ALICE'S ARC — grant history

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Latest income

£788k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£561k

Accounts grants total

£561k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The website does not provide a process for unsolicited applications. It states that a 'Request for Applications (RFA) in conjunction with SBF EPICC will lead to a $750K RMS research grant', indicating funding is awarded through specific collaborative partnerships rather than open calls.

Summarised from www.alicesarc.org · www.alicesarc.org/alices-arc-us-inc-st-baldricks-epicc-team-awards-grant-of-750k-for-rms-research/ on 16/08/2026. 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 (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	University College London	—	£108k
new	Wellcome Sanger & UCL Cancer Institute	—	£54k
new	The European paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG)	—	£3k
up	The University of Birmingham	£76k	£130k
not listed	Alice’s Arc US Inc	£250k	—
not listed	European paediatric Soft tissue Sarcoma Group (EpSSG)	£71k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The Institute of Cancer Research	FY2025	£250k	Research grant (Year 2 of project: Defining plasticity in RMS cells)
The University of Birmingham	FY2025	£130k	Research grant
University College London	FY2025	£108k	Research grant (Year 3 of projects: Tumour heterogeneity/micro-environment and RAS pathway)
Wellcome Sanger & UCL Cancer Institute	FY2025	£54k	Research grant (Project: Learning from outliers to improve the outcomes of children with RMS)
University of York	FY2025	£17k	Research grant (Year 3 of Living REFoRMS project)
The European paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG)	FY2025	£3k	Funding for Project Manager and Statistician
Alice’s Arc US Inc	FY2024	£250k	Research grant
The Institute of Cancer Research	FY2024	£205k	Research grant
The University of Birmingham	FY2024	£76k	Research grant
European paediatric Soft tissue Sarcoma Group (EpSSG)	FY2024	£71k	Research grant
University of York	FY2024	£17k	Research grant
The Institute of Cancer Research	FY2023	£547k	£339k to kickstart the first year of the project designed to unravel the mystery of the causes of cell changes leading to relapsed and refractory rhabdomyosarcoma. £45k for the second year of a work package relating to maturation targets and resistance models. £113k towards year two of the project investigating the MYOD1 L122R mutation in fusion negative disease.
University College London	FY2023	£134k	PostDoc to take information from Wellcome Sanger’s single cell analysis forward to develop a CAR T-cell treatment for rhabdomyosarcoma.
The University of Birmingham	FY2023	£48k	Year two of a research project designed to investigate fusion negative rhabdomyosarcoma with RAS pathway alterations focusing on DNA repair and replication stress.
University of York	FY2023	£17k	Payment for year one of Living REFoRMS, a project designed to aid families decision-making at the point of relapsed/refractory rhabdomyosarcoma by creating an online ‘dynamic’ resource.
Wellcome Sanger	FY2023	£5k	Work relating to the immune environment scRNAseq which includes re-agents, library making and sequencing for the project entitled ‘Identification and evaluation of foetal immune targets in rhabdomyosarcoma’.
University of Ulster	FY2023	£4k	Project involved two parent focus groups in order to discuss pathways to improve the sleep of children with life limiting conditions.
Teenage Cancer Trust	FY2023	£300	Not specified in detail, listed in Note 3.
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2022	£218k	Research into rhabdomyosarcoma
University of Birmingham	FY2022	£81k	Research into rhabdomyosarcoma
Wellcome Sanger Institute	FY2022	£57k	Research into rhabdomyosarcoma
European Paediatric Soft tissue sarcoma Study Group (EpSSG)	FY2022	£33k	Research support/operational management
University of Ulster	FY2022	£4k	Research into sleep of children with life limiting conditions
University of Birmingham	FY2021	£124k	Investigation of the MYOD1 L122R mutation in fusion negative rhabdomyosarcoma
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health	FY2021	£67k	Identification and evaluation of foetal immune targets in rhabdomyosarcoma
Institute of Cancer Research	FY2021	£49k	Exploring the use of liquid biopsies in the treatment of children with rhabdomyosarcoma

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 561394 vs reference 561394 (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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].