The first round of the Coast-R Network’s Small Grants Fund is open until 4pm on Friday 31 October.
We are offering grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 for projects contributing to coastal community resilience.
This page provides a summary. If you are interested in applying, please also read through the linked documents at the bottom of the page.
Round 1 of our Small Grants Fund will support small scale, place-based projects involving early career researchers in two-way (or multi-way) research and knowledge exchange.
We encourage projects to incorporate partnership and cross-sectoral working, including active engagement with individuals and organisations with lived experience of coastal change.
Funded projects will focus on scaling and embedding research, knowledge and learning about UK coastal and marine resilience across and between different UK groups, including academic researchers, practitioners, policymakers and coastal communities.
This may involve activities intended to:
Generate new learning, data, approaches or resources
Make existing findings accessible to new and more diverse audiences
Inform policy and enable transformative decision making at the community level
Projects must address one of the following priority areas for research and knowledge exchange:
Generating, collating or scaling up learning across regions, devolved nations, or sectors
Translating knowledge / making research findings accessible to new audiences including practitioners, policymakers, communities and/or researchers
Developing new toolkits & approaches, including for delivering community engagement ‘at scale’
Fostering the exchange of ideas and approaches between coastal communities ‘at risk’
Developing improved evaluation and monitoring of existing projects
Fostering skills for inclusive resilience, including amplifying least heard voices
Share learnings and best practice across sectors and disciplines so as to build UK coastal and marine resilience.
Co-design and host a range of events, specialist training workshops and mentoring opportunities to improve partnership working and nurture the next generation of resilience champions.
Work in partnership with coastal communities and other partners to identify and respond to priority needs using our Flexible Fund.
Collate key insights, case studies and resources through our website, policy briefs, foresight documents, conferences and practitioner events.
Build ongoing practitioner and community-led evaluation and reflection on the activities of the Network+ and funded projects, and thereby shape future learning, legacy and funding opportunities.
Before planning your project, please explore our downloads for more information on eligibility, expected outcomes and outputs and the application process:
Read our Small Grants Fund announcement for full background information
Share learnings and best practice across sectors and disciplines so as to build UK coastal and marine resilience.
Co-design and host a range of events, specialist training workshops and mentoring opportunities to improve partnership working and nurture the next generation of resilience champions.
Work in partnership with coastal communities and other partners to identify and respond to priority needs using our Flexible Fund.
Collate key insights, case studies and resources through our website, policy briefs, foresight documents, conferences and practitioner events.
Build ongoing practitioner and community-led evaluation and reflection on the activities of the Network+ and funded projects, and thereby shape future learning, legacy and funding opportunities.
