You will need to consider every aspect of your planned activity and any associated costs. Having sufficient funding to cover the costs incurred by schools as a result of participation in your activity, particularly travel and staff cover, is a further incentive for schools to take part. If you need to apply for specific funding to support your partnership or activity it is always worth talking to university Public Engagement and WP departments as they may be able to support this or point you towards funding you can apply for (for Southampton contacts see the Useful Links and Contacts section). Below are some typical items that incur costs to consider.
Local teachers join UoS staff and students for a day of workshops at John Hansard Gallery looking at putting SAHW (Science, Art, Health and Wellbeing) into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) i.e. bringing arts, health and wellbeing into the STEM agenda.
‘Their (the pupils’) gels were very good… some were better than first year undergraduates.’
Genetics researcher