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== Funding sources ==
American Physical Society awards grants up to $10,000 to help APS members develop new physics outreach activities.
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) provides grants and fellowships for physics outreach.
Wellcome Trust, while mostly focused on biological sciences, the Wellcome Trust also touches on physics and encourages physics outreach. They aim to improve biology, chemistry, and physics A levels in the UK.
Institute of Physics (IoP) The IoP aims to provide positive and compelling experiences of physics for public audiences through engaging and entertaining activities and events. The public engagement grant scheme is designed to give financial support of up to £1500 to individuals and organisations running physics-based events and activities in the UK and Ireland.

== Awards ==
Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people
Klopsteg Memorial Award is presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers and given in memory of the physicist Paul E. Klopsteg
Kelvin Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics.
The Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science to a UK audience is awarded by the Royal Society.
Prix Jean Perrin for popularization in physics is attributed by the French Physics Society.

== References ==