Grants and Awards
These pages contain lots of information and ideas on different grants and awards in UK archaeology. If you have any further ideas or would like to notify us of a new award, please contact us.
In addition to the list below, further funding ideas can be found in the Heritage Funding Directory. If your organisation or group is a voluntary sector charity, try also visiting the NCVO’s Funding Central website or the Heritage Lottery Fund.
You may also be interested in our Community Archaeology Bursaries Project – either as a candidate or as a potential host organisation - and in the CBA’s Challenge Funding, available to support archaeological projects in England and Wales.
For further information on the CBA Endorsed Insurance scheme, please visit our insurance section and to see more benefits of becoming a CBA Affiliate member go to our membership pages.
- Andante Travels Archaeology Award
- Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries
- City of London Archaeological Trust: Grants for Work in Greater London
- Arts & Humanities Research Council: Major Research Grants
- Association for Industrial Archaeology: Fieldwork and Recording Awards
- Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics
- Awards for All
- Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Research Grants
- British Academy: Conference Support
- British Academy: Research Grants
- British Archaeological Awards
- Cambrian Archaeological Association: Research Fund
- Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society: Research and Publication grants
- CBA: Challenge Funding
- CBA: Grants for Publication
- CBA South East: Grants
- Dorset Archaeological Award
- Derrick Riley Fund
- England’s Historic Places of Worship
- Europa Nostra Awards
- HLF Grants for Places of Worship
- Informal Learning Fund
- Marine Environment Protection Fund (MEPF)
- Modernisation Fund: Real Help for Communities
- Robert Kiln Trust Award
- Royal Society Fellowships
- Rural Direct: Scotland
- Scotland Rural Development Plan
- Somerset Archaeology and Local History
- Ironbridge Institute: John Pagett Bursary
- Leverhulme Trust Awards
- Margary Research Grants
- Marsh Archaeology Award
- Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society: Research Fund
- Prehistoric Society: Conference and Research Funds
- Presentation of Heritage Research Award
- Roman Research Trust: Grant Fund
- Roman Society: Hugh Last and Donald Atkinson Funds
- Rosemary Cramp Fund
- Royal Archaeological Institute: Research Grants
- Society of Antiquaries of London: Grants and Funds
- Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Grants and Funds
- Society for Church Archaeology: Research Grant
- Society for Medieval Archaeology: Awards
- Tebbutt Research Fund
- Wellcome Trust: Awards in Bioarchaeology
- Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
- York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship







