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 on society.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): information for grant applicants and grant holders

Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s London office is closed, but we are all still working hard to engineer a safer world. The health and safety of our staff and grant community is very important to us and we wish you well during this difficult time.

The funding schemes and calls below remain open for applications.

We are aware that the current travel and social contact restrictions could have a direct impact on our grant holders and on agreed timetables for project deliverables.

The challenges differ for various countries and the options for managing the situation could have implications for reporting, deliverables, timescale and resourcing. We will do our best to support you to minimise the impact on our grants wherever possible. 

If you are concerned about the potential impact on your grant, please contact us at the earliest opportunity so that we can discuss and agree a plan that provides the best chance for achieving the intended outcomes and impact.

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Our new process for grant applications

Therefore, we have removed the option to submit full proposals (except, from time to time, in response to calls in specific subject areas) and have introduced an outline proposal screening process for spotting the truly amazing ideas that surpass our existing plans.

All of our decisions are made collectively and not by one individual, and it is up to the applicant to convince us, in publicly understandable language within the form, of the significance of the work for the Foundation.

Once you've registered, at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Outline proposal.

If an application passes the outline proposal stage, we invest our time in helping build full proposals that have the greatest chance of success. In this way we focus our resources on those proposals that we feel are best suited to the Foundation’s unique credentials and lead to the greatest possible impact.

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New Call for applications - World Risk Poll Global Grants

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is seeking to commission, via a grant, impactful research through secondary analysis of data sets emerging from the first round of the World Risk Poll.

The World Risk Poll data will be freely available from launch in October 2020: applicants will also be provided with a licence to access the Gallup World Poll data, and research funding to enable secondary data analysis leading to high impact, policy and practitioner relevant research outcomes.

This call for proposals is open to applications from anywhere in the world. Interested organisations are asked to complete a Registration form initially. We will review this and send you a link to the full application form if appropriate.

The deadline for submitting a Registration form is 23:59 (BST) on 28 July 2020. The deadline for submitting a full application is 23:59 (BST) on 19 August 2020.

Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief. 

Join our Q&A webinars on 18 June and 1 July.

To apply, register or log in below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select World Risk Poll Registration form

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Small Grants scheme - next round opens 3 August 2020

We will consider applications:

• relating to the charitable mission of Lloyd’s Register Foundation
• to support a range of activities including public engagement events or exhibitions, travel for research and conferences, organisation of meetings, and research expenses for pilot projects.
• for projects or activities lasting no more than 12 months
• from organisations
• from individual members of the Foundation's alumni network

We will not consider applications for:

• work which is not within the Foundation's mission
• capital works
• infrastructure
• school, college or university fees
• retrospective funding
• lobbying and campaigning
• business / first-class travel
• funding for a component of an already-funded project (such as journal publication costs, additional travel, sub-projects)

Deadlines:

The next round opens on 3 August 2020 and the deadline is 9 November 2020. Applications must be received no later than 23.59 hours GMT on the deadline. Decisions will be made by 4 December.

Call for applications - Safety of Food -  Evidence Context

This specific scheme is open for direct applications until 7 July 2020

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is seeking to commission, via a grant, research into the role of data and evidence in food safety.

The findings of this research will be published by the Foundation to contribute to the body of knowledge on food safety and will also inform the implementation of the Foundation’s strategy in this area.

Interested organisations are asked to respond to the brief below with a proposal. The deadline for the project’s completion is 27 November 2020. The deadline for applications is 7 July 2020.

Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief. 

To apply, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safety of Food – Evidence Context

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Call for applications - Safety at Sea -  Evidence Context

This specific scheme is open for direct applications until 7 July 2020

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is seeking to commission, via a grant, research into the role of data and evidence in safety at sea.

The findings of this research will be published by the Foundation to contribute to the body of knowledge on safety at sea and will also inform the implementation of the Foundation’s strategy in this area.

Interested organisations are asked to respond to the brief below with a proposal. The deadline for the project’s completion is 27 November 2020. The deadline for applications is 7 July 2020.

Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief. 

To apply, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safety at Sea – Evidence Context

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Call for applications - Safety of Food -  Evidence & Insight

This specific scheme is open for direct applications until 7 July 2020

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is seeking to commission, via a grant, research into the following aspects of food safety:

• I)Occupational safety in the aquaculture industry, as defined below
• II)The impact of improved traceability on the safety of food
• III)The impact of skills and/or education interventions on food safety

The findings of this research will be published by the Foundation to contribute to the body of knowledge on food safety and will also inform the implementation of the Foundation’s strategy in this area.

Interested organisations are asked to respond to the brief below with a proposal. The deadline for the project’s completion is 27 November 2020. The deadline for applications is 7 July 2020.

Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief. 

To apply, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safety of Food – Evidence & Insight

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We are tidying up our grants management. If you started any application form before 1 October 2019 but have not submitted it, we will delete it after 30 April 2020. In future, any applications older than 6 months and not submitted will be deleted.