Widening Participation Funding for Academic Departments

For the 2012/13 academic year, £80K is available to support Faculty of Science departments to develop and undertake WP activity. This can be applied for via a competitive bidding process and is available in 4 different streams:

1.  Departmental WP fund:
   This fund is to support the delivery of small to medium scale projects/events involving contributions from a single department. The maximum amount that can be requested is £2,500.
2. Collaborative fund
   To support the delivery of larger projects/events that involve collaboration between or within departments.  Projects submitted under this bid are expected to show large scale or long term impact. The maximum amount that can be requested is £10,000.
3. Activity development fund
   To support the development of new widening participation activities. Additional funding for further delivery can be sought from subsequent calls.  All resultant activities must include an accompanying ‘How To’ guide that could be used by colleagues in the future to run the same activity. The maximum amount that can be requested is £2,500.
4. Equipment fund
   These funds can be used to purchase pieces of equipment to be used for widening participation activities. The maximum amount that can be requested is £2,500. This stream is intended to support the creation of a bank of equipment that is available to all faculty members for use in widening participation actvities. Therefore, succesful applicants will be expected to make these resources available to other colleagues. A register of these resources will be held by the Faculty Outreach team and made acccessible to all staff.

How to apply

Funding forms (including guidance notes and example application) are available to download on the right.
Closing date is 5pm on Monday 3rd June 2013.

Please note: For subsequent academic years it is anticipated that calls will be announced in September and March.