Assistance may be given to organise small scale (no more than 150 participants), specialist meetings or symposia in Scotland that are outwith the Society’s and YAS’s own programme of meetings.

The actual amount awarded will depend on the size of the meeting and be subject to a maximum of £750 for any one meeting.

Grants may be made for travel and subsistence, connected with research or scholarship, and are usually given for short visits not exceeding four weeks.

The limit for travel within the United Kingdom is £300; for a visit to Europe £500; elsewhere, £950.

Following the award of a Travel Grant no further applications can be made until 24 months have elapsed from the date at which the Committee made the award.

Grants may be made to assist visitors to Scotland from other centres in the United Kingdom or abroad to undertake collaborative research work with a Fellow / Member or to come to Scotland to deliver lecture(s) in Scottish Higher Education Institutions.

For visiting lecturers: Awards may be made to individuals of suitable standing from elsewhere in the UK or abroad, to assist them to come to Scotland to deliver one or more lectures in Scottish institutions. The Lecturer must be nominated by a Fellow / Member who will be expected to act as Chairman of the lecture which should be open to anyone interested in attending. Grants may be used as a contribution towards travel and subsistence expenses, and suitable entertainment but not for an honorarium, subject to a maximum of £350, but this amount may be increased if the Lecturer were to undertake a limited series of lectures in more than one centre.

For research visitors: Awards may be made to assist Research visitors to Scotland from other institutions elsewhere in the UK or abroad to undertake collaborative research work with a Fellow / Member for a period normally not exceeding one month. Grants may be used as a contribution towards travel and subsistence expenses subject to a maximum of £300 for Research Visitors from within the UK, £500 for Research Visitors coming from Europe to Scotland and £950 for Research Visitors coming from outside Europe to Scotland.

Grants may be made to assist in the publication of books written by Fellows / Members. Such grants will be in the form of a guarantee against loss and not as a subsidy or grant in aid of publication.

The maximum amount of any guarantee will be £1,000 for any one book but applicants may also seek support from other organisations such as the Carnegie Trust or their parent institutions. The Society may consider matching such awards and details of any support already granted or applied for must be provided.

Grants may may be provided to a Fellow (or one of his/her associates) or a Member of YAS to enable visits to be made in furtherance of collaboration or liaison between the academic or research institution and industry where consultancy fees are not involved.

These awards may be used, for example, to enable a researcher in a university department to visit an industrial organisation to initiate or to continue collaborative research on a project of mutual interest or alternatively to enable a researcher from an industrial laboratory to visit an academic laboratory for the same purpose. They could be used to support a visit of a few weeks or alternatively a number for shorter visits over the period of the award.

The maximum amount for any one project in a single year will be £600 but there would be no objection to assistance also being received from either the parent or host organisation.