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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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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Small Grants scheme - this round opened 1 February 2021 and closes 26 April 2021
- for grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations and up to £2,000 GBP for individuals
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)
Any funded work should begin within four months of the funding being awarded.
To apply, register below and at 'Select a scheme to start an application' select Small grants 2021.1.
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Call for applications - Safe adoption of emerging technologies: Review of the skills needed and readiness of the engineering sector
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is seeking to commission, via a grant, research into the skills needed for safe adoption of emerging technologies in the engineering sector, and the plans in place to delivery these skills.
The findings of this research will be published by the Foundation to contribute to the body of knowledge on skills for safety around emerging technologies and will also inform the implementation of the Foundation’s strategy in this area.
The deadline for submitting an application form is 23:59 (GMT) on 21 May 2021.
The total value of funding for this call is £70,000.
Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief.
To apply for funds under this scheme, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safe Adoption of Emerging Technologies
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Call for applications - Safety of digital and data driven systems: Capability mapping
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is looking to commission, via a grant, an evidence-based map of the capabilities for managing the safety of digital and data driven systems. The research will explore the following aspects of the safety of digital & data driven systems:
- What are the current capabilities for managing the safety of digital and data driven systems in different geographical, technical and industrial domains
- What gaps are there in the capability and management of the safety of digital and data driven systems
- What global and/or regional and/or sector efforts are there which take a holistic view across domains to generate coordinated activity
- Are these approaches successful in mitigating future risks and hazards as industrial systems become increasingly interconnected
- Are there coordinated activities bringing safety and security expertise together to tackle future risks
The deadline for submitting an application form is 23:59 (GMT) on 21 May 2021.
The total value of funding for this call is £75,000.
Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief.
To apply for funds under this scheme, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safety of Digital and Data Driven Systems
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Call for applications - Physical infrastructure: Management and maintenance for safety
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is looking to commission, via a grant, an evidence-based report on the maintenance of infrastructure to enable a safe outcome for society.
Interviews with leading experts has highlighted the need to focus on improving understanding of maintenance practice for infrastructure.
In addition to this we are interested in understanding what evidence underpins these approaches and provides assurances that their use will be effective in practice.
Therefore, this work will be guided by the following four high level questions:
1. What is the state of good practice for the management and maintenance of infrastructure to enable a safe outcome for society?
2. What does future safety practice look like for the management and maintenance of infrastructure?
3. What gaps are there in the provision of safe infrastructure for society and what opportunities are there to apply existing techniques from within and external to the sector?
4. What evidence is there for the effectiveness of existing and future practice for the management and maintenance of infrastructure?
The deadline for submitting an application form is 23:59 (GMT) on 21 May 2021.
The total value of funding for this call is £100,000.
Find out more about what we are looking for and the information we need in the brief .
To apply for funds under this scheme, register below, and at 'Select a scheme to start an application', select Safety of Physical Infrastructure: Maintenance for Safety.
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We are tidying up our grants management. If you started any application form before 1 October 2019 but did not submit it, we have deleted it. Any applications not submitted will be deleted after 6 months.