Category: PPIE Funding

The Collaboration and Innovation Grant is a new funding scheme, awarding up to £10,000 for the formation of practice-led, cross-sector teams to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration between sectors, from which experimental public engagement activity will emerge.  

There will be an application webinar on Monday 9 March, 2-3pm, to find out more. Booking here: Centre for Public Engagement Practice Booking Form – Form 

For questions relating to the Collaboration and Innovation Grant, please email cpep@sas.ac.uk. 

Being Human Festival is the UK’s national festival of the humanities and runs from 5 – 14 November with the theme Crossroads. The 2026 call for applications offers multiple funding pathways and one unfunded pathway. 

There will be an application webinar on Wednesday 25 February, 11am – 12pm, to find out more. Sign up here 
Find out about Being Human Festival 2026 

For questions relating to Being Human Festival, please email beinghuman@sas.ac.uk. 

The RSC Outreach Fund is open for 2026 – offering up to £10,000 to support exciting and creative chemical science engagement activities across the UK and ROI.
We fund a broad range of projects that connect communities from all backgrounds with the chemical sciences.

If you work with or have an idea to engage schools, community groups, families, public audiences or underserved communities, this fund could help support your work or bring a brand‑new idea to life. Or if you are looking for inspiration – take a look at the RSC Education Outreach Hub

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, with deadlines at 5pm (UK time) on 6 March, 5 June, and a final closing deadline at 5pm on 2 October 2026.
If anyone has any questions about a project or application, please do get in touch with me via outreach@rsc.org.

For information on the scheme and to access the application form please go to the website.

The Centre for Translational Medicine would like to remind researchers of the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Pre-grant Support Fund! 🎉This scheme offers up to £350 of funding to support PPIE activities in grant application! This is internal to staff across King’s Health Partners (KCL, GSTT, KCH, SLAM). Applications are reviewed on a monthly rolling basis. 
For more information on eligibility and to apply see Patient and Public Involvement/Engagement Pre-grant Support Fund :: King’s Health Partners

New King’s/MRC Public Partnership Fund: Supporting MRC applicants to involve public contributors at pre-application stage.

We are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of a new funding scheme to support early career researchers and those looking to transition to research independence to better involve public partners in the development of their MRC grant applications.

As outlined in the MRC’s Public Partnership Strategy, the MRC is placing a greater emphasis on the meaningful involvement of public partners in the shaping of the research it funds. Such partnerships with patients and/or communities during grant development has been shown to increase the relevance of research proposals and their potential for impact.

Opening in January 2026, the King’s/MRC Public Partnership programme will provide funds of up to £400 to successful applicants, along with mentorship from experts in patient and public involvement, to support early-stage public involvement.

An information session will be held on Wednesday the 14th of January at 13:30, ahead of the schemes launch on Monday 19th of January.

You can sign-up to the information session here.

For more information, please get in touch with the King’s MRC Public Partnership Team at MRC-PPF@kcl.ac.uk