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 at the booking stage of any visit or outreach. Please note that funding for schools is not guaranteed and subject to availability. Any funding alongside the exact percentage to be reimbursed will be confirmed once a funding request form has been received. 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 for travel costs.
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.
*April 2026 update – Please note we only have admissions funding available for Summer Term 2026 through our Learning Lab programme, all other funding streams have been exhausted for the 25/26 academic year*
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 1 – 6 area (according to the SIMD index) or lower, or within a zone 3 -6 (according to the UR6 scale).
*April 2026 update – Transport funding is available for schools in the above categories! If you would like to apply for transport funding, please submit a transport funding request form here. Please note we do require a quote for transport as part of this application. *
Outreach Funding
We can potentially offer outreach workshops in a school setting fully funded and not cost to your school. For more information regarding outreach workshops and funding, please see the individual workshop pages at our outreach page HERE.
*April 2026 update – Please note that we have exhausted all funding to support outreach sessions for the 2025/2026 academic year – If you are interested in an outreach for the 2026/2027 academic year, you can fill out our outreach waitlist HERE or check back in August 2026 for our new projects and programmes!*
Process for Reimbursement of Transport Costs
The process for reclaiming any confirmed funding for transport costs is as follows;
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- For all correspondence could please name your subject line as “*YOUR SCHOOL NAME – INREACH” and copy in finman@dundeesciencecentre.org.uk
- Book and pay for your travel requirements once we have confirmed your funding and the quote is acceptable – 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/proof of payment (or the purchase order from the relevant council if your local council is paying) . Please note we do require an invoice for this and cannot accept a quote. The invoice must show that a payment has been made or PO raised.
- 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 provide reimbursement in the form of a bank transfer please also include the following in your email – the name of the account, account number, and sort code.
- Once received DSC will confirm this and begin to process the reimbursement.”