The RSC Recognition Fund is a special trust for the purposes of advancing the science of chemistry and its application for the public benefit by recognising excellence through the provision of awards, prizes and other means. It was registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales in 2021 as a linked charity of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Created by combining thirty historical awards funds as part of the modernisation of RSC Recognition Programmes, the fund is vital to our programmes stemming back across more than 150 years of RSC recognition and celebration of excellence in the chemical sciences.
Donations to the RSC Recognition Fund
A donation to the RSC Recognition Fund offers new donors the option to make a gift directly to our recognition activities to celebrate, incentivise and support excellence in chemistry and its applications.
As our discipline and the world around us evolve, we will continue to recognise the many types of excellence that are important for chemistry to benefit society today and tomorrow. Highlights for 2022 have been our Research & Innovation Prizes, our Horizon Prizes for teams and collaborations, our Inclusion & Diversity Prize and our Education Prizes. We celebrate our winners in our digital gallery.
Enquire about donating
- Tel:
- +44 20 7440 3358
- Email:
- Fezzan Ahmed, Philanthropy Lead
The purposes of the RSC Recognition Fund continue the spirit of historical gifts made to the RSC and for which the RSC is deeply grateful:
- Adrien Albert Legacy (1991)
- Centenary Fund (1947)
- Christopher Ingold Lecture Fund (1973)
- Corday Morgan Medal & Prize Fund (1947)
- Corday Morgan Memorial Fund (1951)
- Edward Frank Harrison Memorial Trust (1922)
- Edward Horton Bequest (1978)
- Faraday Medal & Lectureship Fund (1971)
- Harry Shalgosky Bequest (2009)
- Henderson Memorial Fund (1946)
- Industrial Division Endowment Lecture Fund (1979)
- John Jeyes Lecture Fund (1975)
- Joseph Chatt Lectureship (1995)
- Liversidge Lecture Fund (1927)
- Ludwig Mond Lectureship (1981)
- Marlow Medal & Award Fund (1974)
- Patrick Meares Legacy (2016)
- Pedler Lectureship Fund (1927)
- R A Robinson Memorial Lectureship (1980)
- Rhône-Poulenc Lectureship (1984)
- Robert John Flintoff Medal & Prize Fund (1950)
- Robert Robinson Lectureship (1961)
- S F Boys–A Rahman Lectureship Fund (1988)
- Simonsen Lecture Fund (1957)
- Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship (1983)
- Sir Edward Frankland Prize & Lectureship Fund (1981)
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship (1999)
- Spiers Memorial Trust Fund (1972)
- Tilden Lecture Fund (1937)
- W J Hickinbottom Bequest (1979)