Grant Types

Small Project Grant Applications (up to £20,000)

Small project grants are for initiatives that:

• Will provide a better service for patients.
• Can help you do your job more effectively.
• Support the Charity's vision and mission
• Are new initiatives and not ‘top ups’ for existing projects.
• Fit in with one or more of our themes (see the 'Grant Themes' section).

Please note that ‘strategic research’ requests can only be submitted as a large project grant

Small Grant Application Form

Please submit a signed, hard copy of the application form to Deborah Meredith, Small Project Grants Manager, and email a Word version to deborah.meredith@bartshealth.nhs.uk

 *** SPRING 2013 GRANT ROUND – SCHEME CLOSED ***

Large Project Grant Applications (£20,000-£500,000)

DEADLINE: THURSDAY 11TH APRIL 2013, 5PM

Project grants are for initiatives that:

• Support the Charity's vision and mission - ie to promote excellence in healthcare, and to raise, invest and grant funds for innovation and improvement in patient care, medical research and education.
• Are fixed term initiatives.
• Fit in with one or more of our themes (see the 'Grant Themes' section).

New and innovative ideas will be given priority.

If you wish to apply for a large project grant, please complete a Preliminary Application form. Please click on the links below.

There are two types of large project grants, for which there are two different Preliminary Application forms:

• Strategic Research Project Grants (in relation to the Strategic Research Theme). Please note that applications relating solely to rodent-models do not fall within the eligibility criteria. Please contact Dr Anoushka de Almeida (anoushka.dealmeida@bartshealth.nhs.uk) for further clarification.
• STRATEGIC RESEARCH APPLICATION FORM
• Non-Research Project Grants (in relation to the Enhancement in Service Delivery, Innovative Training and Development and Patient and Community Engagement Themes)
• NON-RESEARCH APPLICATION FORM
  

Submission details:

• For a Strategic Research Application, please submit, before the deadline, a signed, hard copy to Coleen Colechin (Clinical Operations Manager), Joint Research & Development Office, QM Innovation Centre, 5 Walden Street, London, E1 2EF
• For a Non-Research Application, please submit, before the deadline, a signed, hard copy to Roger Tester (Finance Manager, Capital Projects, 9 Prescot Street, London , E1 1BB
• Please leave your Application with Coleen Colechin / Roger Tester; the Charity will collect Applications from them.
• For both types of applications: a Word version of the application form, and a scanned copy of the Endorsements section of the form (if possible), should also be emailed to Dr Anoushka de Almeida (anoushka.dealmeida@bartshealth.nhs.uk), before the deadline.
• Please make sure you have discussed, with the endorsers at an early date, your intention to submit an application to the Charity, thus giving them sufficient time to ask and receive answers to their questions. Please bear in mind that if you leave it until the formal deadline to submit a previously ‘unseen’ application to the endorser, you may risk not being able to adequately deal with queries and hence not obtain the endorsement.

 Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) Support Funding - CLOSED

Fellows eligible for ACF Support Funding have been already contacted via email. The Application Form has been attached to the email.

Applications (Word Format) should be sent by email to Dr Anoushka de Almeida : anoushka.dealmeida@bartshealth.nhs.uk

Hard copies, including signatures, should be sent to Dr Anoushka de Almeida at the Charity offices.
 

*** Clinical Research Training (CRT) Fellowship Schemes - OPEN ***

DEADLINE: FRIDAY 31st MAY 2013, 5pm

There are TWO schemes available, as follows:

SCHEME A

• This pump priming scheme is open to medically qualified trainees with no existing funding, to allow them to develop sufficient preliminary data to apply for Clinical Research Training Fellowships, ideally from the MRC / Wellcome Trust.
• The Charity will underwrite a second year, provided a bona fide attempt has been made to apply for an external Fellowship. The Charity will ask for a copy of the external application as part of the report for the end of the first year. If this external application is not funded, a second year's salary will be paid; but not a third year.
• The scheme is not open to NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows, as they are already in a pump priming scheme.

APPLICATION FORM - SCHEME A

SCHEME B

• This scheme is open to medically qualified trainees already registered for a PhD/MD and with one or two years of existing funding (from a nationally competitive award)
• The Charity would then award money for their second or third year (depending on whether they have one or two years of existing funding), to help these candidates finish their studies/experiments. Funding will not be provided for candidates at the ‘writing-up’ stage.
• Maximum funding is one year
• Candidates already supported by The Charity, are not eligible
• The scheme is open to Clinical Research Training Fellows who had received their external Fellowship award for their PhD/MD while a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow

APPLICATION FORM - SCHEME B

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, THE ABOVE APPLICATION FORMS WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO IMPORT ANY DIAGRAMS/FIGURES/TABLES. PLEASE INCLUDE THESE AS A SEPARATE WORD/PDF DOCUMENT AND ATTACH IT TO YOUR APPLICATION UPON SUBMISSION. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.

Submission Details:

Hard copies, including signatures, should be sent to Dr Anoushka de Almeida at the Charity offices by the deadline.

A Word version of the application form, and a scanned copy of the Endorsements section of the form, should also be emailed to Dr Anoushka de Almeida (anoushka.dealmeida@bartshealth.nhs.uk), before the deadline.

For both schemes, applications will be peer reviewed. Shortlisted candidates for the current grant-round will be invited to attend an interview in September 2013.

 The next round of applications will be in Spring/Summer 2014.

*** Cancer Research Fund - Scheme OPEN! ***

DEADLINE: Monday 17th June 2013, 5pm 

The Charity has a discrete fund to support projects that focus on the causes and prospective treatments of cancer. The maximum amount to apply for is £10,000 (for consumable costs).
 

This fund is for:
• New small projects
• Ongoing projects, or
• Projects providing primary data for new initiatives.
 

Please send the endorsed, signed hard copy of your Application Form to Dr Anoushka de Almeida at the Charity Office, and email an electronic Word version of your Form to anoushka.dealmeida@bartshealth.nhs.uk before the deadline.

Cancer Research Fund Application Form