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 March 2025). 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.
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s cultural, educational and policy programmes.
$2,170,173
2008
5 years
Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme
To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA to undertake graduate studies at Oxford University.
$2,623,373
2008
5 years
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$110,000
2023
1 year
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$108,000
2024
1 year
Core costs
To help IntoUniversity deliver its mission to establish local learning centres that inspire young people to achieve.
$256,838
2018
1 year
Scholars at Risk
To start a programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk.
$57,285
2005
1 year
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
To digitize items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery, and make them freely available online.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Books for schools programme
To give a copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.
$284,544
2005
1 year
Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
For the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed.
$7,000,000
2018
1 year
Secondary school bursaries
To support young women in Uganda to gain skills that will benefit their lives and communities.
$5,000,000
2005
7 years
An oral history of farming, land management and conservation in post-war Britain
To develop an oral history archive of experiences of the change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after 1945 and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$419,427
2018
4 years
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jewish deportees to Theresienstadt in 1943-4 into Czech, English, German and Swedish, and make the results freely available online.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Religion and Democracy in Europe
To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms.
$19,472
2007
1 year
Towards the development phase of a new film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
Towards the development phase of a documentary film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
$26,000
2022
1 year
To support a new staff editor
Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism which promotes equitable cities and resilient landscapes.
$500,000
2023
5 years
Visiting fellowship
To support a visiting fellowship at the Reuters Institute.
$64,691
2007
1 year
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
To train leaders in global conflict resolution.
$101,560
2007
2 years
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
To train leaders in global conflict resolution.
$89,150
2006
1 year
Expanding the network
To develop the Scholars at Risk network in Spain, Norway and Turkey and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.
$464,550
2006
1 year
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$22,000
2023
1 year