The Academy thanks our donors and partners
Thanks to our donors and partners we are making great strides in tackling shared challenges. In 2024/25, Academy supporters contributed £4,689,258 to our work supporting us in achievements such as:
- $39 million raised by Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Alumni since 2014
- 333 Spinouts and Startups supported through our 12 month Enterprise Fellowships Programme
- 75 Amazon Future Engineer Bursary recipients benefited as the scheme passes a major landmark of £1million awarded.
- 30% of young people said they would 'definitely' consider a career in engineering after seeing season 12 of our This is Engineering campaign compared to 18% in 2018.
Read more about the impact our donors & partners allow us to make
Individual donors
Fellows, friends, awardees and Academy staff who have given in the last three years.
Benefactors
- Dr Antony Trapp MBE FREng
Patrons
- Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng
- David Gammon HonFREng
- Dr Philip O’Donovan FREng
- Sir John Parker GBE FREng
Major donors
- Maria Dramalioti-Taylor
- Professor Paddy Farrell FREng
- Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng
- Professor Peter Goodhew CBE
FREng - Chad Holliday FREng
- Dr Xudong Jing FREng
Professor Sir Jim McDonald GBE
FREng FRSE - Hilary Mercer FREng
Donors
- Kathleen Atkinson, in memory
of her late husband Professor
Bernard Atkinson OBE FREng - Samantha Bagchi
- David Ball FREng
- Charles Betts CB FREng
- Dr Fawaz Bitar FREng
- Peter Blair OBE FREng
- Adam Bodnar FREng
- The late John Bolter FREng
- Professor Julian Bommer FREng
- Sir Peter Bonfield CBE FREng
- Professor John Bourne FREng
- Sir Richard Brook OBE FREng
- Baroness Julia Brown DBe FREng FRS FMedSci
- John Bryant FREng
- Annette Bullen
- Basil Butler CBE FREng
- Peter Chamberlain FREng
- Dr Andrew Charles FREng
- Dr Nikolay Cherkasov
- Professor Jan Cilliers FREng
- Professor David Clarke FREng
FRS - Sir Anthony Cleaver HonFREng
- Allan Cook CBE FREng
- Edmund Crowdy VRD FREng
- Ed Daniels FREng
- Professor David Delpy CBE
FREng FMedSci FRS - Professor Yulong Ding FREng
- Nick Donofrio FREng
- Professor Bob Dover CBE FREng
- John Durston FREng
- Peter East OBE FREng
- Professor Rodney Eatock Taylor
FREng - The late John Evans OBE JP
FREng - Professor William Fairney FREng
- Dr John Ferrie CBE FREng
- Dr Allan Fox FREng
- Ian Funnell FREng
- Tony Gibbs CHB FREng
- Professor Peter Grant OBE
FREng FRSE - Professor Sir Iain Gray CBE
FREng FRSE - Philip Greenish CBE HonFREng
- Raymond Hall CBE FREng
- Professor Christopher Hall FREng
FRSE - The late Sir David Harrison CBE
FREng - The late Richard Haryott FREng
- Dr Jeffrey Herbert FREng
- Sir Robert Hill KBE FREng
- Professor Sir Tony Hoare FREng
FRS - Nic Holt FREng
- Professor Kirill Horoshenkov
FREng - Dr Mike Howse CBE FREng
- Nigel Hughes FREng
- Stewart John OBE FREng
- The late Alan Johnston FREng
Jeffrey Jupp FREng - Professor Bernard Kelly FREng
- Professor Roger Kemp MBE
FREng - Derek Kingsbury CBE FREng
- Paul Kumleben
- The late Noel Lakin FREng
- Emeritus Professor Brian
Launder FREng FRS - Professor Ian Liddell CBE FREng
- Geoffrey Lomer CBE FREng
- John Longden FREng
- Professor Malcolm Macleod
FREng - Professor Asad Madni FREng
HonFRSE - Air Vice Marshal John Main CB
OBE FREng - Professor Geoffrey Maitland CBE
FREng - Dr Allan Mann FREng
- Sir Robert Margetts CBE FREng
- Professor Marie-Madeleine
Martinet - The late Derek Mason FREng,
donations from friends and
family in his memory - Clare Mason
- Trevor Massey OBE FREng
- Professor Daniel McCaughan
OBE FREng - Reverend Dr Ian McEwan FREng
FRSE - Dr Robert McKinlay CBE FREng
- Professor John McWhirter FREng
FRS FLSW - Dr John Menzies FREng
- The late Sir Robin Nicholson
FREng FRS - Dr Ian Nussey OBE FREng
- Professor James O’Callaghan
FREng - The Reverend Patrick O’Ferrall
OBE HonFREng - Professor David Olver FREng
- Professor Sir Keith O’Nions
HonFREng FRS - Professor Jeom-Kee Paik OM
FREng - Professor Ric Parker CBE FREng
- Professor Arogyaswami Paulraj
- John Pilling FREng
- Christopher Price OBE FREng
- Dr Chennakesavalu Rajagopal
OBE - Mick Reeve FREng
- Aleida Rios FREng
Professor Ian Ritchie CBE
HonFREng - Stephen Robinson OBE FREng
FRS - Sir Ian Robinson FREng FRSE
- John Robinson CBE FREng
- Professor Elena Rodriguez-
Falcon FREng - Phil Ruffles CBE RDI FREng FRS
- Emeritus Professor Felix Schmid
FREng - Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
- Emeritus Professor Ian Smith
FREng - Professor Martin Snaith OBE
FREng - Professor Dame Sarah
Springman DBE FREng - Dr Scott Steedman CBE FREng
- The late Air Marshal Sir Colin
Terry KBE CB FREng - Dr Simon Thomas FREng
- Keith Thrower OBE FREng
- Professor Charles Turner FREng
- Hugh Varilly
- Professor Peter Varnish OBE
FREng - Professor Laurence Williams OBE
FREng FLSW - Professor Lord Robert Winston
HonFREng FMedSci - Eur Ing Dr Rob Witty FREng
- Dr Richard Wylde FREng
- Professor John Yates FREng
- Professor Stephen Young CBE
FREng FRS - Professor Zhibing Zhang FREng
Bequests from generous supporters
- The late John Evans OBE JP
FREng - The late Dr Roger Browne OBE
FREng - The late Dr Philip Bulson CBE
FREng - The late Lady Audrey Crossland
- The late Dr Janet Wolf
Read more about Legacy Giving and our Heritage Society members who have pledged to support the Academy in their will.
Charitable trusts
- The David Family Foundation
- The ERA Foundation
- The Ezrah Trust
- The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- The Happold Foundation
- The Leverhulme Trust
- Lloyds's Register Foundation
- The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
- The Worshipful Company of Engineers
Corporate partners
We are grateful for the valued support of our corporate partners.
Strategic partners
Principal partner
Major partners
Partners
- Boeing
- MathWorks
- Rolls-Royce
Sponsors
- MBDA
- Mott MacDonald
- Venterra
Programme partners
Graduate Engineering Engagement Programme (GEEP)
- AB Dynamics
- Amey
- Atelier Ten
- BAM
- bp
- COWI
- Evolito
- Fugro
- ITP Aero
- Johnson Matthey
- MBDA
- Medtronic
- National Grid
- Rolls-Royce
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
- UKOPA
- UST
- Veolia
- WSP
- Zurich Engineering
Community Partners (in-kind support)
- Afrilabs
- Trustlaw
University partners
We are grateful to the following universities that support This is Engineering, the Academy’s flagship campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers:
Principal University Partners
- Heriot-Watt University
Major University Partners
- University of Bath
- University of Southampton
University Partners
- King's College London
- University of Cambridge
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Oxford
- University of Strathclyde
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