About the Leverhulme Trust

“...scholarships for research and education...”

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the First Viscount Leverhulme with the instruction that its resources should be used to support “scholarships for the purposes of research and education.”

Since that time, the Trust has provided funding for research projects, fellowships, studentships, bursaries and prizes; it operates across all the academic disciplines, the ambition being to support talented individuals as they realise their personal vision in research and professional training.

With annual funding of some £60 million, the Trust is amongst the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK.

The Trust places special weight on:

• the originality of the projects put to them;
• the significance of the proposed work;
• the ability to judge and take appropriate risk in the project;
• the removal of barriers between traditional disciplines.

Leverhulme Trust leaflet

Photograph reproduced by kind permission of Unilever Historical Archives.

For a detailed list of categories of expenditure that the Trust does not support please refer to the funding section of the site.