Who they support
Usually education establishments and charities
Grant criteria
Six areas: Plant Science, Africa, Neuroscience, Public Policy, Education, Arts
Grant details
Gatsby aims to be along term collaborative and often proactive partner
Grants made
| When | Amount | Grantee | To be used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27/06/2018 | £165,000 | Royal College of Psychiatrists | A three-year grant to support the continued work of updating the training curriculum and associated materials for psychiatrists, specifically aimed at increasing the neuroscience component to meet the needs of modern day mental health research and treatment. |
| 27/06/2018 | £8,757,145 | Radboud University Medical Centre | A healthcare innovation grant over eight years to support the Proactive and Integrated Management and Empowerment in Parkinson's Disease (PRIME-PD) programme at Radboud University in the Netherlands in partnership with the University of Bristol in the UK. |
| 27/06/2018 | £450,000 | British Neuroscience Association | A three-year grant towards core and project costs to support the development of BNA and its new activities. |
| 18/04/2018 | £150,000 | Institute for Government | A supplementary grant to cover additional projects as part of core costs. |
| 18/04/2018 | £151,963 | Institute for Government | A supplementary grant to cover inflation on core costs. |
| 14/11/2017 | £206,843 | Ascona Meetings on Neuronal Circuits | A grant towards the support of the 2019, 2021 and 2023 editions of the Assembly and Function oif Neuronal Circuits meeting in Ascona, Switzerland. |
| 14/11/2017 | £1,500,000 | Columbia University New York | A grant to support the recruitment of new faculty members at the Columbia Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience. |
| 27/09/2017 | £5,222,231 | Stanford University | A six-year grant towards the Stanford Optogenetics Moonshot for Autism (SOMA) programme in Prof Karl Deisseroth's laboratory at Stanford University. |
| 13/06/2017 | £75,229 | Institute for Government | A supplementary grant over one year (2017/18) to the Institute for Government to cover additional costs/inflation. |
| 05/04/2017 | £1,400,000 | University of East Anglia | To support the activities of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA. |
| 25/01/2017 | £150,000 | Gatsby Plant Science Network | An allocation towards the Gatsby Plant Science Network annual meetings and training weekends (2017-2020). |
| 25/01/2017 | £529,057 | Sainsbury PhD Studentships | To provide Sainsbury PhD studentships in plant science at universities across the UK. The programme aims to attract and develop exceptional talent among young scientists. This allocation operates from 2017/18 to 2019/20. |
| 25/01/2017 | £84,000 | Sainsbury Undergraduate Studentships | An allocation (2017-2019) for the Sainsbury Undergraduate Studentship programme that aims to identify excellent second-year undergraduates with an interest in plant science, and support them to continue in the subject through summer research projects in laboratories outside their place of study. |
| 25/01/2017 | £113,000 | The Sainsbury Archive | The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of Sainsbury’s from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869 to the present day. The Sainsbury Archive is held in the Sainsbury Study Centre at the Museum of London Docklands. |
| 25/01/2017 | £300,000 | Conference attendance for students and strategic ad hoc grants | An allocation (2017-2020) to support students attending the key international plant science conferences and to provide strategic research grants on an ad hoc basis. |
| 30/11/2016 | £1,500,000 | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | We support the acclaimed orchestra, which brings together almost 60 musicians from Europe and performs across the continent. Its education and outreach programme also helps young people and new audiences experience live orchestra and chamber music. |
| 29/11/2016 | £1,083,427 | Federation of European Neuroscience (FENS) | A five-year grant (starting 2017) to support and develop the CAJAL advanced training series, in collaboration with FENS, IBRO, the Champalimaud Foundation and Bordeaux Neurocampus. |
| 16/11/2016 | £500,000 | Royal Academy of Music | Towards the capital costs of RAM's redevelopment project. |
| 12/10/2016 | £2,400,000 | Centre for Cities | A three-year grant towards the core costs of CfC. |
| 12/10/2016 | £318,852 | Institute for Government | A supplementary grant for 2016/17 to cover inflation and additional core costs. |
| 12/10/2016 | £11,284,419 | Institute for Government | A grant (2017-2020) towards core costs of IfG. |
| 26/07/2016 | £802,500 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Towards the RSC's Artist Development Programme, which builds cast and crew skills through training and extra rehearsal time, giving audiences a richer experience of Shakespeare’s work. |
| 29/06/2016 | £190,186 | Cosyne | A five-year grant (2017-2021) to support the Cosyne meeting to provide travel grants and mentorship to under-represented undergraduates, graduates and post-docs to attend the meeting as well as to expand the speaker pool to broaden the scope of the meeting. |
| 29/06/2016 | £296,635 | Society for Neuroscience | This three-year grant (2017-2019) provides further support to BrainFacts.org. |
| 03/03/2016 | £1,000,000 | Royal Academy of Music | Towards the capital costs of RAM's redevelopment project. |
| 02/02/2016 | £1,590,000 | Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme | A three-year grant (2017-2020) to support Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS) and the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School for first-year undergraduates. |
| 01/12/2015 | £180,000 | Clore Leadership Programme | Towards supporting six Gatsby Fellowships within the Clore Leadership Programme. |
| 26/11/2015 | £220,000 | Royal College of Psychiatrists | A grant, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, towards the review and update of the training curriculum for psychiatrists, specifically aimed at increasing the neuroscience component to meet the needs of modern day mental health research and treatment. |
| 24/06/2015 | £68,852 | Institute for Government | A supplementary grant in 2015/16 to cover core costs. |
| 15/04/2015 | £1,400,000 | University of East Anglia | To support the activities of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA.. |
| 18/02/2015 | £169,216 | EyeWire | To support the continuation and expansion of EyeWire. |
| 17/12/2014 | £150,000 | Kenya Markets Trust | An allocation to support the organisational development of Kenya Markets Trust - a non-profit seeking to transform the performance of key Kenyan markets to improve the lives of poor people. The allocation will help KMT with recruiting senior leaders, facilitating necessary changes in governance, developing a new long-term strategy, supporting the Board and CEO in attracting donor funding, and sharing lessons with Gatsby and others. |
| 15/10/2014 | £78,000 | The Sainsbury Archive | The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of Sainsbury’s from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869 to the present day. The Sainsbury Archive is held in the Sainsbury Study Centre at the Museum of London Docklands. |
| 15/10/2014 | £1,812,160 | Tanzania Cotton Programme | An allocation to the Tanzania Cotton Sector Development Programme, supporting activities in the 2014/15 growing season. Activities will include: supporting growers, ginners and extension staff on implementing contract farming; training lead farmers on improved farming practices; developing lead farmers into inputs suppliers; supporting research, multiplication and distribution of improved seed; and engaging on policy issues. |
| 15/10/2014 | £713,250 | Tanzania Textile Programme | An allocation to the Textile Programme in Tanzania to cover activities in 2014/15 of the Textile Development Unit based in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Activities will include: building capacity to attract foreign investment; delivering training to all types of enterprise in the sector; supporting local industry by facilitating business links and enhancing business capabilities; and engaging on key policy issues. |
| 15/10/2014 | £123,783 | Regional East Africa Forestry Sector Programme | An allocation to complete design of a programme in the Kenyan forestry sector. The allocation will support activities including: conducting further due diligence of sector conditions and dynamics; undertaking technical analysis of timber value and processing options; piloting timber product marketing functions with growers networks; supporting the national growers’ association in their current lobbying efforts to improve the national forest policy and law; gaining formal buy-in to the programme objectives from government; developing a detailed budget; and completing discussions on possible co-funding. |
| 25/06/2014 | £150,000 | Transition support for MFIs | An allocation to cover staffing and technical assistance costs of supporting three MFIs (in Tanzania, Uganda and Cameroon) to transition to independence from Gatsby. |
| 25/06/2014 | £90,000 | Kenya Markets Trust | An allocation to undertake two related reivews of Kenya Markets Trust - a non-profit seeking to transform the performance of key Kenyan markets to improve the lives of poor people. One review will examine KMT's portfolio and strategy; the other its governance and organisational development. |
| 25/06/2014 | £198,000 | Msingi EAC - full-feasibility | An allocation to the current phase of the development of an East African institution that will look to unlock sectors of underlying competitive advantage by transferring world-leading technology, investing in lead firms and supporting the wider innovation system across the region. |
| 13/03/2014 | £9,841,630 | 2Blades Foundation | 2Blades supports the development of crops with long-term disease resistance, and promotes their deployment in agriculture worldwide, focusing particularly on developing countries. |
| 25/02/2014 | £15,000,000 | The Sainsbury Laboratory | Towards the five-year research cycle from 2014 to 2019 at the Sainsbury Lab (TSL) in Norwich. |
| 15/01/2014 | £2,500,000 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Towards redevelopment of the Courtyard Theatre. |
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