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Engineering
a safer world.

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global safety charity with an important mission: to engineer a safer world.

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grants currently live.

£237m £237m

total value of grants portfolio (live and complete).

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current and former grants across the globe.

Our priorities

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Skilled people for safer engineering

Discover how Lloyd's Register Foundation is increasing the number and diversity of skilled engineers, especially in parts of the world where they're most needed.

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Heritage Centre

Discover how Lloyd's Register Foundation is harnessing our heritage to shape a safer and more sustainable ocean economy for the future.

The Lloyd's Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre

Collating, creating and communicating the best available evidence on 'what works' to improve safety.

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A Year of Impact 2025

Celebrating our charitable mission in practice, these stories highlight the progress we’ve made together - with our partners, colleagues and global grants community to make people safer across the world.

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Latest News

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New maritime safety project to improve methanol fire safety

Lloyd’s Register Foundation has awarded funding to a new initiative led by DBI – The Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, tackling one of the maritime sector’s most urgent safety challenges: fire risk from methanol, one of the alternative fuels in the global green transition.

Dr Ruth Boumphrey Chief Executive, Lloyd's Register Foundation

Protecting people from harm, ensuring the infrastructure that we depend on for day-to-day living is safe for society both now and in the future, and ensuring the world has the right engineering skills and education required to keep people safer, all remain the driving force behind everything we do.

Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chief Executive, Ruth Boumphrey