Each year, CCLG runs a number of research grant schemes, providing funding for world-leading research projects led by the brightest minds.
We also work in partnership with other charities, sharing our expertise in research and our research infrastructure to help them to fund world-class childhood cancer research, and managing research funding programmes on their behalf.
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Little Princess Trust New Ideas Grants
The Little Princess Trust (LPT) is keen to support innovation in children and young people’s cancer research, supporting promising ideas which may be challenging to find funding for from traditional research funders.
Our ‘New Ideas Grants’ are to help researchers generate high-quality preliminary data, or to demonstrate the validity of a hypothesis/study, to advance innovative and novel ideas with the potential to transform the treatment of children and young people’s cancer.
We are looking for impactful, ‘thinking outside the box’ ideas. Applicants should have a novel hypothesis. You may have some preliminary data that can be developed further, but this is not a pre-requisite for this grant round. We will prioritise exciting ideas with the greatest potential to secure further funding, including from LPT in future innovation-focused funding rounds. We are looking for projects which are genuinely new and haven’t been done before.
We expect the typical award for our New Ideas Grants will be up to £50,000 with a project duration of up to 12 months, however there is no upper limit for proposals and decisions are primarily based on the quality of the proposed research and its potential impact rather than cost.
Applications to this funding round should be for scientific proposals that study:
- New approaches to treatment, in particular:
- More effective treatment with fewer toxicities/on-treatment side effects
- Approaches to treatment that may lead to a reduction in short- and long-term sequelae of treatment (but studies focusing on treatment of late effects, health behaviour interventions for survivors, fertility/reproductive health and psychosocial aspects are unlikely to be considered)
- The causes of childhood or TYA cancer, where the research is likely to lead to an improvement in outcomes
- Accurate diagnosis of childhood or TYA cancer, where the research is likely to lead to an improvement in outcomes
The deadline for applications is 5pm, Tuesday 24 March 2026.