Grant Categories

The Trustees’ objectives within their current fields of interest include:

in Science and Engineering Education, to support improvement in educational opportunity in the UK for a workforce which can better apply technology for wealth creation;
in Plant Science, to develop basic research in fundamental processes of plant growth and development and molecular plant pathology, to encourage young researchers in this field in the UK and to support improved introduction to the world of plants within post 16 science teaching;
in Neuroscience, to support world-class experimental and computational research;
in Mental Health, to improve the quality of life for people with long-term problems by improved delivery of services;
in Disadvantaged Children, to explore new approaches to identifying and removing barriers to personal development;
in Local Economic Renewal, to support innovative approaches to enterprise generation and address barriers to social exclusion which underlie chronic economic failure in specific communities;
in Africa, to promote income generation through selected programmes supporting basic agriculture and small scale manufacturing and enterprise in selected African countries on a basis which is environmentally sustainable.
in Arts, to support the fabric and programming of institutions with which Gatsby’s founding family has long connections;

The Trustees occasionally support other charitable work which falls outside their main fields of interest.

Within these categories the Trustees make grants for projects which they judge to have particular merit. Many of their grants are for projects which the Foundation has helped to initiate. It is the policy of the Trustees rigorously to evaluate programmes and projects and carefully to assess when the evaluations should most usefully take place. Generally the Trustees do not make grants in response to unsolicited applications nor to individuals.