Tag: Nuffield Foundation

New grants of up to £500,000 to build evidence on helping young people facing barriers to work

Stuart Mitchell

The Essential Employment Skills Fund (EESF) is now open for projects that will build robust evidence on how best to support young people to develop the skills they need to move into work. We’re inviting applications to evaluate programmes supporting 16-24 year olds to develop the skills, behaviours and attributes needed to access and progress in work. The fund is looking to build stronger evidence about what works, support learning across the sector and help scale effective approaches. It has been developed in response to growing evidence of the challenges…

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Grants of up to £500,000 available – Racial Diversity UK fund reopens

Stuart Mitchell

Researchers, academics, charities and other organisations working on racial diversity, inequality and inclusion can now apply for grants of up to £500,000 each for research projects through the Nuffield Foundation’s Racial Diversity UK (RDUK) fund.  Applications are open, with a deadline of 5 October. A second funding round will follow in autumn 2027, with both focusing on distinct themes addressing opportunities and challenges in building a more equitable society. This year our theme is Inter-generational changes, continuities and challenges in a racially diverse UK. We are interested in the opportunities and challenges of the UK’s racially diverse future, how these change over generations, and how they are shaped by…

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Nuffield Foundation announces £150 million funding commitment to tackle UK’s biggest social challenges

Stuart Mitchell

The Nuffield Foundation launches a major new Strategic Review, backed by a £150 million spending commitment, to fund research and innovation that addresses some of the UK’s most urgent social and economic challenges. The Foundation will commit £30 million annually over the next five years to generate rigorous evidence on, and shape solutions to, intersecting problems impacting UK society which are holding back the country’s future prosperity and wellbeing. The Foundation’s new strategic focus is a response to current global and domestic pressures reshaping UK policy and politics. Evolving areas…

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