Nuffield Foundation
Funds research and practical experiment on social wellbeing, with long-standing strengths in education, justice and welfare. Explicitly interested in work that can change policy and practice, and funds organisations outside universities as well as academics.
- Kind of funder
- Foundation or trust
- Where it funds
- UK-wide
- Indicative award size
- £10k – £750k
- Approx. annual research spend
- £30m
- Who can apply
- Universities, Charities & NGOs, Research institutes, Public sector
- Career stages
- Early career, Established researcher
Research areas
Named schemes (3)
Essential Employment Skills Fund ↗
Funding to build the evidence on how to support young people facing significant barriers to work to develop essential employment skills and ultimately access good jobs.
OpenCheck funder site for current roundup to £500k per awardpulled from Nuffield 2026-10-30Extending Healthier Working Lives ↗
Research and practice innovation supporting disabled people and people with long-term health conditions aged 50 and over to remain in or return to employment.
OpenCheck funder site for current roundup to £750k per awardpulled from Nuffield 2026-10-27Main Grants (Research, Development and Analysis Fund) ↗
Funds projects on education, justice and welfare that generate evidence capable of improving policy or practice. Open to universities and to organisations outside academia.
Rolling / recurringCheck funder site for current round£20k – £750k per awardchecked 2026-05-01