The project is funded by annual grants from the British Academy (for running expenses) and, indirectly, by the home institutions of those who are engaged in one way or another on the editing of volumes for the series.
Substantial grants were received from the Isaac Newton Trust (Trinity College, Cambridge) and from the Leverhulme Trust (London), which enabled the committee to appoint a Research Officer (Dr S. E. Kelly) to work full-time on the project, in Cambridge, for a period of five years (1991-6). Thereafter Dr Kelly's work in the same post, based in Birmingham, Oxford and elsewhere, was funded from various sources: for the year 1996-7, and for part of 1998, by grants from the Humanities Research Board; from 1 December 1998 to November 2000 (part-time) by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board; from December 2000 to March 2001 (part-time), and in 2001-2 (part-time), by grants from the British Academy; and from 1 October 2002 to 30 September 2006 (part-time), and from 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2011 (part-time), by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, later the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
In November 2002 the AHRB made an award (under its Resource Enhancement scheme) which led to the creation of a full-time post for three years (2003-6), in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, for the further revision and updating of P. H. Sawyer's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters (1968), including its development in electronic form as part of the ‘Kemble’ website. Dr Rebecca Rushforth commenced her work for the project on 1 October 2003; after the first year she worked part-time on the project, until 31 January 2008. Technical support for the ‘Electronic Sawyer’ was provided by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London.