to work together, to make sure that they are neither duplicating work nor missing some vital issue. In addressing this gap, the Foundation invites applications that will contribute to ocean stakeholders and partners working together to share safety challenges and co-create interventions that improve safety and reduce risk to people and infrastructure across the whole of maritime.
The Maritime Connected initiative looks to support organisations in the maritime community to connect parts of the maritime system in relation to current or future safety challenges, with preference given to safety challenges relating to decarbonisation, digitalisation, the impacts of climate and safety at sea. It will enable us to understand better, current and future maritime challenges while providing insights and interventions that keep people safer.
This initiative contributes to the Lloyds Register and Lloyds Register Foundation’s study of the Global Maritime Trends 2050 report which analyses future likely emerging threats, risks and opportunities and global collaboration.
For further information on who can apply and what we are looking for in proposals, please read our guidelines here.
Funding from £2,000 to support activities such as meetings and convenings to build skills and knowledge or up to £60,000 for bigger projects that bring parts of the maritime sector together is available.
The closing date for applications is 6th February 2026 at 23:59 GMT, there will also be webinar for applicants held on 3 September 2025.
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Lloyd's Register Foundation Small Grants scheme - for grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations - Now Open.
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 projects which can:
- Initiate, build, or consolidate partnerships with organisations in the relevant sectors.
- Test out ideas through pilot studies, proof of concept projects or activities targeting the heritage, maritime and public sectors.
We will only consider applications related to the charitable mission of Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
Upcoming Small Grant Rounds
- Monday 1st September 2025 - Monday 10th November 2025
- Monday 2nd February 2026 - Monday 13th April 2026
Please apply via the Lloyds Register Foundation flexigrant portal.
Subscribe to the Foundation's newsletter and follow us on Linkedin and BlueSky to keep up to date with our small grants funding rounds.
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Global Safety Evidence Centre - Expression of Interest - Now Open
At Lloyd's Register Foundation we have recently launched our 2024-2029 strategy, reaffirming a commitment to making a significant difference in improving the safety of people and critical infrastructure. As part of this vision, we are launching a Global Safety Evidence Centre, a hub for anyone who needs to know ‘what works’ to make people safer in the face of a range of global safety challenges, including workplace accidents and injuries. Alongside the launch, we are delighted to announce a call for proposals to support research and evidence projects that address occupational safety and health (OSH) evidence gaps, as well as broader safety science work, such as how to measure and value safety and prevention, and how to learn from past failures and successes.
The Global Safety Evidence Centre collates, creates and communicates the best available safety evidence from the Foundation, our partners and other sources, on both the nature and scale of global safety challenges, and what works to address them. It works with partners to identify and fill gaps in the evidence, and to use the evidence for action for anyone who needs to know ‘what works’ to make people safer.
The grants from this funding will directly contribute to the Foundation’s mission to engineer a safer world and the strategic objective of growing the foundation’s capability and reputation as a trusted source of safety evidence and insight. These grants are intended to create evidence to improve understanding and sharing of which safety interventions work; inform decision making; and highlight and fill knowledge and data gaps, ultimately influencing others to act and leading to better safety outcomes.
This call is open to academic institutions, research organisations, non-profit organisations and industry worldwide. Collaborations across sectors and disciplines are highly encouraged. Eligible institutions must be actively engaged in research activities that align with Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission to engineer a safer world, focusing on safety science and safe work.
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. Please consult further information on the Applying for Funding and Managing Awards pages of the Foundation’s website.
- 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.
Applications for research are strongly encouraged in the Foundation’s Ocean Centre Countries; Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh, India, Philippines and Indonesia, and other communities working within safer maritime systems.
The first step to submitting an application is to complete the expression of interest form using the Application Portal tab at the top of this page, once the closing date has past, submissions will be reviewed and if successful you will be invited to submit a full application.
The closing date for expressions of interest is 17th September 23:59 BST.