The Bentham Project operates as an independent department in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. The College and the Faculty provide support for a full-time Director and part-time Administrator of the Bentham Project, in addition to a grant towards running costs, accommodation, and other facilities.
The Bentham Project has received awards from the following external agencies:
The European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme (H2020-EU.1.4.1.3) for participation in the Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project, led by the University of Innsbruck.
The Leverhulme Trust to complete the new edition of Bentham's Writings on Political Economy.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council for the 'Convict Australia and Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham's Writings on Australia.'
The Leverhulme Trust for Bentham's writings on sex, law, and religion.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology grant programme for the Consolidated Bentham Papers Repository and the continuation and expansion of the work of Transcribe Bentham.
The European Commission's FP7 scheme (FP7-ICT-2011-9) for participation in the tranScriptorium project, a consortium led by the Universitat Politècnica de València. The project aims to develop innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for the indexing, searching, and full transcription of historical manuscript images using Handwritten Text Recognition technology.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (DEDEFI Scheme) for the Transcribe Bentham initiative.
The Economic and Social Research Council for Bentham's economic writings.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (Research Enhancement Scheme) for the production of a new online database of the Bentham Papers, which are deposited in University College London Library.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council for the preparation and publication of a new edition of Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence in five volumes, and a new edition of Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined in two volumes.
The Economic and Social Research Council for the preparation and publication of a new edition of Bentham's Political Fallacies.
The Wellcome Trust for the preparation and publication of Bentham's Writings on the Poor Laws: Volume II.
The British Academy for the transcription of Bentham's manuscripts on parliamentary reform.
The British Academy's Committee on Academy Research Projects (CARP) supported a pilot digitization project to produce digital images of a selection of Bentham's manuscripts.
The Bentham Project is recognized as a British Academy Research Project.