Documentation Grants

About ELDP

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is funded by Arcadia (previously known as the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund), which provided £20 million pounds for the Project, including £17 million for grant funding.

In its first five years, ELDP awarded up to £1.4 million in grants each year, and has now funded over 150 teams to document endangered languages across the world. Funded projects can be found from the box at the right.

Grant cycle in 2010

In 2010, a new management and organisational structure is being introduced.

There will be one grant cycle in 2010, for all grant categories, most likely opening on 15 February with an application deadline of 1 April.

Click here for further information on new grant types and how to apply

Goals of the programme

Key objectives of ELDP are

• to support the documentation of as many endangered languages as possible
• to encourage fieldwork on endangered languages, especially by younger scholars with skills in language documentation
• to create a repository of resources for the linguistic, social science, and the language communities