Your voice matters: our 2026 membership survey is open
We're seeking your feedback and insights to help us improve how we communicate with you, inform our strategic priorities and deliver the member experience you want.
Volunteering is vital to our work, with over 3,000 members contributing each year. Can you help us shape paediatrics, support future generations and influence healthcare while you gain leadership, networks and invaluable professional growth?
We are reviewing the programme of assessment for doctors in postgraduate paediatric training, to ensure that the assessments taken in the workplace and our examinations are fair, fit for purpose and sustainable.
Thirty years of paediatrics with RCPCH. Millions of moments that mattered. We invite you to share your story: what do you enjoy most about your work and what keeps you going even in those challenging days?
Our new 'Greener paediatrics' pages give you tips, useful resources and guidance for integrating environmentally responsible practices into your everyday clinical work.
We're excited to return to Birmingham for this year's conference from 11 to 13 May, on the theme, '30 years of RCPCH: Reflect, celebrate and inspire'. Can you join us?
Measles cases are rising again in parts of the UK. Our poster reminds us to be alert to measles symptoms in children and young people and to talk to families about vaccination.
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation - Pump-Priming Grants [CLOSED]
Supports research related to causes, cures or complications of diabetes.
Award programme/theme
Starter grant / pilot grant
Funding amount range
Under £50,000
Maximum duration
2 year
Submission deadline
DEBRA - All-Priorities Call [CLOSED]
Provides grants for research into Epidermolysis Bullosa.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£100,001 to £250,000
Maximum duration
3 years
Cancer Research UK - Various Funding Opportunities
Cancer Research UK fund exceptional scientists. Examples of funding include those for individual research, large-scale team programmes, multidisciplinary collaborations, and international consortia.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Comic Relief - UK Main Grants [CLOSED]
Comic Relief primarily makes grants to create long-term change to help achieve a world where everyone is safe, healthy, educated and empowered.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£50,001 to £100,000
Children's Liver Disease Foundation - PhD Programme [CLOSED]
Applications from PhD students to cover project consumables costs in a research project in liver disease in children and young people.
Award programme/theme
Research support grant
Children's Liver Disease Foundation - Small Grants Programme [CLOSED]
Supports a wide range of projects, including clinical, lab-based, social and nursing research that look into understanding and improving treatments in paediatric hepatology.
Award programme/theme
Programme grant
Funding amount range
Under £50,000
Maximum duration
Up to 1 year
Cystic Fibrosis Trust - Venture and Innovation Awards [CLOSED]
Designed to bring funding from external agencies into the field of cystic fibrosis research, the Venture and Innovation Awards (VIAs) support transformational and innovative research projects.
Funds hands-on experience of research during the academic summer vacation for promising medical and basic science undergraduates.
Award programme/theme
Studentship / PhD support
Funding amount range
Under £50,000
Maximum duration
8 weeks
Cystic Fibrosis Trust - Strategic Research Centre Funding [CLOSED]
Strategic Research Centres intend to create multidisciplinary teams to address questions of strategic relevance to people with cystic fibrosis.
Award programme/theme
Programme grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
3-5 years
Cystic Fibrosis Trust - Clinical Training Fellowship Programme [CLOSED]
These fellowships provide specialist training in cystic fibrosis medicine, aiming to train the future leaders of specialist adult CF care. They also give Fellows the opportunity to embark on clinically based research, service evaluation or quality improvement projects that will dovetail into their clinical training programmes.