The Burdett Trust For Nursing | Funding Priorities

newpic2 The Burdett Trust for Nurses makes grants to support the nursing contribution to health care within three key priority areas:

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

ii) 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.

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

The Burdett Trust for Nursing makes grants through the following grant programmes:

1. The Empowerment Programme

In August 2011 the Trust invited proposals from charities, non-profit and public organisations wishing to take advantage of opportunities arising from recent developments in the health sector. The Trust is interested in supporting projects that will:

transform services at the hospital-community interface by empowering nurses and other health professionals to provide the right care, in the right place, at the right time
empower health visitors to provide a comprehensive service by helping them to reassert their roles in promoting health and preventing ill health, particularly among vulnerable groups and communities.

Please note that the closing date for proposals for this programme has now passed.

Information about successful bids will be published on this website later in the year.

2. Burdett Bursaries

The Burdett Bursaries programme will make bursary awards of up to £5,000 to nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who wish to undertake post-graduate study. Applicants must read the programme guidance material carefully and applications must be submitted via the online application form:

[Click here to download the guidance material for this programme]

[Click here to access the online application form]

3. Funding Partners

To maximise the impact of their grants the trustees have appointed the following charitable organisations to manage grants programmes on their behalf:

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

The trustees regularly review their funding partner arrangements and consider proposals from organisations that would like to become a Burdett Funding Partner. Trustees will publish information about becoming a BurdettFunding Partner on this webpage when they are considering appointing additional partners.

4. 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: the Trustees do not accept unsolicited applications for the Proactive Grants Programme