Funding Priorities

newpic2 In 2009 the Trustees introduced four grant programmes:

Building Nursing Research Capacity : to support clinical nursing research and research addressing policy, leadership development and delivery of nursing care.

Building Nurse Leadership Capacity: supporting nurses in their professional development to create a cadre of excellent nursing and allied health professionals who will become leaders of the future and foster excellence and capacity-building in advancing the nursing profession.

Supporting Local Nurse-led Initiatives: to support nurse-led initiatives that make a difference at local level and are focussed explicitly on improving care for patients and users of services.

Proactive grants: the trustees will identify funding opportunities that advance the Trust's long-term strategic goals.

To maximise the impact of their grants the trustees have appointed ‘Funding Partners’ to manage the first three of these programmes. All applications for these programmes must be submitted via the funding partners. Please note that the trustees do not accept any unsolicited applications for the ‘proactive’ grants programme.

FUNDING PARTNERS

After a rigorous selection process the Trustees appointed four organisations as their initial funding partners:

Click on the names of our Funding Partners above to link to their websites to find out how to apply for a Burdett grant.

BECOMING A BURDETT FUNDING PARTNER The trustees regularly review their funding partner arrangements and consider proposals from organisations that would like to become a Burdett Funding Partner. The latest round of bids to become funding partners closed at Midday on Friday 27 November 2009. The details of our new Funding Partners will be published on this website in Spring 2010.

PROACTIVE GRANTS PROGRAMME Burdett Trust for Nursing aims to be more than a reactive grant-making charity. It strives to be a catalyst for change, an active player in improving the health and well-being of patients. To this end the trustees participate in dialogue and share new ideas with grantee organisations, service providers, other funders and government agencies. The Trust aims to create opportunities to engage nursing stakeholders in collaborative problem-solving and program development. Through the Proactive Grants Program trustees work with a wide range of public and private partners to advance the Foundation's long-term goals. Proactive grants are initiated by the Burdett Trust for Nursing.

Please note: we do not accept unsolicited applications for these grants.