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Expedition Fund & Grants (Expedition Fund & Grants)

Expedition Fund & Grants

2022 Expedition - East Karakoram, Pakistanzoom
2022 Expedition - East Karakoram, Pakistan

The Expedition Fund operates on funds entirely donated by AAC(UK) members.

It awards grants to members organising mountaineering expeditions if it considers such expeditions to be relevant to the Club’s aims, of a worthwhile nature and mindful of their possible impact on the environment and the Climate.

We are particularly keen to support small independent expeditions run and composed of younger members in the early stages of their mountaineering careers.

Apply for a grant, read full Expedition Reports, see previous grants awarded, and view our photo gallery using the links below. 

The Expedition Fund operates on funds entirely donated by AAC(UK) members.

It awards grants to members organising mountaineering expeditions if it considers such expeditions to be relevant to the Club’s aims, of a worthwhile nature and mindful of their possible impact on the environment and the Climate.

We are particularly keen to support small independent expeditions run and composed of younger members in the early stages of their mountaineering careers.

Apply for a grant, read full Expedition Reports, see previous grants awarded and view our photo gallery using the links below. 

2022 Tajikistan Expeditionzoom
2022 Tajikistan Expedition
2022 Tajikistan Expeditionzoom
2022 Tajikistan Expedition
2021 High Atlas Expeditionzoom
2021 High Atlas Expedition
2018 Patagonia Expeditionzoom
2018 Patagonia Expedition
2017 British Arjuna Expeditionzoom
2017 British Arjuna Expedition
 

Apply for an Expedition Grant


Grant Information
Previous Grants Awarded
Grant Information

If you wish to apply for a grant it is advisable that you contact the Chair of the Expedition Fund Committee (currently Ben Palmer) at aac.expedition.fund@aacuk.org.uk to discuss your proposal before submitting an application.

Application forms can be downloaded by clicking the links below. Completed application forms are to be sent to the Expedition Fund Committee aac.expedition.fund@aacuk.org.uk and Office at aac.office@aacuk.org.uk.

You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt within a few days of submitting your application.

There are various rules for expedition grants:

  1. Grants will only be awarded to expeditions which can demonstrate a worthwhile contribution to mountaineering e.g. new or pioneering routes and/or significant environmental/scientific aims. These are likely to be for the Greater Ranges or isolated areas.

  2. The grant applicant must be a current AAC(UK) member and only those expedition members who have at least three years continuous membership (including the year of the application) will qualify for a grant.

  3. Grants are allocated on a per person basis and are unlikely to exceed £500 per person or £1,500 per group.

  4. A member can only qualify for one grant per year. A member who applies in consecutive years will only be eligible for a maximum grant of £300 in the second and following years and the maximum grant for the group will be reduced to £1000. This does not apply to re-applications following postponements or cancellations of expeditions previously awarded grants.

  5. Grant applications must be received at least 2 months prior to the start of the expedition.

  6. Expeditions must be organised by Club members themselves and we cannot consider any expeditions which are organised by a commercial operator (except for support from local agents in the destination country).

  7. It is a condition of receiving an AAC(UK) grant that you comply with the current regulations of both your own country and the countries you propose to visit. These may include travel regulations or advice, payment of peak fees, the insurance and equipping of porters, the employment of a Liaison Office and the deposit of environmental, customs and rescue bonds.

  8. Before a grant is paid you must provide evidence that the expedition is going ahead e.g. travel bookings, and that you have purchased carbon offsets for all travel involved.

  9. Any grants paid must be returned if an expedition is cancelled or postponed to another year. For expeditions that are postponed a new application is required if there are any major changes, particularly of personnel.

  10. If an expedition is postponed to later in the year, or there are major changes in the proposed destination/group composition, the Committee must be informed so that any grant awarded can be reconsidered.

  11. In return for a grant, we expect to receive an Expedition Report (the format of AAC(UK) Expedition Reports is specified on our website). These reports will be made available in the members section of our website. In addition, we expect to receive either an article for the Club newsletter (1,000 words with accompanying photos in jpeg form – not embedded) or the presentation of a lecture to the AAC(UK) at one of our regular lecture venues in London and Reading (or possibly at our autumn AGM). It is possible for the lecture to be given virtually in order to avoid unnecessary travel. The AAC(UK) grant should also be mentioned in any other publications in which the expedition is featured.
Previous Grants Awarded

2023:


£1,500 DRUMICE Expedition, Hofsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland - Mar
£1,000 Unclimbed Ammassalik Ridge Exploration, Greenland - Aug/Sept
£200 Dolomites Alta Via 1: Aug 2023, Italy - Aug/Sept
£1,500 International North Sikkim Expedition 2023, India - Sept/Oct

2022:


£1,500 2022 East Karakoram Expedition - Sept/Oct
£1,500 Yawash Sar I-IV Expedition - Sept/Oct
£1,500 Alpine Club Tajikistan Expedition 2022 - Aug/Sept
£800 The Monstrous Regiment: Kyrgyzstan 2022 - Aug/Sept
£900 High Level Route (HLR) - Jun/Jul

2021:


£2,000 Antarctic Quest 21 – Dec
£500 High Atlas Range – Aug

2020:


£200 Trans Pyrenees winter crossing – Jan/Mar
£200 Pyrenees traverse – Mar

2019:


£500 Mount Kenya – Feb
£400 Pyrenees – Mar/Apr
£1,000 Mt Luciana, Canada – May/Jun
£200 Renland, Greenland – Jun/Jul
£350 82 Alpine peaks – Jun – Sep
£500 Ak Su / Kara Su, Kyrgyzstan – Jul/Aug
£600 Western Zaalaisky, Kyrgyzstan – Aug
£850 Lachama Khola, Nepal – Sep/Oct
£400 Chitral, Pakistan – Sep/Oct
£200 Tengkangpoche, Nepal – Sep – Nov

2018:


£500 Avellano, Patagonia – Jan
£800 North Liverpool Land, East Greenland – Apr/May
£1,000 Terskey Ala-Too, Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan – Jul
£400 Singekang, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India – Jul/Aug
£700 Mulung Tokpo Valley, Zanskar , India – Sep
£550 Barnaj 2, Kishtwar Himalaya, India – Sep/Oct

2017:


£300 Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia – Jan/Feb
£250 Stauning Alps, Greenland – Apr/May
£300 Denali, USA – May
£400 Cordillera Blance, Peru – May/Jun
£600 British Shimshal Expedtion, Pakistan – Aug/Sep
£500 Upper Rassa Glacier, Ladakh, India – Sep/Oct
£450 British Arjuna expedition, Kishtwar Himal, India – Sep/Oct

2016:


£300 Eastern Alaska, Hayes Range, Peak 12360
£900 Eagle Ski Club, Mount Logan, Canada
£600 Northern Alichursky Mountains, Tajikistan
£300 Gangstang, Himachal Pradesh, India
£150 Vishnugarh, Garhwal, India
£400 Rasser Glacier, Nubra, Ladakh, India
£300 Mt Foraker, Alaska
£400 Muz Tok, Kyrgyzstan
£200 Peak Communism, Tajikistan
£400 Peak 6246m, Changla Himal, Nepal

2015:


£1,000 Hayes Range – Alaska
£800 Khan Tengri (Tien Shan)
£1,000 Revelations Range – Alaska
£800 Patagonia
£800 Muzkhol Range, Pamir Mountains – Tajikistan
£200 Zanskar – Indian Himalaya

2014:


£500 University of Cape Town Mountain & Ski Club expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya
£400 Spiti valley, India
£600 Djangart region of Kyrgyzstan
£600 Tajikistan to an unclimbed 6050m peak in the Muzkol range.

History of the Expedition Fund


The AAC (UK) distributes funding to mountaineering expeditions run by its members if it considers such expeditions to be relevant to the Club’s aims and of a worthwhile nature. This funding has been entirely donated by our members for this specific purpose. We are particularly keen to support small independent expeditions run and composed of younger members in the early stages of their mountaineering careers.

The fund was already in existence in 1972 when I became Club Secretary but no records from that period have survived. Current records show that, from 2004 to 2017, 37 expeditions have received grants totalling £17,600. Grants are very small, being £150 – £200 per person, so about 100 members have been supported. In earlier years there were only one or two applications but, since 2014, there has been a marked increase and we have had to introduce quite stringent qualification ‘rules’. Our members seem to be getting to many far flung and remote mountain areas but, so far as I can remember, nothing to Africa!

 
 
 
 

 

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