Event Fund
The BAFTSS events funding scheme offers eight individual grants per calendar year of up to £300 to support events (e.g. seminars, symposia, local conferences) organized members of BAFTSS.
There are two deadlines:
Applications are competitive and assessed on academic merit by the BAFTSS Executive Committee, who will also take into consideration whether the applicant (and/or their department) has received BAFTSS event funding in the past three years. Submission of an application for funding does not guarantee a successful outcome.
Events may take place in-person, online or be hybrid.
Applications will be considered at the April and November BAFTSS Executive Committee meetings, respectively. The Treasurer will inform applicants of the outcome of their application within a month of the relevant EC meeting.
Please note: it is not permissible to apply to both the Event Fund scheme and the SIG Fund scheme for the same event.
How to apply:
Eligible Costs & Other Sources of Funding
Funded Events
There are two deadlines:
- 31 March for events taking place the following August-January
- 31 October for events taking place the following February-July.
Applications are competitive and assessed on academic merit by the BAFTSS Executive Committee, who will also take into consideration whether the applicant (and/or their department) has received BAFTSS event funding in the past three years. Submission of an application for funding does not guarantee a successful outcome.
Events may take place in-person, online or be hybrid.
Applications will be considered at the April and November BAFTSS Executive Committee meetings, respectively. The Treasurer will inform applicants of the outcome of their application within a month of the relevant EC meeting.
Please note: it is not permissible to apply to both the Event Fund scheme and the SIG Fund scheme for the same event.
How to apply:
- Complete the form, below.
- You must be a member of BAFTSS.
- Funding applications must accord with the objectives of BAFTSS as set out on our website https://www.baftss.org
- Events organised by BAFTSS student members require the approval and signature of your PGR Director/Supervisor.
Eligible Costs & Other Sources of Funding
- Costs caps: Per event, BAFTSS will contribute a maximum of £150 towards honoraria for invited speakers and £75 towards alcohol costs, at the discretion of the BAFTSS EC.
- If BAFTSS event funding is to support travel bursaries to attend your event, recipients of those bursaries must be current BAFTSS members
- Events may be open to the public, directed at PGRs, ECRs and/or the broader academic community. You may charge for the event, but if you do so a clear rationale should be made in the application and a proposed registration fee stated.
- Co-funding may be secured from elsewhere towards the cost of your event. You should indicate where any other support is available.
- We do not fund Zoom (or similar) subscriptions.
Funded Events
- The event organiser will liaise with the BAFTSS Treasurer to arrange transfer of funds.
- The event must be advertised through the BAFTSS jiscmail list, and all materials associated with it must acknowledge BAFTSS support and display the BAFTSS logo.
- Event report & Receipts: within 6 weeks of the event, you must submit:
- A short report (c.250-words). You may include images. This report will be publicly available on the BAFTSS website. Reports of prior events can be found here: https://www.baftss.org/funding.html
- Receipts that evidence how the BAFTSS funding was used. Any changes to the budget outlined in the initial funding application should be agreed in advance with the Treasurer. Any funding awarded that cannot be accounted for should be returned to BAFTSS.