Florence
Nightingale
Foundation

Please note you will need to complete an application form (click the ‘Apply Here’ button) AND record and submit a short video (see more details below) explaining what you will use the funding for.

Your small grants proposal should fall under one of the following categories:

1. Digital platform enhancement 
2. Pastoral support for newly arrived nurses and midwives
3. Professional support support and well being initiatives for internationally educated nurses and midwives
4. Other initiatives – please specify

Essential Criteria to be identified on the Application Form:

• Main applicant for the project must hold a current registration with NMC.
• Details of a secondary contact (also an NMC registrant) who must be contactable if the main contact is unavailable.
• The outcomes of the proposed project are designed to benefit and enhance the pastoral care offer and professional support for their international nursing communities.
• Deliver the project for a maximum period of 6 months with mid and final progress reports.
• A proposal that sets out how the objectives, methods, outcomes and timescales
• Limited to one application per association.
• Supporting reference for the association.
• Must have a bank account named after the association.

Additional Criteria to be identified in a 3-minute Video Presentation (instructions on how to record and upload your video can be found further down this page)

• A proposal that is appropriate, innovative, value for money and sustainable and suitable for their members.
• The association is able to demonstrate that they can deliver and have the necessary skills and resources available.
• The applicant/s can articulate their knowledge of the challenges facing their members.
• The outcomes can be linked to the association’s values/vision.

Additional Criteria to be identified on the Application Form

• The application includes a stakeholder engagement plan.
• The application has a valid dissemination strategy for the project outcomes.
• The application includes a sustainability strategy.

Additional Guidance

• Progress reporting will be required midpoint and at the end of the project.
• Priority will be given to first time applicants who are new or emerging followed by associations from the top 20 ethnicities in the nursing and midwifery workforce of NHS England.
• If you are an emerging/new association, you may have access to the full grant amount of £10,000.

If you are applying for the third round, the criteria for selection and funding will be:

• Based on the numbers on ESR.
• Association memberships and reach.
• The completion of projects as previous recipients of the small grants.
• Previous small grant monies should have been fully used.