Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated August 2026). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology
To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.
$6,635,560
2006
5 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$549,400
2016
6 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$500,000
2011
5 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme and Scholarships Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the University’s Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.
$1,039,640
2006
5 years
Office of Scholarly Communication
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year
Transforming library services
To set up a fellowship programme exploring how technology can improve access to information.
$981,300
2008
2 years
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,053
2017
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$99,750
2020
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$96,314
2019
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$90,854
2019
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$81,060
2014
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to PhD theses
$77,967
2015
1 year
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$7,125,000
2024
5 years
Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia
To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$5,750,000
2024
5 years
Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$4,249,600
2019
3 years
Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia
To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$2,304,000
2019
3 years
Five Hundred Year Archive
To support a digital archive of southern African cultural heritage to digitize endangered material and keep it freely available online.
$565,675
2025
5 years
Documenting Mandaean rituals and religious traditions
To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records freely available online.
$348,556
2014
3 years
Bridget Phillips professorship
Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida.
$200,000
2023
1 year