Barts Charity is a London-based place-focused funder that supports healthcare improvement and transformative research for people in East London, especially through Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London partners. It backs both practical service innovation inside the NHS and health-related research with clear local benefit, including early-stage seed funding, larger research awards, and clinical training fellowships. The charity is distinctive for combining hospital-based improvement grants with academic research capacity-building, all tied to measurable impact for the local community.
Mix of competitive, program-specific grants and fellowship support; awards range from small quick-impact grants to large six-figure research and innovation grants. Funding is generally restricted to Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary-linked institutions, and East London health benefit projects, with both small pilot grants and larger implementation/research awards available.
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Apply through the relevant program form or grant call and make the local East London benefit explicit. Strong applications should show how the project will improve care or generate research with practical NHS impact, fit Barts Health/Queen Mary priorities, and be feasible as a pilot or scalable next step; seed grants are especially useful for building collaborations or preparing for larger external funding.
Current and upcoming funding from Barts Charity that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Any member of Barts Health NHS Trust staff can submit an expense claim, provided the expense matches the purpose of a special purpose fund and SPF guidelines. Certain costs are not allowed, including undergraduate and masters degree courses, salary and staff remuneration, research expenditure, and all IT equipment/software.
Who can apply: Any member of Barts Health NHS Trust staff can make an expense claim for items aligned with a specific SPF's purpose. Certain costs are excluded (undergraduate/masters fees, salary, research costs, IT equipment/software).
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