THE RCN FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1134606 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£1.7m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£743k

Accounts grants total

£843k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Applications for research funding close at 5pm on 18 September. Applications for the greener and sustainable nursing practice grant close at 5pm on 4 September. Education grants will reopen on 19 August.

Summarised from www.rcnfoundation.org.uk on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (6 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (5 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Disability (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (3 grantees)
Cambodia (1 grantee)
Cardiff (1 grantee)
India (1 grantee)
Kenya (1 grantee)
Nepal (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Pakistan (1 grantee)
Philippines (1 grantee)
Sri Lanka (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Individuals (Benevolent Grants)	FY2025	£231k	Benevolent
Individuals (Education Bursaries)	FY2025	£188k	Education
Individuals (Project and Research Grants)	FY2025	£44k	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£38k	Research
London North West NHS Healthcare Trust	FY2025	£36k	Research
London North West NHS Healthcare Trust	FY2025	£30k	Research
University of Salford	FY2025	£25k	Research
Liverpool John Moore University	FY2025	£20k	Research
University of Keele	FY2025	£19k	Research
Royal College of Nursing	FY2025	£19k	Research
London South Bank University	FY2025	£15k	Research
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	FY2025	£15k	Research
University of Wolverhampton	FY2025	£12k	Research
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£10k	Research
University of Keele	FY2025	£10k	Research
University of York	FY2025	£10k	Research
University of Huddersfield	FY2025	£10k	Research
Edinburgh Napier University	FY2025	£10k	Research
National Health Care Conferences Uganda	FY2025	£1k	Research
Individuals (Benevolent Grants)	FY2024	£206k	Benevolent grants to 576 individuals
Individuals (Education Grants)	FY2024	£183k	Education grants to 122 individuals
University of Salford	FY2024	£116k	Research grant (Chair in Adult Social Care Nursing)
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£100k	Research grant
RCN Foundation Professional Bursary Scheme	FY2024	£90k	Education grants to individuals
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	FY2024	£30k	Research grant (Experiences of internationally educated nurses)
University of Wolverhampton	FY2024	£25k	Research grant (Health inequality)
RCN Foundation Into Nursing	FY2024	£23k	Education grants to individuals
London School of Economics and Political Science	FY2024	£22k	Research grant (Economic value of learning disability nursing)
RCN Foundation Advance Practice Learning Disabilities Scholarship	FY2024	£16k	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation Needlemakers Grant	FY2024	£14k	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation Leathersellers’ Grant for Children and Young People Mental Health	FY2024	£13k	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation LV= Health Care Support Workers Grant	FY2024	£12k	Education grants to individuals
University of Keele	FY2024	£10k	Research grant (Urgent care tool)
University of York	FY2024	£10k	Research grant
Edinburgh Napier University	FY2024	£10k	Research grant (Access to practice placements)
RCN Foundation Kidby Grant	FY2024	£10k	Education grants to individuals
University of Huddersfield	FY2024	£10k	Research grant (Digital CBT tool)
Queen’s Nursing Institute	FY2024	£9k	Project grant (National Care Home Nurses’ Network)
National Health Care Conferences Uganda	FY2024	£4k	Project grant
RCN Foundation Rae Bequest Grant	FY2024	£2k	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation Olufunke Adeyeye Grant	FY2024	£2k	Education grants to individuals
RCN	FY2024	£1k	Grant towards the 2024 Learning Disability Summit
RCN Foundation Monica Baly History of Nursing Grant	FY2024	£1k	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation Marcia Mackie Grant	FY2024	£986	Education grants to individuals
RCN Foundation Kershaw Grant	FY2024	£847	Education grants to individuals
Conference Grant	FY2024	£554	Education grants to individuals
Cardiff University	FY2024	£50	Research grant (Inside the Black Box project)
University of Salford	FY2023	£700k	Chair in Adult Social Care Nursing
University of Edinburgh	FY2023	£77k	Neurological Rehabilitation and Care / YARNS Transition study
Cardiff University	FY2023	£50k	ProJudge study
King’s Fund	FY2023	£49k	Follow Your Compassion project
Salt Thinking	FY2023	£13k	Not specified in note 5, likely research/consultancy
University of York	FY2023	£10k	MOOC for children and young people's mental health
University of Huddersfield	FY2023	£10k	HAMHA app / Children and young people's mental health
Impact Foundation	FY2023	£9k	Impact Nursing Institute training
RCN – Sharing nurses’ life stories	FY2023	£5k	Archives project
Northumbria University	FY2023	£-2k	Write back of unused award
Deliveroo	FY2022	£300k	Deliveroo-RCN Foundation NHS Education Grants Programme
University of Edinburgh	FY2022	£200k	Postgraduate Certificate in Neurological Rehabilitation and Care
Salt Thinking	FY2022	£62k	Here for Life campaign creative agency
University of Huddersfield	FY2022	£30k	Children and Young People’s Mental Health Screening and Assessment App
Queen Mary University	FY2022	£11k	HeaLiN study
Northumbria University	FY2022	£11k	EMPATH study
University of Hertfordshire	FY2022	£10k	CareVis study
Society and College of Radiographers	FY2022	£9k	Band 5 Leadership Development Needs Study
Adeyeye family	FY2022	£6k	Olufunke Adeyeye Education Grant
RCN	FY2022	£4k	Mary Abbott project
Keele University	FY2022	£2k	Amin Abdullah RCN Foundation Grant
Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI)	FY2022	£2k	QNI’s Care Home Nurses’ Network
Canterbury Christ Church University	FY2022	£2k	Amin Abdullah RCN Foundation Grant

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 743000 vs reference 843000 (11.9% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.