Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund is a UK charity that helps writers in financial need, providing grants, educational and community-based projects. We have helped those in financial difficulty, including novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and translators. Among them James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Edith Nesbit, Bram Stoker, Anna Burns, Monique Roffey, and Ali Smith. We run education programmes where writers deploy their talents for the wider benefit. Our Fellowship scheme funds writers to work one-to-one with university students. We also provide writing development workshops to schools and our community projects nurture resilience, engagement and empowerment.