Research grant

THE FUND'S POLICY The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field.

Learning Disabilities Learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities), with or without autism are our priorities for funding. We consider projects for children or adults. We do not give grants for research into or care of people with mental illness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, nor ADHD, if they do not also have learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).

We generally direct our limited funds towards the initiation of research so that it can progress to the point at which there is sufficient data to support an application to one of the major funding bodies.

We only fund the directly incurred costs of research. This can include the salary costs of researchers to be employed full or part time directly on the project, but not a percentage salary recoup of academics employed on permanent University contracts. We do not cover University Full Economic Costs, nor open access publishing costs, nor costs for conference attendance.

Applications will only be considered from established research workers and will be subject to normal professional peer review procedures.

We generally direct our funds towards the initiation of research so that it can progress to the point at which there is sufficient data to support an application to one of the major funding bodies.

Please note, the Fund does not usually support qualitative studies.