Grants
BACCN GRANTS
The aim of our grant funding is to enhance skills, knowledge and competence in critical care nursing and to improve patient care and outcomes. We offer a range of funding opportunities:
Event attendance
You may apply for funding for up to a maximum of £1000. Funds may be used to attend conferences, or other study events relevant to critical care nursing. Please note, you can only apply for yourself to attend.
Stakeholder Engagement
You may apply for funding for up to a maximum of £1000. Funds may be used to support activities related to engaging with patients, public and other health care staff. Payments to patients and the public must adhere to the UK Standards for Public Involvement
Staff Activities
You may apply for funding for up to a maximum of £1000. Funds may be used for activities that support critical care practice for example, staff well being or inclusion activities.
Projects
You may apply for up to a maximum of £2000. Funds may be used for quality improvement, service evaluations, or research projects.
Any research project funded by the BACCN (a non-commercial partner of the NIHR) may be eligible for adoption onto the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network portfolio. For further information please visit the NIHR website.
For a project grant you will be required to submit:
- A Project Proposal which must include:
- Lay summary
- Project justification with reference to relevant literature
- Project aims and objectives
- Methods (recruitment, data collection, data analysis)
- Dissemination strategies
- Evidence of appropriate ethical/ institutional approval (please note funding will be subject to confirmation of ethical approval where relevant)
- A single page curriculum vitae of the project lead
In line with other charities, we are unable to pay staff salaries.
How to apply
Complete the form below and return with additional documents as required.
De-identified applications will be reviewed by at least two national board members.
You may apply for funding at any time throughout the year.
We aim to notify you of the outcome of your application within 6 weeks of receipt.
Terms and Conditions:
- You must have been a BACCN member for a minimum of one year.
- Only one grant per year may be awarded to an individual.You are expected to demonstrate how they will use the grant to enhance their own practice and/ or to improve patient care and outcomes.
- Successful applicants will be expected to support a short report (no more than 250 words), which we will be published on our website, or in our journal/ newsletter.
- Usual practice will be for receipts pertaining to expenditure to be submitted prior to release of funds using the expense form (see link below). For larger sums of money, partial payment of the grant total may be possible, or the BACCN may be invoiced directly by a third party. Please contact the BACCN support team
- Awardees who do not meet the requirements of the award will not be eligible for future funding, except in special circumstances previously agreed by the BACCN Executive Board.
Grants Application Form updated Dec 2022