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The Evelyn Trust seeks projects for which our funding makes the difference to the project getting off the ground

Over the last 15 years we have made grants to charities and non-profit making organisations.

We seek to benefit a broad range of projects that influence the development and delivery of health and wellbeing services

Except for our small grants programme our annual application deadline is 30 November

The Evelyn Trust is a grant-making charity supporting medical research and health and wellbeing projects in Cambridgeshire.

Each year we make grants of up to £250,000 totalling between £500,000 and about £1.5 million.

Except for our small grants programme our annual application deadline is 30 November.

Medical research grants

Health and wellbeing grants

Latest news

Ben Ravenhill at work in the lab

Investigating the cell’s defences when under viral attack

Dr Ben Ravenhill, an Internal Medicine Trainee and Academic Clinical Fellow at Addenbrooke’s was recently awarded funds by the Evelyn Trust to investigate how...

Children and therapist around the art table

Photograph by Colin Hattersley

Helping to reduce anxiety in young patients

The Evelyn Trust has funded Teapot Trust to provide an art therapist to the paediatric rheumatology clinic at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. The first...

Iosifina Foskolou

Investigating improvements to immunotherapy

In 2017, we reported on the establishment of the new Patrick Sissons Evelyn Trust Research Fellowship in Infection and Immunity. We talk to Iosifina Foskolou...

Building resilience in children and families

To meet a growing need in mental health services for children and families, three local agencies came together to launch the Stronger Families – Building...

Small grants programme

We recognise that Cambridgeshire has many smaller charities for which grants of less than £10,000 can be very meaningful and important.

Our small grants programme for health and wellbeing projects is a rolling annual fund with no application deadline.

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