Aims/priorities: Grants are available to help health charities recover from the negative effects of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and to support patients and their families who are vulnerable to infection. The funding is intended for UK-based organisations and will support a range of different projects designed to help meet the needs of vulnerable patients during the coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. The funding aims to enable valuable projects to go ahead. These are projects which might otherwise have proven too difficult or impossible for some organisations to implement (due to the unexpected financial constraints brought about by COVID-19). The funding could also be used for newly conceived projects that could significantly improve the lives of people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection.
Who can apply? Organisations interested in applying must be a registered UK based charity that have been operating as a charity for three years or more.
Grant amount: Up to £20,000
Application process: Information on how to apply (there is no application form) can be found in the Criteria and Application Guidelines document on the MSD website. All applications should be sent as a word document to grantscommittee@merck.com
Deadline: 31 July 2020, 5pm.
Contact information: Email grantscommittee@merck.com
Website address: www.msd-uk.com