Dundee Science Centre offers funding to help schools cover the cost of visits and outreach sessions – including support for transport and admission, depending on your location.
We have two available funding streams for school visits here to the centre – Transport funding and admissions funding. We also have funding available for school outreaches. All types of funding are dependent on where your school is located and the SIMD decile/UR6 zone of this area – you can find out your SIMD HERE or your UR6 HERE.
Our team will confirm any eligibility for funding once your visit has been confirmed. Please note that funding for schools is not guaranteed and subject to availability, and may also be subject to quotation. The below bandings may change, and any funding alongside the exact percentage to be reimbursed will be confirmed at the point of booking.
We can only reimburse travel costs associated with chartered or public transport costs, and we are unable to compensate any petrol costs.
In order to confirm any transport funding, we need to receive a quote.
Admissions Funding
We can potentially offer admissions funding to assist or cover any admission costs. All funded admission offers are linked to our other programmes, such as Outreach workshops in a school setting or our Learning Lab programme.
Our current offers, which incorporate funded admission, include Edina for Dundee schools, Learning Lab, Scottish Water workshops, or SSEN Transmission workshops. Please see individual pages for specific criteria.
Transport Funding
We can potentially offer transport funding to assist with any chartered or public transport costs as part of your travel to the Dundee Science Centre. To be eligible for assistance with transport costs to the centre, your primary or secondary school must be located within a decile 6 area (according to the SIMD index) or lower, or within a zone 3 -6 (according to the UR6 scale). If eligible, these are our current bandings;
- SIMD decile 1 & 2 – 80% reimbursement of chartered or public transport costs
- SIMD decile 3 & 4 – 60% reimbursement of chartered or public transport costs
- SIMD decile 5 & 6 – 40% reimbursement of chartered or public transport costs
- UR6 5 & 6 – 80% reimbursement of chartered or public transport costs
- UR6 3 & 4 – 60% reimbursement of chartered or public transport costs
In order to confirm any transport funding, we need to receive a quote within 7 days of funding confirmation.
Process for Reimbursement of Transport Costs
The process for reclaiming any confirmed funding for transport costs is as follows;
- Book and pay for your travel requirements – please note that we can only reimburse for chartered or public transport costs, and we are unable to compensate any petrol costs.
- Send us (1) the invoice that shows the full amount and (2) confirmation of payment. Please note we do require an invoice for this and cannot accept a quote. The invoice must show that a payment has been made. If you could please name your subject line as “SCHOOL NAME – INREACH” and send this to finman@dundeesciencecentre.org.uk
- All claims for transport funding must be submitted within 30 days of your visit date, and any claims submitted after this time will not be reimbursed.
- We can provide reimbursement in the form of a bank transfer or cheque; for a bank transfer please also include the following in your email – the name of the account, account number, and sort code. For a cheque, please include who the cheque is to be made out to.
- Once received DSC will confirm this and begin to process the reimbursement.