Inclusion grants

They also help to increase the diversity of people actively involved with Macmillan, health and social care organisations, and community and voluntary groups.

What can I use a grant for?

Activities and projects funded by this grant should:

• show clearly what benefits people affected by cancer will gain from the activity or project
• set out to improve cancer services locally and/or nationally
• show how service users can make a difference by raising awareness of user involvement
• involve service users across all the projects and activities described in your application bid
• share good practice and any lessons learnt by the group
• try to involve people from diverse and poorer communities
• try to involve people from different communities and backgrounds in existing service user groups within Cancer Networks and Primary Care Trusts.

Groups can apply for up to £3,000 to fund new creative and/or developmental user involvement activities and projects.

However we don't fund;

• retrospective bids (for example, costs for events or activities that have already happened)
• gifts and honoraria
• more than one application per group per year - therefore a group whose first application is unsuccessful can apply again in any subsequent round(s) in the same year, but will not be funded more than once in any year
• applications for more than the maximum possible award
• self-help and/or support activities, such as peer support groups as funding is available for these activities through Macmillan’s cancer support group grants programme .

How to apply for a grant

The grants programme has now closed for 2011. We'll be launching a different programme in 2012. Please contact resources@macmillan.org.uk| for further information. If you'd prefer to receive information by post, please call 0207 840 4936.

We'll provide further details about the new grants programme on our website in early 2012. Grant application packs will be available from early February 2012.