Deadline: 15-Sep-21
Applications are now open for the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)– Healthy Ageing Social Ventures Feasibility Studies.
The aim of the competition is to fund organisations to deliver social impact and address one or more of the 7 themes of the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework.
Themes
Your project can focus on one or more of the following 7 themes from the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework:
- living well with cognitive impairment
- sustaining physical activity
- maintaining health at work and work in later life
- managing the common complaints of ageing
- design for age-friendly homes
- creating healthy active places
- supporting social connections
Funding Information
- Projects must range in size up to £50,000 inclusive of VAT.
- Organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million, inclusive of VAT.
Projects they will not fund
They will not fund projects that:
- do not have a strong social impact or focus or purpose
- do not address any of the 7 themes from the Healthy Ageing Challenge Framework
- include clinical trials, clinical studies, or fundamental research
- require regulatory approval
- do not have an existing lead customer
- involve the development of early stage technologies
Eligibility Criteria
To lead a project, you must:
- be an organisation of any size
- work alone or with other organisations as subcontractors
- exist wholly to provide benefits for society
- have stated commitment to social outcomes for an identified set of beneficiaries related to your social or environmental mission
- have objects in your constitutional documents, which form a constitutional lock, that protect your social or environmental mission
- have a policy to distribute profits after tax so surpluses are used to achieve social or environmental impacts
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/956/overview