Want to sharpen your plant ID skills? We're giving away free money!

Applications are flooding in for BSBI Training Grants, designed to help aspiring botanists at all skill levels sharpen their ID skills. They are ideal if you are thinking of signing up for one of the short plant ID courses listed on our new training courses webpage, or if you have been accepted onto this year's Identiplant intake. 

You can apply for up to £250 but you'll need to get your skates on - we've already heard from lots of you since we opened for applications on 1st January, so don't delay, apply today! 

Our new grants webpage also gives details of all the grants for botanists of which we are aware, whether from BSBI or other organisations. These range:

• from Wild Flower Society grants aimed at anyone who wants to take a short botany course at a Field Studies Council centre; 
• to the Botanical Research Fund, which supports British and Irish nationals keen to advance in the botanical field; grants range from £200 up to £1000 - deadline to apply for this one is tomorrow, 31st January, so you'll need to be really quick; 
• to BSBI's own Plant Study Grants (aimed at undergraduates and post-grads) and Science & Research Grants (aimed at PhD students and academic researchers).

There really are grants for everyone, whatever your current level of botanical skill or expertise! And if you know of a source of funding which we have missed, please let us know and we'll add it to our grants page.