Frederick Soddy Schools Award
About the Awards
The Frederick Soddy Schools Award scheme was created in 2018 when the Frederick Soddy Trust became a linked charity of the Society, creating a new set of grants, the Frederick Soddy Awards, to support school and student fieldwork and expeditions. Prior to 2018 the Frederick Soddy Schools Award was promoted for the Frederick Soddy Trust by the Geographical Association.
Schools often find it difficult to compete successfully for funds from the main grant-giving bodies or to allocate their own resources to field studies. The aim of the Frederick Soddy Schools Awards is to encourage field studies by providing financial support specifically for this work.
These awards are given to teachers leading groups of school pupils. Applications are welcomed from UK and Ireland schools planning fieldwork involving a strong element of human geography. Awards are made of £200 to £600, and cannot support the costs of physical resources. Preference will be given to schools which have not been supported in the previous year’s awards.
Deadline: 3 February
Apply now
Please read the application guidelines and, using the form provided, submit your application by email to grants@rgs.org
Decisions on applications are normally communicated by mid-March.
2025 recipients
Lathom Junior School - Investigating a local place
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - Y5 Residential Trip to Leeson House, Dorset
Kirkbie Kendal School - Y9 Energy fieldwork
Camden School for Girls - Loch Ossian Adventure
North Nibley Primary School - Enhancing Fieldwork Skills: The twelve wonders of Nibley/South Gloucestershire
Beaumont Leys School - Snowdon Challenge
Westlands School - Olympic Park Regeneration fieldwork for yr 10 geography students
Derby Cathedral School - A-Level Geography Fieldwork
2024 recipients
High Ongar Primary School - Our Street
Ardnamurchan High School - Carna Hope Week
Bolder Academy - A Level Geography Fieldwork
Woodlands Primary School - River Fieldwork Study – Year 5 Pupils
Holy Family Catholic School and Sixth Form - Year 10 Fieldwork — Rivers & Urban Study
Islington Arts and Media School - Exploring Transport and Transformation on the Thames
Pedmore High School - Carding Mill Valley river study
Ferndown Middle School - Year 7 Trip to Lulworth Cove
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy - Year 10 Geography trip
2023 recipients
Barrhead High School - Loch Lomond field trip
Hillhead Primary School - Ardentinny residential trip
Reading Blue Coat School - A Level fieldwork in Carlisle: coasts, hydrology and fluvial geomorphology
Glade Primary School - Cambridge field trip
Heworth CE Primary - fieldwork study
Foxyards Academy - lower Key Stage 2 geography fieldwork, Carding Mill Valley
Leopold Primary - Year 3 visit, River Thames and complete workshop
2022 recipients
Highgate Wood School - A Level residential fieldtrip to Snowdonia, North Wales
Blenheim High School - Year 12 Watchet Together, Somerset
Victoria Primary School - Ingleborough fieldtrip, Yorkshire Dales
Five Islands Academy - Geography Year 10 fieldwork
Elliott Hudson College - A Level residential fieldwork - Blencathra FSC
2019 recipients
Tarbert Academy - Field trip to Millport, Isle of Cumbrae
Drybrook Primary School - Viney Hill Christian Adventure Centre in the Forest of Dean
Packmoore Ormiston Academy - Field trip to Poole's Cavern, Peak District
Dunalley School - Tom Robert's Adventure Centre, Gloucestershire
St Thomas the Apostle School and Sixth Form College - Field trip to Overstrand, Norfolk
Cape Cornwall School - Field trip to Eden Project
Highgate Wood School - Field trip to Snowdonia
Girlguiding UK - Girlguiding LaSER Thailand Expedition
Invergordon Academy - Nepal Expedition