The European Union has recently awarded an EU Grant which has allowed the TBA to run a programme of fellowships for students to attend courses. The British Council has funded scholarships for over 50 TBA students from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Scholarships are vital to enable students from tropical countries to raise their course fees.
The foreign ministry of the Netherlands Government currently provides funding for African participants each year, and the Swiss Government has funded students in the past. Other sources of funding for African participants have come from the Darwin Initiative and Glaxo Wellcome plc. The British Ecological Society has generously provided course scholarships to over one hundred European students, and have agreed to renew their commitment in 1999. The Tropical Biology Association may also award scholarships to students from member institutions.