Grant maker the Nuffield Foundation is offering grants of up to £500,000 to charities, academics and other organisations working to promote racial diversity, equality and inclusion.

The deadline for applications for this year’s funding round, through its Racial Diversity UK Fund, is 5 October. This focuses on “inter-generational changes, continuities and challenges in a racially diverse UK”, said the Foundation.

It added that it is “interested in the opportunities and challenges of the UK’s racially diverse future, how these change over generations, and how they are shaped by legacies of the UK’s colonial past”.

The Fund’s programme head Liz Gilfillan said: “At a time of significant social, economic and demographic change, the impact of, and relationship between, racial diversity and people’s experiences and outcomes across generations is central to understanding how the UK is evolving.

A second round of funding will follow in autumn 2027. This will be focused on the “economics of racial diversity”.

“Our new themes recognise that building an inclusive, prosperous and fair society requires deeper insight into these shifts,” Gilfillan added.

“Through the RDUK fund, we’re looking to support ambitious research that explores both the potentials and the challenges, helping to create a more inclusive and equitable future.”

The Fund has already handed out a total of £1.4m to The Runnymede Trust, British Future, Migration Policy Scotland, and the University of Glasgow for their diversity programmes.

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