Completing your proposal and submitting it for funding

By this point you should have already had many conversations/meetings etc with your academic and Trust R&D offices to ensure full costings are in place and that those in authority have agreed to support your study.

You are usually required to have a letter of support from your Trust partners. These take 14 days to arrange, so do not leave this until the last minute: be prepared!

There is a discipline to completing a research proposal, which means that you need to pay attention to the requirement of each section of the form, and take note of any guidance notes that will help. The panel reviewing your proposal will find it much easier to follow what you are trying to say, if you have made sure that your arguments are coherent, and that you have provided all the information asked for in the format requested.
You can find some very useful tips on how to complete your proposal by looking here and you can also contact the Research Facilitator.

Most submissions for funding are now made electronically, and with a very specific date and time deadline. You would be well advised not to leave submission to the last minute, when many others will be trying to do the same: if the system is busy and you get caught in a log-jam, then you might miss the deadline. Try to submit your proposal a few days before the deadline: advance planning will pay dividends in the end.