Who funded us in 2018/19
Grant and donations income (≥ £5,000)
Funder | Amount1 | What the funding was for |
Open Society Foundation | £62,725 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation | £60,000 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
Building Change Trust | £59,500 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
Omidyar Network | £43,693 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust | £42,500 | Core funding |
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation | £40,000 | Coalition for Deliberative Democracy |
Big Lottery Fund (via the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) | £31,493 | Running the Open Government Pioneers Project in England and Coordinating the UK Open Government Network. |
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland | £30,000 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation | £20,000 | Citizens’ Assembly for Northern Ireland |
Wellcome | £16,573 | MH:2K programme. |
Consultancy and training income (≥ £5,000)
Funder | Amount2 | What the funding is for |
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | £225,000 (estimated) | Sciencewise programme. This programme will continue into 2019/20. |
UK Parliament (Health and Social Care Select Committee & Housing, Communities, and Local Government Select Committee) |
£47,400 | Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care |
The Home Office | £36,796 | Civil Society Open Space process for Home Office Law Enforcement Data Service and Home Office Biometrics work. Further funding for this work is expected in 2019/20. |
Deepmind Technologies Ltd | £31,171 | Roundtables with professional stakeholders interested in Artificial Intelligence, ethics and public engagement. |
Open Data Institute | £28,128 | Design of a decision-making process for pilot data trust. |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | £21,657 | Residents Reference Panel on Building Safety in High Rise Residential Buildings. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
Northern Gas Networks Ltd | £18,775 | NGN Public Panel for RIIO-2 Business Plan. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
NESTA | £18,208 | Public dialogue on Artificial Intelligence |
The Scottish Government | £18,000 | Part-time secondment to develop a Participation Framework for the Scottish Government. This work, including further funding, will continue into 2019/20. |
Open Government Partnership | £16,413 | Research and a paper for the OGP on citizens, social movements and the OGP. |
Guardian News and Media | £16,033 | Workshops and materials for the Guardian’s Gene Gap project. |
The Scottish Government | £15,100 | Supporting the Scottish Government’s public engagement on attitudes to agriculture, environment and rural priorities. |
Carnegie UK Trust | £12,090 | Data sharing and public benefit. We also received funding for this project in 2017/18 from Carnegie UK Trust and The Wellcome Trust. |
OECD | £10,000 | Open local government handbook |
The University of Sheffield (in turn, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council) | £5,057 | UK political party reform. We also received funding for this project in 2017/18 from the University of Sheffield. |