The Dunhill Medical Trust
WELCOME
welcome
Welcome to The DUNHILL MEDICAL TRUST (DMT), a UK-based Charitable Trust founded in 1950. The Trust has an annual investment income of approximately £3 million from which it makes charitable grants.
All DMT’s Grant-making is governed by the Charitable Objects set out within the Trust’s Constitution, the full details of which can be found in the Grant-making Policy.
Within the Charitable Objects the Trustees have decided that priorities for funding should reflect the national demographic of an increasingly ageing population, i.e.
- care of older people;
- research into diseases and issues related to ageing;
- disabilities which predominantly affect older people;
- rehabilitation for older people.
Guided by these priorities the focus for activity will be:
- the development of new and innovative projects
- projects with a low public profile that have difficulty attracting funding
- pump-priming projects that have the potential to develop and attract other sources of funding
- developing research capacity within the medical, clinical, and scientific community, particularly where this relates to issues of ageing and older people.
The Dunhill Medical Trust always receives many more applications than it has the funds to support. Even if a project fits within the criteria and priorities of the Trust and a detailed assessment has been made, the Trust may still be unable to provide a grant.
From time to time, the Trustees may decide that they wish to give greater focus to supporting work in a particular field.
For example, a new scheme of RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS was launched in October 2009. These are designed to provide training opportunities for talented clinicians, health professionals, and scientists who wish to pursue a research career in the fields of ageing, rehabilitation, or palliative care.
Applications for the 2010 pilot are now closed. Further rounds will be dependant on the evaluation of the outcomes.
More information about the work we support may be found by clicking on WHAT DO WE FUND. Elsewhere on this website you will find information about grants made by the Trust in the last three years, how to approach the Trust for charitable support, and the criteria that all applications need to satisfy.
Processing delays
Possibly because of the economic situation, this year the Trust is receiving a greatly increased number of outline applications.
Whilst every effort is being made to respond as quickly as possible, new applications are presently taking up to six weeks to process
DMT is a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities AMRC and an NIHR recognised charity.