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Commercial/pharmaceutical companies
- AstraZeneca Funding for fellowships, travel scholarships and topics e.g. widening participation. Not always listed on website
- Glaxosmithkline Work in the community
European and advisory organisations
- UK Research Office List of European funding sources and UK services
- European Commission Representation in the UK List of European funding sources and UK services
- Europa European funding - 6th Framework
Funding councils
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
- Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC)
- Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
- Department for Education and Learning Northern Ireland (DEL)
Other potential sources of educational funding
- Higher Education Academy Learning and teaching/educational R&D 24 subject centres offering educational mini-projects, workshops, competitions, etc.
- Health Sciences and Practice Educational mini-projects, student essay competitions
- Social Work and Policy Educational mini-projects
- Bioscience Educational mini-projects
- Psychology Educational mini-projects
- Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)
- Arthritis Research Campain Research and educational funding (including sponsoring students)
- Association for the Study of Medical Education Educational/Fellowship funding and student prize
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- British Academy Funding for travel, social sciences and the humanities
- British Educational Research Association Educational funding including schools (membership only)
- British Council International projects
- British Council scholarships database Scholarships offered to overseas students
- The Brightside Trust Widening participation, student mentoring, etc.
- Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowships The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners to spend up to one year in the USA conducting research.
- Department of Health Calls for tenders/proposals
- Department of Health Scotland Chief Scientist/Officer
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Fund for the Development of Teaching & Learning (FDTL) Phase 4 and Phase 5 are closed and projects are in progress, (the main phase for medicine and health, etc.) Apart from some transferability this programme is now ended.
- Fulbright Fellowships US/UK exchange
- The Health Foundation (formerly the PPP Foundation/Trust). Leadership, nursing, student grants
- Higher Education Academy Periodic educational funding; members can apply for small grants via the registration and accreditation arm.
- Leverhulme Trust Research related funding (possibly educational)
- Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Technical and evaluation projects (MLE, VLEs, etc.)
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation Social policy
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Leading science for better health.
- Big lottery fund You need to be a real public good for this one.
- Lottery good causes You need to be a real public good for this one too.
- National Foundation of Educational Research Schools funding (link included for completeness)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- NESTA Science, arts and humanities funding
- Nuffield Foundation Research related funding (possibly educational) mostly science excluding medicine, etc.
- Nuffield Trust Many forms of funding for public good projects
- Royal Society Variety of funding, including fellowships
- RD Info Research and development (mostly clinical) but some educational opportunities also.
- Extensive listing of other funding opportunities including a list of charities RD info.
- Society for Learning On-Screen Awards for broadcasting and multimedia
- Spencer Foundation Educational funding
- Richard Stapley Trust Support for graduates to take a higher degree, Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Medicine
- Society for Research into Higher Education Educational research
- Sutton Trust Widening particpation
- Teaching & Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) Programme is now closed but some projects are still in 'transferability', contact projects for info
- Wales Office for Research and Development in Health and Social Care Pure research
- Wellcome Trust Mostly research funding but possibly some monies for widening participation
- Wolfson Foundation Funds projects which would not otherwise attract funding, wont stray across, e.g. NHS territory
- UK Council for International Education A list of sites for international student support to study in Britain

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