Outreach and Engagement Grants

Our citizen science grant scheme is open to members of the Royal Society of Biology who are members at the associate (AMRSB), member (MRSB) or Fellowship FRSB) grades. If you are not yet a member, you can join now to be eligible to apply to our grant scheme.

Teachers who are members of the Royal Society of Biology can apply for a grant to engage your school’s or college’s students, and your wider local community and community groups.

Whether you are interested in aphids, yew trees, or any species across the alphabet; whether you want to find out the answers to specific questions, to learn more about local ecology, or the local impact of climate change or sustainability… If you can work out how you can turn your science question into a simple study that anyone can take part in, to help you collect the data you need to answer your science question — about species sightings, animal behaviour or plant growth rates for example — this grant is for you.

• A specific question your survey or citizen science project will seek to answer.
• How you will recruit people to take part in your project? This could be working in and with schools across your region or with local community groups. Decide what will work best where you live.
• Plan how you want to collect your data.
• Plan how you will process that data.
• Think about how you can communicate your final findings at the end of your survey, study or project, and how to share your findings with the people who will contribute data, sightings, or work to your survey or study.

Please read our Outreach and Engagement Quality Control Roadmap (PDF) for ideas and see two Royal Society of Biology supported citizen science projects featured below for inspiration.

• Signs of Spring Survey 2025 (In partnership with the Field Studies Council)
• Citizen science project to grow beans in schools (RSB Outreach and Engagement Grant-funded)