Deadline: 29-Feb-24
The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust is currently accepting applications to support the development of new models of care and the integration of health and care services.
This grant programme supports the development of new models of health and care to improve outcomes for people living with serious long-term or life-limiting conditions. Applications may address care for any area of physical or mental health, physical or learning disability, or end-of-life care.
The Trust will prioritise projects which support:
- the integration and resilience of health and care services
- improved access to services
- areas of unmet need.
Funding Information
- It is anticipated that awards will typically be in the range of £150K-£500K.
What the Trust will fund?
- The Trust will look to support the up-front investment necessary to roll out or scale up new, improved practices. It will therefore consider applications to support:
- infrastructure funding for specific facilities or equipment, where these are necessary to support innovation or improvement in practice.
- project costs necessary to roll out or scale up new, improved practice, including staff or consumables costs. This can include new staff recruited to deliver the project. Existing staff can only be incorporated as a cost in the budget where they will make a substantial contribution to rolling out or scaling up the new, improved practice. The Trust will not fund any elements of their salary required to maintain ongoing activity.
- The Trust recognises that delivering a project will make some demands on the organisation’s core services (such as space, IT, or other resources). Budgets may therefore include a reasonable contribution to overheads. Organisations should not seek to recover overheads by including fractional salary contributions for staff who are not making a substantial contribution to the project.
- Any funding from the Trust must be spent down in the two years from the grant agreement date. The applicant will need to demonstrate how the new model will be sustained once any investment supported by the Trust has been completed.
What the Trust will not fund?
- The fund will not support:
- Small-scale activity to make incremental improvements in practice in a single setting; however worthwhile these may be.
- Organisations whose main charitable activities are not health-based.
- Research projects, pilot projects, or early-stage work to assess proof of concept.
- Research into the causes and treatment of illnesses.
- Projects where the underlying evidence is based on academic studies without any practical testing.
- The routine replacement of equipment or the routine refurbishment of facilities.
- Contributions to large capital campaigns for “bricks and mortar” projects unless they relate to specific facilities or services that directly address the priorities for this fund.
- It is not possible for the Trust to make donations to:
- beneficiaries who do not have registered charity status.
- overseas organisations, or organisations based in the UK who are seeking support for a project overseas.
- faith-based charities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The programme is open to registered and exempt charities in the UK and to NHS organisations. Support for human health and care must be the primary focus of the lead applicant’s work.
- Given the programme’s focus, projects may involve a number of partners. The lead organisation responsible for the delivery of the project, and to which any funding would be awarded, should be an established centre of excellence or have the potential to become a leader in its field.
- Please note that where NHS Trusts have separate, dedicated charities which support their work, only one application may be submitted. If an NHS Trust and its associated charity are seeking funds for multiple projects, they will need to select the one which they believe most closely aligns with the grant programme and put forward a single application. Similarly, where a university and affiliated NHS organisation both have a prospective proposal, they will need to decide which one should be submitted.
- Applications will need to demonstrate:
- the organisation’s track record in developing new models of health and care and/or providing high-quality care for its beneficiaries.
- how the application relates to the organisation’s wider strategy
- the organisation’s commitment both to sustain and disseminate the work funded by the Trust.
Criteria
- All applications must:
- provide clear evidence that the project will lead to innovation or improvement in health and care practice and explain how these outcomes will be scalable/replicable by other organisations. The Trust will not fund incremental changes in a single setting or provide revenue funding to maintain existing provisions, however worthwhile this may be.
- provide evidence that the innovation or improvement that the Trust is being asked to fund will have a direct benefit for the charity’s beneficiaries and that these benefits will start to be delivered during the funding period and continue afterwards. The Trust is not prescriptive about the form this evidence should take; it may be from a pilot study, from practice in a specific setting that the applicant is now looking to roll out more widely, or from practice in other countries that have not previously been applied in the UK. The evidence must nevertheless be sufficient to demonstrate positive, real-world outcomes.
For more information, visit Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust.