Spending allocation

The Royal Society receives about £45 million in Parliamentary Grant funding each year, of which about £42 million is allocated to grant schemes. In addition, the Royal Society receives between £8 million - £10 million each year from private donations and industry.

Allocation of Parliamentary Grant

In 2009-10, £41.8m of Parliamentary Grant was spent by the Royal Society on grants and fellowships to support excellence in science.

Named Research Fellowships

The Royal Society receives funding from private sources to support the following named research appointments.

Royal Society Research Professorships

• Darwin Trust of Edinburgh Research Professorship (for research in the field of biomolecular sciences)
• Edward Penley Abraham Research Professorship (especially, but not necessarily exclusively, in relation to research in physiology and pharmacology),
• Foulerton Research Professorship (for original research in medicine or such other sciences as are connected with the discovery of the causes of disease and the relief of human suffering),
• GlaxoSmithKline Research Professorship (for research into molecular aspects of medicine),
• Napier Research Professorship (for research into the causes of cancer, including any corresponding or allied disease and the means of its prevention, cure and alleviation),
• Wolfson Research Professorship (unrestricted but since its establishment in 1960 used to support research in physics or chemistry at their interfaces with biology).

Research Fellowships

• Robert and Joan Case Research Fellowship (for brain research in its widest aspects);
• Eliz Challenor Research Fellowship (for research in chemistry, physics, biology or medicine);
• James Ellis Research Fellowship (funded by Government Communications Headquarters for research focused towards the practical implementation of quantum computation);
• Two Olga Kennard Research Fellowships (funded by the Board of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre for research in crystallography or structural molecular biology),
• Locke Research Fellowship (for research in experimental physiology and pharmacology),
• Rosenheim Research Fellowship (for research in biological chemistry)
• Three University Research Fellowships supported by the Ministry of Defence (for research in all areas although concentrating on the applied physical sciences).
• Three Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships supported by BP
• Clore Duffield Foundation Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship