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Published: 10 May 2024 166 views
Daiwa Foundation Small Grants are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity, established in 1988 with a generous benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd. The Foundation’s purpose is to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It does this by: making grants available to individuals, institutions and organisations to promote links between the UK and Japan across all fields of activity awarding scholarships to outstanding British graduates to study Japan and its language organising a year-round programme of events to increase understanding of Japan in the UK. Daiwa Foundation Japa... continue reading
| Application Deadline | 30 Sep 2024 |
| Value | £9,000 |
| Country to study | Japan, United Kingdom |
| Type | Entrepreneurs |
| Sponsor | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation |
| Gender | Men and Women |
Grants of £2,000-£9,000 are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.
In order to fund as many applications as we possibly can, given our limited budget, we typically award in the region of £3,000 to £4,000 to successful Small Grant applications. Our funding rarely covers an application’s budget in full, but is meant to be a “contribution” to the proposed project.
Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged.
Here is a link to a press release introducing the results of our most recent funding round (March 2023).
UK-based applicants can apply online. Applications from Japan should be posted to the Tokyo Office.
There are two application deadlines each year, 31 March (for a decision by 31 May) and 30 September (for a decision by 30 November). However, the Foundation encourages applicants to submit their application as early as possible. The Foundation is also happy to provide advice about possible applications – please contact [email protected].
The online application for the March 2024 round is available below. You can click on the “application notes” to read these, and on the “application” to begin the process of applying.
Please read the section below (Important) before beginning the application.
Important
The application form cannot handle special characters/symbols. If you are having problems with the application, it may be due to extraneous symbols. Sometimes characters can be hidden (when copying and pasting into the application form). In this case, please copy the text into “notepad”, clean any strange encoding and copy back from notepad into the application text box.
The application form cannot handle Japanese characters, macrons and symbols such as ~ .
Hyphens and questions marks are fine, but try and avoid bullet points. Please feel free to indicate new paragraphs using //.
“Completed” (submitted) applications are imported into our system as word documents and reformatted in-house so please do not worry unduly about the appearance of the text you are importing.
For more details visit: DAJF website.