Innovation in Women’s Cancer Accelerator Fund
Overview
The Innovation in Women's Cancer Accelerator Fund is a collaborative scheme between Life Sciences Hub Wales and the Academy of Medical Sciences. The fund is designed to foster collaboration and provide crucial seed funding to help organisations advance innovative solutions to improve the outcomes for and the experience of women affected by cancer.
Project teams or departments from within UK-registered organisations are invited to apply. This flexible funding initiative can be used to support activities including:
- Travel, accommodation and mobility costs to bring together new collaborations
- Venue Hire
- Expenses for advisors or contributors in project scoping or delivery including PPI costs
- Consumables and project-related costs to support ongoing initiatives in delivery
- Training that helps support activity outputs
- Cost for staff time
Funding
Project teams or departments from within UK-registered organisations can apply for an award between £5,000 to £10,000.
Awardees will also be able to access to practical support, provided by Life Sciences Hub Wales and/or the Academy of Medical Sciences, including:
- Project co-ordination support: Bespoke support up to 1 day per week for 3 months.
- Innovation Assessment: Access to a structured assessment for proposed innovations or new technology, providing constructive feedback
- Funding Expertise: support to identify and apply for relevant funding calls
- Sector Intel: Rapid scan reports on innovation topics to understand existing activity across the UK.
- Partnerships Support: Access to networks, connections and events to discuss opportunities and challenges
- Marketing and Communications: creation of collaborative case studies, amplification and calls to action
Scope
Applicants must demonstrate that awarded funds will be used for:
- Partnership working, which is Cross-Sector, multidisciplinary and includes at least one Welsh-based partner.
The following sectors are in scope for this fund:
- Academia
- NHS/Social Care
- Non-Profit/NGO/Charity
- Private Sector
- Activities that will improve the outcomes and the experience for women affected by cancer, aligning with local policies such as
- Activities that demonstrate value for money, including being able to provide 50% in kind matched value
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be:
- Able to demonstrate that they have a UK-based bank account in the name of the lead applicant organisation.
- Not in financial difficulties (able to pass due diligence checks on business status, and able to declare that the business and named applicants are not subject to any material litigation).
- Able to confirm that any insurance and compliance with legislated requirements are in place.
- Eligible to receive grant funding.
- Agree to monitoring requirements.
- Able to agree to sharing of high-level project details and outcomes in the public domain.
- If the intended recipient is a non-public sector organisation and the intended mechanism of compliance with UK Subsidy is through Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) applicants must be eligible to receive grant funding (not have received £315,000 within the last three years) and provide a signed declaration to confirm.
- Must be able to evidence expenditure on project activities and that required outcomes have been achieved.
- Costs are to occur after the award letter date and before project activity deadline and related specifically to the project.
Eligible Costs
The grant is restricted to expenditure that is directly related to the project only. Where items will be used outside the project activity, they may only fund the proportion of the costs of that item that relates directly to project activity. Evidenced costs must fulfil the eligibility criteria detailed below in order to qualify for payment. Any costs that would usually be capitalised on company accounts are ineligible for this funding.
Please see Guidance for further details.