The Royal Free Charity is the NHS charity partner for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, so most of its funding is tightly focused on improving care, experience, and research capacity across Royal Free, Barnet, Chase Farm, and North Mid hospitals. It supports early-stage clinical and translational research, patient and public involvement, staff wellbeing, and practical service improvements that go beyond core NHS funding. A distinctive feature is its mix of competitive research grants and highly local, hospital-specific support such as rest spaces, staff support programmes, broadcasting, and special purpose funds for named departments or disease areas.
Primarily place-based, invite/open competitive grant rounds for Royal Free London staff and affiliated teams, with small grants (including awards up to £10,000) for early-stage work plus occasional development-support funding. It also distributes donor-designated special purpose funds and support for specific departments, services, and patient/staff wellbeing projects rather than broad external grantmaking.
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Most opportunities are internal to Royal Free London or affiliated teams, with deadlines announced for each round and decisions made a few months later. Applicants should watch the charity’s grant pages for annual research, diabetes, PPIE, patient experience, and development-support rounds, and align proposals to measurable improvements in patient care, staff wellbeing, or preliminary research data that can unlock larger future funding.
Current and upcoming funding from The Royal Free Charity that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Spending must align with the specific SPF's charitable purpose. Fund signatories are employees or honorary contract holders at the Trust; signatories must follow guidance and authorisation thresholds (notifying charity of expenditure over £20,000). To check availability contact the charity by email.
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