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Impact funding

Please find below information on the variety of funding schemes available for impact activities.

If you have any ideas get in touch to discuss which funding would work best for you.

Title	Description	Funding available	Contact	Deadline
AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme (FoF)	Provides funds to support innovative and creative engagements with new audiences and user communities which stimulate pathways to impact.	Upto £100k	Andrew Wray	Not fixed
AHRC REACT hub	Funding is available for two sandboxes: 1) Future documentary: exploring how new media is disrupting traditional documentaries 2) Objects: Involving physical objects that communicate using networked technologies.	£20-50k	Andrew Wray	Various
Cancer Research UK Feasibility and Pilot Studies Schemes	Purpose-driven preparatory studies, essential for determining the most appropriate questions for the next generation of Phase III trials.	Various	Research Commercialisation Team	Various
Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research TRACK Award 2013	To support health related research projects which have translational/commercial potential.	£15k	Nina Couzin	7 Oct 2013
EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Secondment (KTS)	For secondments to/from the University, part-time or full-time for any researcher, academic or industry collaborator.	Up to £50k	Andrew Wray or Lucy Stephens	31 Oct 2013 then every 8 weeks
EPSRC Proof of Principle	For developing the commercial potential of research, exploring markets and potential partners/investors, developing prototypes, and taking the first steps in generating research impact.	Up to £15k	Andrew Wray or Lucy Stephens	31 Oct 2013 then every 8 weeks
EPSRC Proof of Concept	For developing specific commercial opportunities, enabling partners and investors to take on the next stages of development and advancing the Technology Readiness Level of research.	Up to £100k	Andrew Wray or Lucy Stephens	31 Oct 2013 then every 8 weeks
ERDF Universities South West Innovation Vouchers	Funding for businesses to work with an external expert from a University, College or Public Sector Research Establishment for the first time, helping businesses to innovate, develop and grow.	£3-£10k	Frances Frith	Anytime between October 2012 and early 2015
Follow on funds – Various Research Council funders	These funds support ‘proof of concept’ investigations and help researchers to refine their ideas into a viable commercial proposition with the view of securing industrial partnerships, venture capital or other investment.	Various	Research Commercialisation Team and Andrew Wray	Various
MRC Biomedical Catalysts and Confidence in Concept scheme	Catalysts are: Pre-clinical and clinical development of therapies, devices and diagnostics as well as regenerative medicine therapies. Confidence in Concept supports the earliest stages of multiple translational research projects.	Various	Research Commercialisation Team	Various
NIHR Invention for Innovation: Acceleration, product development and challenge awards	Aims to support and advance the research and development of innovative healthcare technologies and their translation into the clinical environment for the benefit of patients.	Various	Research Commercialisation Team	Various
TSB Collaborative R & D	An excellent way of developing partnerships and applied research.	£30k - £1m (The University is limited to 30% of the project)	Andrew Wray	Various
TSB Innovation Vouchers	Innovation Vouchers are designed to encourage businesses to look outside their current network for new knowledge that can help them to grow and develop.	Upto £5k	Frances Frith	Various
TSB Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)	A KTP is a three-way partnership between a business, UK university or college and a recently qualified graduate.	SMEs receive 67% and larger companies 50% of total costs	Frances Frith	2 October 2013 then every 8 weeks
Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer funding	Six funding schemes: Translation Fund, Innovative Engineering for Health, Seeding Drug Discovery, R&D for Affordable Healthcare in India, Pathfinder Awards and the Health Innovation Challenge Fund.	Various	Research Commercialisation Team	Various