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 July 2024). 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.

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Grant recipient

Scholars at Risk

To give fellowships to scholars facing persecution in their home countries.

$1,000,000

2005

7 years

Books for schools programme

To give one copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.

$284,544

2005

1 year

Scholars at Risk

To start the programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk because of their work, prominence or exercising their basic rights.

$57,285

2005

1 year

Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights

To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.

$1,000,000

2005

1 year

Secondary school bursaries

To provide bursaries to young women in Uganda.

$5,000,000

2005

7 years

Promotion of UK philanthropy

To increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through a programme of education and awareness-raising.

$1,808,500

2004

5 years

Centre for Economics and Financial Research

To develop a new Russian economics think tank.

$1,238,300

2004

2 years

MBA programme

$4,336,000

2002

1 year