Large grants
Our Large Grants Programme funds projects linked to both 'Research' and 'Treatment and Care' that are more than £1,500.
Types of large grants
Important: please note our large grant funding is currently CLOSED. Please check back here for current status.
Large grants (more than £1,500) are reviewed by the Grant-Giving Committee. The Committee is comprised of trustee members with experience in the field, (we don’t currently have patient representatives on the committee). The Committee make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees, who make the final decision.
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.
