Who funds NSPCC research?
• The NSPCCs own funds are primarily for direct services to safeguard and help children and their families. There is a small budget for essential research supplemented by raising research grants elsewhere whenever possible. We do this by responding to research initiatives and calls for proposals from research trusts, government departments and other research funders, and by making direct approaches to possible funders with proposals for research. In recent years we have received grants for research from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Community Fund, the BBC Children in Need Appeal, the European Union Daphne Programme, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation, the Department of Health and the Childrens and Young Peoples Unit. Grants are either made direct to the NSPCC or to a university or research unit with which we are working in partnership.
