Large grants
Our Large Grants Programme 25/26 is focused specifically on Treatment and Care grants. The minimum amount you can apply for is £10,000 and the maximum amount is £50,000.
Current status
Our large grant funding is currently open for applications, until 31st December 2025.
We will respond to large grant enquiries up until 23rd December 2025.
After this date, the inbox will not be monitored from 23rd December-4th January due to the festive period.
- Applications for large grants can still be submitted up until 31st December, but we will not be able to answer any enquiries during this time.
- Application forms and guidance documents can be downloaded below.
We’ll resume monitoring emails from 5th January and respond as soon as possible after that date.
*Important* - our funding is aligned with the South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw, and North Derbyshire Cancer Alliance region. Therefore, any project we fund would need to be specifically designed to benefit people within this area.
Find out more
Treatment and care grants
We are looking for community or hospital related projects, from individuals, groups or organisations, supporting people with a cancer diagnosis.
The minimum amount you can apply for is £10,000 and the maximum amount is £50,000. We are flexible with the term length; ideally we are looking for one-year projects, however it can be anything up to three years.
Applications open on Wednesday 1st October 2025. We will be accepting applications until Wednesday 31st December 2025.
Once applications close on 31st December 2025, the Weston Park Cancer Charity Grant-Giving Committee will review the applications in the New Year.
We are aiming to make a decision by March 2026 with successful projects commencing from April 2026 onwards.
For an application form, please email our team: grants@wpcancercharity.org.uk.
Our funding is aligned with the South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw, and North Derbyshire Cancer Alliance region. Therefore, any project we fund would need to be specifically designed to benefit people within this area.
Research grants
Our research grants fund research projects to improve our understanding and treatment of cancer, by investing in medical, scientific and care-related research that can enable people to live longer or better lives with or beyond cancer. This includes pre-clinical lab projects, clinical trials, and studies into the cancer experience.
Read more about our current research projects here.
Our research grants will also undergo external peer review by experts from national and international institutions. Applicants are invited to suggest reviewers or to request specific reviewers not be contacted. Applicants are given the opportunity to respond to reviewer comments.
Examples of our 'Treatment and Care' large grants
Age UK Sheffield service supports over 1,000 people, after receiving quarter-million-pound grant from Weston Park Cancer Charity
The Cancer Support Independent Living Service provides older people who have been impacted by cancer with a three-month support package.
Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service receives £35,000 grant from Weston Park Cancer Charity
The grant will help the TYA team to offer everything from emotional support sessions to hardship grants.
Sheffield United Community Foundation
Healthy Families, Healthy Futures is a free programme of exercise sessions to support people affected by cancer and other physical or mental health conditions. Activities include walking football, chair-based exercise, badminton and seated dance.
Examples of our 'Research' large grants
Improving outcomes for secondary breast cancer patients
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are sharing what is going in our region to improve outcomes for people living with breast cancer.
Celebrating 25 years of pioneering research at Weston Park Cancer Centre
Weston Park Cancer Charity has been supporting research at the Cancer Clinical Trials Centre since 1999.
Weston Park Cancer Charity announces near £300,000 grant for new personalised treatment research project
We're delighted to have reaffirmed our commitment to enabling research in Sheffield by awarding a near £300,000 grant to a University of Sheffield research project which could enable global change to the effectiveness of cancer treatment.
