Applicants can apply for the following funding bands. Please note the restrictions associated with the highest band.
Funds between £1 and £2,499
Organisations looking to deliver a project focusing on blood, organ or combined projects can apply for this funding band.
Funds between £2,500 - £10,000
Organisations looking to deliver a project focusing on blood, organ or combined projects can apply for this funding band.
Funds between £10,001 and £20,000
Organisations looking to deliver the following can apply within this funding band
- A project focused on blood donation
- A project focused on both blood and organ donation
Organisations applying for funding at this band must have previous experience of working with either a government department (ministerial or non-ministerial) or a public body e.g. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS England etc. Applicants must be able to show the impact achieved through these partnerships.
Funds of £20,000 (set amount)
The Community Engagement Leads initiative will allocate set grants of £20,000 to organisations that can create grassroots networks to promote stem cell donation in partnership with NHSBT and Anthony Nolan.
Organisations applying for funding at this band must have previous experience of working with either a government department (ministerial or non-ministerial) or a public body e.g. NHSBT, NHS England etc. Applicants must be able to show the impact achieved through these partnerships.
Additional information
Please note that all activity around blood donation must be aimed at the Black African and Black Caribbean communities and must be carried out in England.
Please also note that your budget outline should be inclusive of unrecoverable VAT.
Bidders can make one application to each band of funding if they wish (including the Community Engagement Leads initiative), but only one application per organisation will be approved. This is to ensure organisations have the best chance of receiving funding.
Applicants should also make clear in their application if they are applying for money from any other sources e.g. match funding, and should think carefully about the areas that they are requesting funding for, as these grants are funded by taxpayers. For example, we could not pay fees to artists/influencers or celebrities to endorse organ donation or fund international travel. Any travel costs for people to attend events would need to be standard class travel.
If applicants intend to use funds to employ a post or contribute towards staffing costs, NHSBT will not undertake any employment liability for these posts. All liability remains with the applying organisation.
Stem cell donation
We will be accepting applications for £20,000 set amount from lead organisations focusing on stem cell donation. We will only be funding applications focusing on Pakistani communities in Birmingham and Bradford.