Ed Douglas
181 Abbeydale Road South
Sheffield, S7 2QW
Bill Wallace Grant
www.jmt.org
Set up by the John Muir Trust in memory of Bill Wallace, the grant is designed to support expeditions that combine adventure and conservation of wild places. For more information please contact David Picken at development@jmt.org or on 0131 554 0114.
BMC
177-179 Burton Road
Manchester M20 2BB
Tel: 0161 445 6111
Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust (JWCT)
The charity helps people and projects that reflect Jeremy’s passions in life: athletics, geology, adventure and the environment. The trust also provides one or more mountaineering grants on an annual basis to those applying for expedition grants from the BMC and MEF.
Website: www.jwct.org.uk
Julie Tullis Memorial Award
A small grant to assist deserving female mountaineers or any disabled climbers or mountaineers, both male and female, to achieve their climbing or mountaineering ambitions. Applications for the Julie Tullis Memorial Award can be made via the BMC Expedition Grant form, and should include a short covering note explaining how the project fits the award criteria. The BMC will consider applications from individual British females, or a female expedition, with an interesting mountaineering goal. Also welcomed are applications from male or female disabled climbers with a specific climbing or mountaineering goal for the year in question.
Alison Chadwick Award for Women
The Alison Chadwick Memorial Award is a financial award made to either a female mountaineer or an all female expedition.
KORS Retail Expedition Award
www.kors.org.uk/retailexpeditionaward.htm
An award made available to support outstanding expeditions involving outdoor retail staff. The Award will be an annual sum of £2,500 cash that will be awarded to one or more expeditions. In addition, equipment to the value of £2,500 will also be made available.
Mark Clifford Award
www.markclifford.co.uk
A new grant to encourage and support young mountaineers to go to exciting new places. Preference will be given to young mountaineers in new climbing areas that take the pressure off "honey-pot’" regions, ambitious first ascents, interesting ski trips or wild remote explorations especially the international ranges away from the UK or the Alps. Average grant: up to £2000.
Mount Everest Foundation
W.H. Ruthven
1 Sarabeth Drive
Tunley
Bath BA2 0EA
www.mef.org.uk
British and New Zealand expeditions proposing mountaineering exploration or research in high mountain regions. Also awards Alison Chadwick Memorial Grant "to further British and Polish women’s mountaineering in the greater ranges". Average grant: £200 - £1,700
Mountaineering Council of Scotland
Kevin Howett, National Officer
The Old Granary
West Mill Street
Perth PH1 5QP
www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk
Expeditions whose members have a strong connection with the Scottish mountains and Scottish mountaineering whose objective is of excellence and adventure; in greater ranges or pure rock or ice in less remote areas that are worthy of international recognition. MC of S membership required. Average grant: £100 - £1,000. Maximum budget of £2,000.
Nick Estcourt Award
www.nickestcourtaward.org
Expeditions attempting an objective of mountaineering significance. This might be a previously unclimbed face, ridge or summit or a repeat of an existing route in more challenging style or conditions. Applications are considered solely in terms of their mountaineering merit; other objectives are not taken into account.
Average grant: £1,000
Polartec Challenge
PO Box 582
Jackson
NH 03846
USA.
Tel (00 1) 603 383 0945
www.polartec.com/pulse/challenge.php
The Polartec Challenge (PC) is an international grant program designed to encourage the spirit and practice of outdoor adventure. Applications are evaluated on the basis of their credibility, originality, responsibility, and their ability to stand as a role model to outdoor enthusiasts worldwide. Average grant: $2,000 - $8,000
Sports Council for Wales
www.sports-council-wales.org.uk
Email: paul-dancey@wfff.co.uk or philip.avery@welshsports.org
For ground-breaking Welsh based expeditions where the majority of members qualify by birth, parentage or residence in Wales. Average grant: between £500 and £1,500.
Shipton/Tilman Grant
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
295 Blueball Road
Elkton
MD 21921
USA
www.gore-tex.com
For endeavors that demonstrate the exploration philosophy of Shipton and Tilman - small, lighweight and innovative.
The Chris Walker Memorial Trust
Welcomes applications from aspiring Greater Ranges climbers who need help to fund expeditions with the objective of establishing new routes, repeating rarely attempted lines, or visiting unexplored areas. The Trust will also provide assistance to candidates who are undertaking the British Mountain Guides scheme.
www.chriswalkertrust.co.uk
c/o Scott Polar Research Institute,
Lensfield Road,
Cambridge
CB2 1ER
Gives grants towards expeditions, including mountaineering expeditions, that meet its objectives of guiding and inspiring enterprising young people towards scientific research and exploration in the polar regions.
Website here
Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowships
www.wcmt.org.uk
Every year the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust awards some 100 Travelling Fellowships to British Citizens from all walks of life and from all over the United Kingdom. The Fellowships are open to men and women from all walks of life and one category that may be of particular interest is Adventure and Leaders of Expeditions.
Young Explorers Trust
Ted Grey
Stretton Cottage
Wellow Road
Ollerton
Newark
Notts NG22 9AX
Tel: 01623 861027
www.theyet.org/index.htm
Expeditions with most members below 20 years old (not usually undergraduate expeditions) involved in discovery and exploration in remote areas. Aims can include community projects, fieldwork and/or physical adventure (climbing/sailing etc.). New groups and ones with disadvantaged members are encouraged to apply. Average grant: £100 - £500 or equipment bursaries.
