There are many charities that BU submits funding applications to. Given below are the links to the most popular and those of relevance to BU research:
Major charities
| British Academy | British Academy Flexigrant: the academy’s electronic application submission site
British Academy funding opportunities British Academy past awards – what they’ve funded |
| Leverhulme Trust | Leverhulme Trust Grant Management System: the trust’s electronic application submission site
Leverhulme Trust funding opportunities Leverhulme Trust past awards – what they’ve funded |
| Royal Society | Royal Society Flexigrant: the society’s electronic application submission site |
| Wellcome Trust | Wellcome Trust Grant Management System: the trust’s electronic application submission site
Wellcome Trust funding opportunities Wellcome Trust past awards – what they’ve funded |
Other charities connected with BU research
- Association of Medical Research Charities
- Action Medical Research
- Alzheimer’s Society
- British Academy of Management
- British Council
- British Ecological Society
- British Heart Foundation
- British Psychological Society
- Burdett Trust for Nursing
- Cancer Research UK
- Carbon Trust
- Experimental Psychology Society
- Health Foundation
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- NHS Health Technology Assessment programme
- National Institute for Health Research
- NESTA
- Nuffield Foundation
- Physiological Society
- Royal Geographical Society
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Wellbeing of Women
The RKE Development Framework offers training and development pathways specifically for:
- the academies, which provides information, advice and guidance on the UK academies;
- for charities, which provides both introductory sessions and more detailed bid writing retreats to support colleagues in their applications;
- and for NIHR, which provides opportunities to understand the multitude of funding schemes offered by the funder.












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