Conference and Meeting Grants | Children with Cancer UK

Grants for the support of conferences and meetings

To facilitate dissemination of research findings and encourage collaboration, we provide funding to support relevant conferences, meetings and workshops.

This funding stream is open throughout the year. Please note, we will not accept applications where the proposed meeting is less than three months from the submission date. Please email the Research Office if your meeting is close to your proposed submission date.

Important Dates & Times

This funding stream is open throughout the year.

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Eligible Events

Conferences

We will provide funding of up to £10,000 to support the cost of conferences where either the whole event or specific sessions are relevant to one or more of our research aims (below).

Specialist meetings
We will provide funding of up to £10,000 to support the cost of organising small meetings or workshops on specialist topics of relevance to one or more of our research aims (below).

We will fund events taking place both in the UK and overseas. Events taking place overseas must be international in nature and include collaborators from within the UK (although the organisers may be outside the UK).

Research aims

We want to understand more about why children develop cancer, to find explanations for the increase in risk and to establish whether prevention is a possibility
We want to drive forward the development of novel approaches to diagnosis, identification of markers of likely outcome and improved treatments for childhood cancer in order to tackle those forms which still elude successful treatment and to minimise the risk of adverse, treatment-related effects
We want to understand more about the long-term risks faced by childhood cancer survivors, of whom there are now more than 35,000 in the UK.