Science Policy News: SPIN is the Science Policy Information News, a bulletin run by the Wellcome Trust. Other Science Policy News can be found in the British Science Association magazine, People and Science. You can also subscribe to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology's POSTnotes. There is also the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee publication Science in Parliament.

Key Organisations: Newton's Apple is a neutral and non-partisan charity working at the interface of science and policy.

The Foundation for Science and Technology facilitates debate around scientific issues affecting the public.

The Science Council touches on policy with many of its initiatives.

The UK Research Councils not only fund a vast amount of the UK academic research base, but also support a lot of policy work.

There are a good number of learned societies doing excellent work with policy. A good example of this is the British Ecological Society. There is a list of other learned societies in the directory.

There are a number of organisations working in science education. The key groups are the Association for Science Education and SCORE, the Science Community Partnership Supporting Education.

A key organisation encouraging young people in Science, Technology and Engineering is STEMNET.

The Learning Grid has been created to meet the needs of students, teachers and industry by bringing together different programmes and competitions for young people. These activities are all linked to engineering, science, design, technology or mathematics.

The STEM Directories are a new resource, launched in September 2008, listing enhancement and enrichment schemes and activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. .

Again there are a number of learned societies which are very active in this field, and these are listed in the directory.