Vivensa Foundation — grant history

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Latest income

£1.4m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£4.1m

Accounts grants total

£4.1m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Cross-checked against the funder’s own 360Giving open-data publication: 7 of 35 grants we extracted from its FY2025 accounts match a published grantee by name (20%), and 5 also match on amount within 2%. Differences usually reflect accounting-year vs award-date timing and grants the accounts aggregate. Published 360Giving grants in the file: 455.

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Now open: Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers with the Academy of Medical Sciences (deadline 1 September) and Joint MRC / Vivensa Foundation Professional Doctorate: Clinical research training fellowship (deadline 2 September)
What they don’t fund: Protocols, service evaluation and quality improvement project abstracts are not eligible.

Summarised from vivensafoundation.org.uk · vivensafoundation.org.uk/apply-for-funding/ · vivensafoundation.org.uk/academy/apply-to-join/ on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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THE PERCIVAL GUILDHOUSE “The Dunhill Medical Trust Our primary donor for the installation of an internal lift in 2020”

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 (11 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (10 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (8 grantees)
Disability (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (6 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (3 grantees)
Recreation (3 grantees)
Amateur Sport (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Calderdale (2 grantees)
Leeds City (2 grantees)
Lancashire (2 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Bradford City (2 grantees)
Kirklees (2 grantees)
Cheshire West & Chester (1 grantee)
Cheshire East (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Housing LIN	—	£936k
new	University College London	—	£454k
new	Newcastle University	—	£386k
new	City St George’s, University of London	—	£382k
new	Lancaster University	—	£326k
new	Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit	—	£122k
new	ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES	—	£114k
new	Innovation fellowships in healthy ageing (co-funded with Zinc)	—	£71k
up	University of Sheffield	£120k	£300k
down	Imperial College London	£315k	£120k
up	University of Birmingham	£12k	£30k
down	University of Bristol	£397k	£5k
down	King’s College London	£367k	£2k
down	University of Glasgow	£120k	£2k
not listed	Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit Advisory	£400k	—
not listed	The University of Sheffield	£399k	—
not listed	Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London	£392k	—
not listed	University of Surrey	£354k	—
not listed	Social Finance	£350k	—
not listed	University of Oxford	£300k	—
not listed	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	£216k	—
not listed	University of Nottingham	£200k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Housing LIN	FY2025	£936k	Flagship programme on housing as a social determinant of health
University College London	FY2025	£454k	Improving Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia-related cortical visual impairment (‘3Dem’)
Newcastle University	FY2025	£386k	EYESAVE: AI-enabled triage for Glaucoma
City St George’s, University of London	FY2025	£382k	Transforming eye care services: Evaluating the feasibility and utility of performing glaucoma assessments directly within care-homes and older peoples’ clinics
Lancaster University	FY2025	£326k	Brain stimulation for hearing aid efficacy in age-related hearing loss
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£300k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
University of Edinburgh	FY2025	£294k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
University College London	FY2025	£145k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit	FY2025	£122k	Capability development programme
Imperial College London	FY2025	£120k	Academy Excellence Awards - Rising Star
University of Exeter	FY2025	£120k	Academy Excellence Awards - Senior Leader
Academy of Medical Sciences	FY2025	£114k	Starter grants for clinical lecturers scheme
Innovation fellowships in healthy ageing (co-funded with Zinc)	FY2025	£71k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
Innovation fellowships in healthy ageing (co-funded with Zinc)	FY2025	£61k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
Innovation fellowships in healthy ageing (co-funded with Zinc)	FY2025	£52k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards
All awards	FY2025	£34k	Extension or dissemination support for previously awarded grants
University of Birmingham	FY2025	£30k	Capability development programme
Northamptonshire Carers	FY2025	£15k	Capability development for community organisations
Moorlands Home Link	FY2025	£15k	Capability development for community organisations
Chiltern Music Therapy	FY2025	£15k	Capability development for community organisations
Elders Council of Newcastle	FY2025	£15k	Capability development for community organisations
Leeds Older People’s Forum	FY2025	£15k	Capability development for community organisations
University of Bradford	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Senior Leader
University of Warwick	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Senior Leader
University of Bristol	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
University of Manchester	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
Heriot-Watt University	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£5k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
Leeds Beckett University	FY2025	£4k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
University of Aberdeen	FY2025	£4k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
Newcastle University	FY2025	£3k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
King’s College London	FY2025	£2k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
University College London	FY2025	£2k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
University of Glasgow	FY2025	£2k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust	FY2025	£1k	Academy Ignition Fund - Rising Star
Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit Advisory	FY2024	£400k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Capability Development Programme
The University of Sheffield	FY2024	£399k	Research project grants - Determining the relative contribution of macrophage ageing to gut degeneration, systemic frailty and cognitive decline, using the zebrafish model
University of Bristol	FY2024	£397k	Research project grants - Defining the pro-reparative roles of neutrophils in fracture responses: relationship to inflammaging and frailty
Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London	FY2024	£392k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards - Unravelling the tissue-specific lipid landscape in ageing: clues to new prolongevity therapeutic targets and strategies
King's College London	FY2024	£367k	Research project grants - Identification Of Age-associated Factors That Alter Immune Function During Tissue Regeneration In A Combined In Vivo And In Vitro Pipeline
University of Surrey	FY2024	£354k	Research project grants - Adrenergic regulation of immunosenescence and cognitive decline across the life course
Social Finance	FY2024	£350k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Developing and funding new service interventions addressing dementia and older people’s complex care needs using outcomes-based models
Imperial College London	FY2024	£315k	Research project grants - The epigenetic code of brain immune ageing and disease risk
University of Oxford	FY2024	£300k	Clinical research studentship awards - Anti-thrombotic drugs and the injured older person: how the endothelial-coagulation interface can inform clinical practice
University of Surrey	FY2024	£295k	Research project grants - Supporting adults with cerebral palsy to age well - development of a specialised link worker role
University of Edinburgh	FY2024	£292k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards - Improving prediction in later life syndromes by unlocking hidden information in clinical free-text
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	FY2024	£216k	Clinical research studentship awards - The implementation of vision screening in older adults who present to hospital following a fall: a mixed-methods study
King's College London	FY2024	£209k	Research project grants - Skewed X Chromosome Inactivation: A sex-specific biomarker of immune system ageing
University of Nottingham	FY2024	£200k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Understanding and enhancing the physiological resilience of older adults to improve health-span: a focus on skeletal muscle.
King's College London	FY2024	£200k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Integrating rehabilitation and palliative care to optimise function for older people: The Dunhill Medical Trust – Saunders PhD Programme
Aston University	FY2024	£200k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Aston Brain Health Cohort Study (ABaHCoS): Detection of dementia risk to support independent living.
Queen Mary University of London	FY2024	£198k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - New approaches to FrAilty: Inclusivity and REsilience in Ageing Research, a Doctoral Training Programme (FAIRER-DTP)
University of Leeds	FY2024	£198k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Reimagining Ageing Doctoral Research Programme
University of Exeter	FY2024	£197k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Dunhill Medical Trust Doctoral Training Programme for Ageing Research
Queen's University Belfast	FY2024	£193k	PhD student cohort awards (co-funded with host institutions) - Medicines in an ageing society – an interdisciplinary research programme: MED-AGE
Various (not individually listed)	FY2024	£176k	Further support for previously agreed projects or to assist with open access fees
University of Glasgow	FY2024	£120k	DMT Academy Excellence Awards - Rising Star
University of Sheffield	FY2024	£120k	DMT Academy Excellence Awards - Senior Leader
Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland	FY2024	£105k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Queen's Nurses (Scotland) Leadership Programme
The Social Care Institute for Excellence and University of Stirling-Socialudo	FY2024	£101k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Evaluating use of the Serious Game in Southwark
Zinc	FY2024	£74k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards - Innovation Fellowships in Healthy Ageing
King's College London	FY2024	£60k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards - Crosstalk between the immune and auditory systems within the cochlea (Co-funded with RNID)
Zinc	FY2024	£41k	Post-doctoral fellowship awards - Innovation Fellowships in Healthy Ageing
In Control	FY2024	£30k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Fixing the Plumbing and Wiring
University of Sheffield	FY2024	£25k	Research project grants - Re-establish UKAgeNet
University of Birmingham	FY2024	£12k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Capability Development Programme
Centre for Ageing Better	FY2024	£10k	Awards to support community-led systemic change - Triple Dividend Project: Campaigning for a Home Improvement Strategy
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£412k	Development of methods to identify digitally excluded older people, and tailoring of interventions to meet their digital needs
King's College London	FY2023	£299k	The Relationship between Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy, Ageing and Future Frailty
University of Cambridge	FY2023	£264k	CAVIAR – Calcification, Ageing and Vascular Imaging in the Assessment of Risk of stroke
University of Birmingham	FY2023	£191k	2022–02 PhD Studentships - multiple: School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation (SportExR) DMT PhD Programme
Co-Production Works	FY2023	£119k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
University of Leicester	FY2023	£113k	Improving access to physical health care for older people in mental health settings: ImPreSs-Care study
University of Cambridge	FY2023	£93k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
LB Haringey	FY2023	£75k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Bield Housing & Care	FY2023	£75k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Platform Housing Group	FY2023	£75k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Wiltshire Council	FY2023	£75k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Southend Care Limited	FY2023	£74k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Pobl Group	FY2023	£65k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Open Age	FY2023	£15k	Post-COVID online service development: research and evaluation study
Leeds Development Education Centre	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
The St Philips Centre Limited	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Woven Nest Theatre	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Sensory Trust	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Enfield Town Schools' Partnership	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Global Education Derby	FY2023	£5k	Phase 2 of the Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) programme
Diocese of Plymouth	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Windmills Foundation	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
Curriculum and Language Access Service (CLAS)	FY2023	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project
TEC Services Association (TSA)	FY2022	£400k	Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (Phase 2)
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£390k	The future of older people's housing and living arrangements: matching emerging technologies with needs for independent living and care support in a sustainable and systematic 'living lab' approach
Manchester Metropolitan University	FY2022	£311k	Co-creating age-friendly social housing: A collaborative research approach to improving the experience of ageing in place
University of Salford	FY2022	£299k	Developing age-friendly communities in an emergent post pandemic world
University College London	FY2022	£287k	Almshouse Resilient Communities (ARC) for the Future
Royal College of Art	FY2022	£281k	Enhancing Future Community Connectivity for Ageing Well in Place: Co-designing technology and environments
The Open University	FY2022	£280k	‘Amar jibon’ (My home, my life): developing living environments for Bangladeshi elders
Liverpool John Moores University	FY2022	£267k	Using body worn sensors to inform data-driven home modifications with the aim of reducing falls risk in older adults
University of Birmingham	FY2022	£210k	Personal fellowship awards - Exaggerated Immune Ageing and Pro-inflammatory Immune to Brain Communication in Delirium Pathophysiology
University of Edinburgh	FY2022	£200k	PhD multiple studentships - Acute illness, delirium and long-term cognitive decline in later life: causes and consequences
University College London	FY2022	£200k	PhD multiple studentships - Institute of Healthy Ageing
University of Aberdeen	FY2022	£200k	PhD multiple studentships - Building interventions to improve quality of life for older people
University of Strathclyde	FY2022	£200k	PhD multiple studentships - Supporting Older People with Sensory Impairment
University of Manchester	FY2022	£199k	PhD multiple studentships - Healthy Ageing Research Group
Newcastle University	FY2022	£184k	PhD multiple studentships - Multiple long-term conditions and social inequalities in ageing
Bournemouth University	FY2022	£125k	Impact of a novel, inclusive, community-based food model on health, wellbeing and social connectedness of older people
Housing Learning & Improvement Network (LIN)	FY2022	£84k	Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (Phase 2)
University College London	FY2022	£60k	Personal fellowship awards - To turn it up or to turn it down? Characterising the role of different levels of Wnt and Hedgehog signalling activity in the formation of auditory and vestibular hair cell types
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£60k	Personal fellowship awards - Understanding and treating high frequency age-related hearing loss
University of Sheffield	FY2022	£50k	Experimental dissection of the pro- and anti-ageing roles of different macrophage subpopulations
Aston University	FY2022	£50k	Understanding the impact of ageing on ‘active Extracellular Vesicles’ from Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) and consequences on repair responses: towards novel therapies in wound healing
University of Surrey	FY2022	£50k	Beta-adrenergic regulation of the aged immune system
The Francis Crick Institute	FY2022	£49k	Heterogeneity of Plasma Cells and of its Survival Niche in the context of Ageing
University of Birmingham	FY2022	£49k	Macroph-ageing and the Susceptibility to Infection
University of Bristol	FY2022	£49k	Neutrophils in Bone Ageing and Fracture Repair: Friend of Foe?
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2022	£47k	The effect of age on monocyte phenotype and function
Queen Mary, University of London	FY2022	£47k	Impact of aging on pro-resolving pathways in neutrophils: role of extracellular vesicles
Imperial College London	FY2022	£30k	Does lymphoid fibroblast senescence contribute to poor vaccine responses in older persons?
Age UK Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Galloway's Society for the Blind	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Linking Lives UK	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Age UK Cheshire	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Age UK Isle of Wight	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Age UK Lancashire	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care	FY2022	£11k	Capability development awards
Alive Activities	FY2022	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project - Inter-generational Linking project in South and East Bristol
The Linking Network	FY2022	£5k	#iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project - Inter-generational linking project in Bradford

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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 4069942 vs reference 4069941 (0.0% 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.