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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 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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Upcoming Small Grant Rounds

  • 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 BlueSky to keep up to date with our small grants funding rounds.

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OPEN NOW - Global Safety Evidence Centre - Expression of Interest

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.