Our partners

A huge thank you to our supporters and partners.

Thank you to our partners

Principal Partner

British Science Week 2025 is supported by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), which is the agency that brings together the seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England. Funding from UKRI enables the BSA to deliver the core British Science Week activity; large grassroots campaign that aims to reach a diverse range of audiences, including those from disadvantaged communities and people who would not usually engage in science.

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Major Partner

British Science Week 2026 is supported by Illumina. Illumina is focused on enabling educators to be advocates of genomics and inspire learners to envision themselves as our future STEM leaders. Illumina’s support has been vital to this year’s British Science Week, in particular to the Smashing Stereotypes campaign and the British Science Week Activity Packs.

Hollie Church, Regional Head Corporate Responsibility, EMEA, Illumina

“British Science Week plays a vital role in inspiring curiosity and making science more accessible and inclusive. As a major sponsor, Illumina is proud to support an initiative that aligns closely with our purpose to unlock the power of the genome to improve human health. By encouraging young people from all backgrounds to engage with science, we’re helping to build a more diverse, skilled, and innovative future workforce and ensure the benefits of scientific progress are shared more equitably across society.”

Smashing Stereotypes partners

The British Science Week Smashing Stereotypes campaign will continue to be supported by Urenco. Joining them in 2026 is King’s College London, who are part of the Cancer Research UK City of London (CoL) Radiation Research Centre. The support of this year’s partners has been vital towards achieving our aim: to challenge long-standing stereotypes of STEM careers, and to encourage more young people, from all backgrounds, to see themselves as scientists.

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Activity pack partners

Thank you to our 2026 activity pack partners

UK Antarctic Heritage Trust logoSnap Science logoRoyal Museums Greenwich logoPrimary Science Teaching TrustNFU Education logoExplorify logoCollins logoWWF logoScience Museum Group logoOkido logoNUSTEM logoNSEAD logoNorthumbria University logoI'm a scientist get me out of here logoEsero logo

Opportunities

We have a range of partnership opportunities available for British Science Week. These include:

  • A range of partnership levels, enabling you to support activities that reach your target audiences through support the core campaign into schools and/ or communities; and/or
  • Sponsorship of particular highlight activity or component of the Week’s celebrations: for instance the Poster Competition (last year over 25,000 students entered).

Benefits

  • Fantastic branding opportunities, print and online (on activity packs, marketing collateral and promotional materials);
  • Promotion via our digital and social media channels;
  • Employee engagement through participation in events and activities;
  • Association with a powerful and respected brand; and
  • The opportunity to reach a range of audiences.

For more information on how to support British Science Week please contact Giorgio D’Agostaro, Development Manager, British Science Association.