Wikimedia UK

Wikimedia UK is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1144513).

Wikimedia UK is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, whose objects are to promote and support the widest possible public access to, use of and contribution to Open Content of an encyclopaedic or educational nature, in particular the Open Content supported and provided by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its project grants, typically up to £250, support volunteers to complete activities that work toward its strategic aims. From time to time it finds additional funding to part-fund, and very occasionally fully fund, larger or more long-term projects. It has £5000 in its funding pot in total for the financial year.

Priority Areas

Wikimedia UK’s project grants support volunteers to carry out wiki-related activities that advance its strategic aims. Its named areas include knowledge equity—improving engagement with and representation of marginalised people and subjects—information literacy, and climate and environment; cultural heritage and minority and indigenous languages feature within its knowledge-equity work. Larger or longer-term partnership projects, including workshop series, research and Wikimedian in Residence posts, may receive part-funding and occasionally full funding. Project proposals should relate to a strategic aim. For partnership funding, the foundation expects to help develop and implement projects, use a formal partnership and funding agreement, receive regular updates and a more substantial end-of-project report.

Themes

• Knowledge equity
• Information literacy
• Climate and environment
• Cultural heritage
• Minority and indigenous languages

Geographic Focus

Priority: UK.

For Project grants, applicants submit through the applications page; its template specifies the required information, and applications are considered on a rolling basis.

What to send:

• Partnership Funding
  • A draft outline of the project (no more than 1 page) and a rough budget
  • Your proposal should clearly state which of our strategic aims the project works towards.

Applying again: Project grants: You should only have one application in progress at any one time, but there is no time limit before which you can reapply.

What the charity says:

• Applications should relate to one or more of the foundation’s strategic aims.
• For partnership projects, the foundation usually expects to assist in development and implementation, with a formal partnership and funding agreement, regular updates and a more substantial end-of-project report.
• After a Project grant, the foundation asks for a short outcome report and welcomes evidence of benefit, improved content, publicity images and reflections that could help others.