Vivensa Foundation — grant history
Latest income
£1.4m
Grants listed (FY2024)
32
Listed grants total
£6.5m
Accounts grants total
£6.6m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts
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.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Recreation
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Disability
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Brent
- Calderdale
- City Of Wakefield
- City Of Westminster
- Enfield
- Bradford City
- Kensington And Chelsea
- Kirklees
- Leeds City
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Wiltshire Council | FY2023 | £75k | 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 |
| Platform Housing Group | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Enfield Town Schools' Partnership | FY2023 | £5k | #iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project |
| Sensory Trust | FY2023 | £5k | #iwill Care Home FaNs intergenerational linking project |
| Leeds Development Education Centre | 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 |