• You need to be a legally registered organisation.
• You need a bank account registered to that organisation.
• You need to pass our Due Diligence process and agree to our standard terms and conditions.

Other eligibility requirements may be included for particular funding, so always check the funding documentation carefully.

We would recommend you familiarise yourself with our two programmes. You should review the key programmatic guidance, which can be found on the HIF and R2HC programme pages.

Each programme will run funding opportunities which will be open for applications for a short time. This will be your opportunity to apply, if you feel you can match the call’s criteria. Sign up to receive our newsletters to be the first to hear about available funding.

Every funding opportunity is unique and will have its own assessment criteria. We recommend that you carefully review these requirements and make sure you meet them, and then demonstrate this as explicitly as possible in your application.

Each application will require a budget that matches your funding request. Before developing your budget please review our guidance documents around eligible costs and foreign currency.

Each funding opportunity will also have particular requirements governing budget rules on overhead cost rates. There may also be other budget requirements specific to the particular funding opportunity. Please make sure you meet all of these requirements.

Always use the templates provided when applying (see below resources section) – this speeds up the review process and allows us to come to funding decisions faster!

Due Diligence consists of vetting key team members and/or board members, as well as a review of organisational policies, to asses our any risk of funding you. Our detailed Due Diligence FAQs and Policy Guidance explains the process and what we’re looking for.

Once completed, as long as there are no significant changes, your organisation’s Due Diligence remains valid for three years. If you receive additional funding from us during that time, we will only need to carry out basic checks.

We have a standard grant agreement which will need to be signed by both your organisation and us. We have a “no negotiation” policy, and therefore don’t generally accept amendments to our standard agreement. The reason why we have such policy in place, is that Elrha has the obligation to transfer the same conditions included in its agreements with funders, to all downstream partners. We therefore recommend that you review our standard agreement with your legal team and share any queries you may have as early as possible.

You can find a copy of our standard grant agreement in the resources section below. You should share this in advance of receiving a funding decision with the relevant people at your organisation (eg, legal, contracting or awards teams). This will help shorten the time between the funding decision and the start of your project or research study.

If your organisation is often successful at receiving funding from us we may invite you to sign up to the Framework Agreement.

This agreement covers all our main contractual terms and spans a three-year period – during that time, we will draw up basic award letters for each positive funding decision. This makes the contracting process much quicker and will allow you to start your work much sooner.

You’ll be assigned a contact within the relevant programme (HIF or R2HC) who will keep up to date with the progress of your project/study and be on hand for any queries.

You must contact them if:

• You need to change key aspects of your project/study (eg, timeline, budgets, locations, outcomes).
• You need to change a key member of your team (we may need to conduct further vetting checks in this instance).

They will then guide you through the relevant process. Contact us if you don’t know who your programme contact is.

Payments are made to the bank account agreed at the contracting stage, unless you inform us that a change needs to be made.

Our R2HC Seed Funding payments are made in arrears, after the initial period is complete.

For other projects/studies, the first payment for is usually sent within 21 days of signing the agreement. Depending on your location and the way funds may be routed by intermediary banks, from our experience funds can take up to a further seven days to reach your account.

Subsequent payments are contingent on us receiving and signing off project/study reports.

If you have any queries on your payments, please email us through your relevant programme contact.

We may reduce payments if prior payments are not fully spent – this is especially true for final payments if the overall project/study is underspent. Details are included in your agreement with us. Payments are usually made within 21 days of the acceptance of the relevant reports and should clear within seven days of that.

Your bank, and any intermediary banks, may deduct bank charges whilst payment is en route, which will slightly reduce the amount you receive.

We always send payment in GBP. If your bank account is in a different currency, foreign exchange rate movements may change the amount you receive compared to the amount you expect.

If you have any queries on your payments, please email us through your relevant programme contact.

If you need to change where we send your payments, please get in touch with your assigned programme contact. You’ll need to provide proof of your new bank details.

We can only make payments electronically to a bank account registered to your organisation and not by any other method.