Purpose and background
The UKCHRC aims to unite charitable funders and stakeholders interested in supporting research to advance child health research by driving the research agenda, fostering collaboration, supporting training, strengthening infrastructure and building research capacity.
It was formally launched in January 2015 and founded by RCPCH, Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council. RCPCH hosts the collaboration and provides administrative support.
For more information about the history of the collaboration and why it was formed, you can you can read our article in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
- UKCHRC members
- Action for A-T
- Action Medical Research
- Arthritis UK
- Asthma + Lung UK
- Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)
- Bliss
- Brain Research UK
- Breakthrough T1D
- British Heart Foundation
- CDKL5 UK
- Cystic Fibrosis Trust
- DEBRA
- Diabetes UK
- Epilepsy Action
- Epilepsy Research Institute
- Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children (EATC4Children)
- Fight for Sight
- Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Charity
- Lupus UK
- Life Arc
- Make-A-Wish UK
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Meningitis Research Foundation
- Muscular Dystrophy UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- Niemann-Pick UK
- Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation (NNUKRF)
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
- Rett UK
- Sands
- The Academy of Medical Sciences
- The Institute of Clinical Research
- The Lullaby Trust
- Tuberous Sclerosis Association (TSA)
- Vasculitis UK
- Wellcome Trust
- Young Epilepsy
Aims
- Collaborative working
- Support the strategic alignment of smaller charities and the larger funding bodies.
- Provide a forum for organisations who support, or wish to support, child health research in order to realise the benefit to children’s lifelong health and the health of the nation.
- Share information, knowledge and expertise with charities and funding bodies.
- Seek to identify unmet needs across organisations and stakeholders and work to meet unmet needs.
- Increasing research capacity
- Work with charities to endorse and raise the profile of existing funding schemes.
- Facilitate collaboration between funders to support existing and the development of new fellowships, awards, studentships, PhDs and grants.
- Promote research related activities and opportunities for research involvement.
- Strengthening research infrastructure
- Develop, disseminate, and publicise research related resources and materials.
- Highlight relevant cross cutting strategic issues within child health research.
- Create awareness amongst charities/funders of infrastructure gaps.
- Share best practice in peer review of grant applications and wider funding cycles.
- Contribute to prioritisation of child health research.
- Improving patient and public Involvement and research awareness
- Advocate, lobby and raise awareness of the need to increase and strengthen children’s research in the UK.
- Translate research into easily accessible resources for patient and public consumption.
- Develop campaigns and programmes to raise the profile of research and highlight research needs.
- Facilitate opportunities for patients, families, carers, and the public to be involved within research.
Get involved
If your organisation would like to join the UKCHRC and get involved, please contact research@rcpch.ac.uk to find out more.
You can also browse our research funding opportunities.