About
The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust is a UK-registered charity that aims to improve health and care for people living with serious long-term or life-limiting conditions. The Trust fulfills Sir Jules Thorn's vision through grant programmes designed to support world-leading translational research, investment in research equipment and facilities, projects to integrate and improve care for people living with physical or mental ill health, and smaller charities providing practical and emotional support to people living with ill health or disability, and to their families and carers.
Funding Opportunities
Ann Rylands Small Donations
The Ann Rylands Small Donations programme is designed to help smaller charities that work exclusively to provide health and care services in the UK. The programme offers unrestricted funding to charities providing practical and emotional support to people with physical or mental ill health, people living with a disability, and their families and carers. The Trust prioritises appeals from medium-sized charities with income between £100,000 and £2 million that are independent and do not receive a substantial proportion of income from government or local authority contracts. Funding areas include improved quality of life for older people, people with disabilities, people with serious illness or chronic conditions, palliative and end-of-life care, and mental health support. All grants are unrestricted except that research is not eligible. The maximum award is £5,000, with the average grant typically between £2,000 and £3,000.
Scaling Impact in Health and Care Fund
The Scaling Impact in Health and Care Fund supports charities and NHS organisations to expand proven health and care interventions and deliver them more widely. The Fund focuses on projects underpinned by real-world evidence of effectiveness, with strong potential for adoption and integration at scale. It prioritises initiatives that can demonstrate sustainability, system-level benefit, and measurable improvements for people and services. Previously known as the Innovation and Improvement in Health and Care Fund, it was refined in 2025 to better reflect its focus on bridging the gap between models of care that have been shown to work in practice and securing the resources needed to deliver them at scale. The value of any awards made through the Fund will be between £150,000 and £500,000, with successful applicants required to draw down the funding within two years of the award date. Applications may address any area of physical or mental health, physical or learning disability, or end-of-life care.
The Research Infrastructure Fund
The Sir Jules Thorn Trust supports capital investment that will accelerate internationally competitive research in UK universities and/or NHS organisations through the Research Infrastructure Fund. Applications may address any discipline or disease area, but must demonstrate that the investment will translate into improvements in healthcare for patients. The programme provides capital funding to support innovation in medical research, reflecting the Trust's focus on translational research. It is likely that 2-3 awards will be made each year, with individual awards typically ranging from £150,000 to £500,000. Applications may be to fund research equipment or facilities in their entirety, or for a contribution towards the funding of a larger project. VAT can be included. Priority will be given to projects where the Trust's support has the potential to make a significant and distinctive contribution to accelerating research. The programme is open to UK universities, NHS organisations, and UK-registered charities which work in partnership with universities and the NHS to support translational research.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 4
- Active Now
- 3
- Source Domain
- julesthorntrust.org.uk
Catalog Data
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