British Science Week 2025 is coming! The celebrations proper may not be kicking off until 7-16 March 2025, but your British Science Week fun can start now! We’re excited to announce that we have now published our free activity taster pack. You read that right, pack singular! This year we have brought activities for Early … Continued
The British Science Week 2025 taster pack is out now!
British Science Week 2025 is coming! The celebrations proper may not be kicking off until 7-16 March 2025, but your British Science Week fun can start now! We’re excited to announce that we have now published our free activity taster…
Applications for British Science Week 2025 grants are open!
The build up to British Science Week is in full swing as Kick Start Grants and Community Grants are open for applications! Schools and community groups can apply for Kick Start Grants and Community Grants respectively to fund, organise and…
Science Live is closing down
We’re sad to announce that Science Live is closing down. Science Live is a listings website run by the British Science Association (BSA) where scientists and others can offer their services as a science presenter, members of the public can…
Winners of the 2024 poster competition announced!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s British Science Week poster competition! Based on our 2024 theme, ‘Time’, this year’s entries really highlighted the brilliant ideas, passions and dazzling imaginations of almost 5,000 burgeoning young artists from…
The theme for 2025 is...'Change and adapt'!
British Science Week is entering its third decade in 2025, taking place on 7-16 March, and the theme to mark the start of this new era is ‘Change and adapt’! We’re so excited to seeing the activities and events you…
A round-up of British Science Week 2024!
That’s a wrap on British Science Week’s 30th anniversary! We hope you had a brilliant time celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths – we loved seeing all the fun you had running events and activities! Do keep tagging us on…
300-year-old national wildlife record needs British public to help scientists track spring
Nature’s Calendar is an almost 300-year-old record of observations in nature across the UK. It indicates milestones in the year, such as when spring starts Nature’s Calendar and British Science Week are collaborating to get the UK public looking out…
The Live Assembly #BSW24 with TheDadLab at the Royal Observatory
We are delighted to announce that YouTube content creator, and longtime supporter of British Science Week, Sergei Urban, best known as TheDadLab will be presenting the Live Assembly #BSW24 on Friday 8 March to kick start the Week’s celebrations. The…
British Science Week turns 30 – ‘time’ to celebrate with Royal Observatory Greenwich
This year, British Science Week marks its 30th anniversary. Taking place annually in March, British Science Week is a national 10-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths, marked by schools, libraries, museums, businesses and more. For this milestone, British…
Connecting communities to British Science Week
The British Science Association (BSA) runs British Science Week British Science Week, which brings people together over a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. This year, for British Science Week’s 30th anniversary, we’re launching a brand new Communities…
British Science Week 2024 is just around the corner on 8-17 March – it’s about time!
The two-month countdown begins to the special 30th of anniversary the Week, and you can get started by getting stuck in to STEM fun now with our British Science Week activity packs – available from today! The packs, available to…
The British Science Week 2024 taster packs are out now!
What’s that coming over the hill? It’s British Science Week 2024! Next year’s British Science Week is an extra special one – it marks the 30th anniversary of the very first Week way back in 1994! (Hands up if that…
Applications for British Science Week 2024 grants are open!
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for… British Science Week 2024 Grants are open for applications! Schools and community groups can apply for Kick Start Grants and Community Grants respectively to fund, organise and run their own events and activities…
*CLOSED* Win a copy of 'How to Spaghettify Your Dog' for your school!
We're delighted to partner with Bloomsbury Children’s Books on a giveaway of their brand new book, 'How To Spaghettify Your Dog: and other science secrets of the universe'! We've got five copies up for grabs, so why not enter and…
A conversation with the senior poster competition winner!
That's a wrap on the British Science Week 2023 poster competition, we have our winners! We received so many fantastic posters this year on such a diverse range of subjects related to connections, and we’re fascinated by how the children…
The theme for 2024 is...'Time'!
We are excited to announce our theme for the 2024 British Science Week activity packs and poster competition – ‘Time’! Next year is the 30th anniversary of British Science Week, so this theme celebrates the passing of time since the…
Guest blog | Norman Lockyer Observatory runs stellar British Science Week celebration for local families
The Norman Lockyer Observatory (NLO) in Sidmouth, Devon, is a historical observatory and home to an active amateur astronomical society. It is a centre for amateur astronomy, meteorology, radio astronomy and the promotion of science education. It is regularly open…
Use British Science Week activities for CREST!
Did you know that you can use or adapt activities from the British Science Week 2023 activity packs to submit for CREST Awards? Selected activities in the Early Years and Primary packs, indicated by a special CREST logo, can be…
