Following the successful launch of the Cancer Innovation Grants in 2024, Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance is pleased to announce a further round of funding opportunities – subject to the approval of funding from NHS England.
The Cancer Research and Innovation Award Funding Scheme widens the scope of funding to include research projects in 2025/26. This means the Cancer Alliance can help with the funding of research or innovation projects that promote early cancer diagnosis, treatment, recovery and/or patient experience in the Humber and North Yorkshire area.
Mr Kartikae Grover, Clinical Director of Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance, said: “We are delighted to announce not only another opportunity to help fund our local culture of cancer innovation, but we may now also discover some fascinating research concepts that could be utilised to improve cancer services.”
What is the scheme?
The Cancer Research and Innovation Award Funding Scheme forms part of the Cancer Alliance’s aim to build a culture of cutting-edge cancer innovations and research, essential to improving early diagnosis, treatment, recovery and patient experience.
This programme has been created in collaboration with:
- Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber
- Innovation, Research and Improvement System (IRIS)
- NHS Humber Health Partnership
- York and Scarbrough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Voluntary and community sector
- Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance Patient and Public Representative Group
- Academic partners
The Cancer Alliance encourages all system stakeholders to initiate, identify and develop proposals for research and innovation, and to adopt evidence-based innovative approaches that can help earlier and faster diagnosis and assist those living with cancer. All applications should particularly target local priorities for improvement.
In April 2024, the Cancer Alliance launched its first-ever Cancer Innovation Grants programme, setting aside £400,000 to fund a wide variety of projects to improve early cancer detection or improve treatment or recovery for cancer patients in Humber and North Yorkshire. For more information on the winners, click here.
Who can apply?
The Cancer Alliance welcomes applications from:
- Primary and Secondary care organisations
- Patients
- Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs)
- Academic institutions
- Wider system stakeholders – e.g. social care organisations
Collaboration is encouraged across organisations and sectors.
Funding priorities
The Cancer Research and Innovation Award Funding Scheme is a non-recurring revenue financial scheme that promotes research and innovation in cancer care, to improve earlier and faster diagnosis and patient experience, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
The Cancer Alliance is particularly keen to receive applications that are in line with NHS Cancer National Planning Guidance, that:
- Have a focus on (but not exclusive to) tumour sites with the highest volume of late-stage diagnoses in the Humber and North Yorkshire region
- Target the 20% most deprived populations (Core 20plus) who experience health inequalities, including inclusion health groups
Funding availability
Individual awards will be funded to a maximum of £50,000.
Awards timeline
Applications opened today – Monday, 17th March 2025 – and close on Friday, 9th May 2025.
To find out more about the Cancer Alliance’s diagnostics and innovation work, please click here.