CFAs: Non-Smoking Lung Cancer Grants Programme – UK

Only then can they identify the causes of the disease so that people with non-smoking lung cancer are diagnosed earlier, have access to evidence-based information and better treatments and live longer and healthier lives.

There are 48,500 new lung cancer cases in the UK each year. That’s around 130 people per day who are diagnosed with the disease (1). Around 15% of lung cancer is in those who are non or never smokers (2) and the overall number of lung cancer in non-smokers is on the rise (3). It is estimated that nearly 6,000 people in the UK who have never smoked die of lung cancer every year (4).

The programme offers small grants (up to £50k) to fund research that supports the charity’s mission in one of the following ways:

• To enhance the public understanding of non-smoking lung cancers.
• To enhance the understanding of who is diagnosed with non-smoking lung cancers.
• To improve the quality of life of someone diagnosed, being treated for, or living with non-smoking lung cancer.
• To improve the process or experience of being diagnosed with non-smoking lung cancer, including achieving earlier diagnosis.
• To improve the process or experience of being treated for non-smoking lung cancer, such as managing the side effects of treatment.
• To widen access to treatment for non-smoking lung cancer.
• To improve how the psychological, information, financial, and practical needs of people with non-smoking lung cancer are;
  • met during and beyond active treatment and at end-of-life.
  • accessed or offered.
  • and with information needs, how this supports informed decision-making around treatment and care.

What they fund?

• Total funding available: £150,000
• Maximum per grant: £50,000
• Only the direct costs of the research/project will be funded.
• Salary costs for staff leading and delivering the research will be funded, as long as dedicated time is available for the delivery of the research.
• Grants can be used to fund a stand-alone project or research that contributes to a wider project, such as seed funding or pilot work.
• Grants can be used to fund both primary and secondary research (for example, they can be used to review data/outcomes of previous research or existing databases that progresses the understanding in this field).
• Grants can be used to cover the costs related to the research/project over a period of 24 months.

What you cannot apply for?

• The grants programme will not fund research into drug development
• The funding cannot be used to extend the time working on an existing project
• Funding cannot be given to projects where the lead applicant is based outside of the UK

Who is eligible?

• Applicants must be employed at a university, NHS hospital, hospice or research institution in the UK. They accept applications from joint lead applicants, and where joint applications are successful the funding will be awarded to a single lead applicant.
• Applicants must be able to start their research/projects within 6 months of funding being awarded unless pre-agreed with the charity.

For more information, visit Ruth Strauss Foundation.