Important: Proposals Must Closely Adhere to HIC Fund Specifications & Requirements

Guidance Documents

This section offers a collection of relevant documentation and guidance conveniently organised by topic:

Submitting a Preliminary Application

Please carefully review the ‘Preliminary Application Guidance’ document before completing the Preliminary Application Form

• HIC Fund Preliminary Guidance Information - download
• HIC Fund R8 - Preliminary Application Form - download
• HIC Fund R8 - Supplementary Sheet to Prelim App Form - download

Costing a HIC Fund Project

• NHS Support and Treatment costs
• fEC and TRAC Methodology
• Welcome Trust's guidance on projects costs

Funding Agreement and Grant Conditions

Please carefully review the HIC Fund Funding Agreement and Grant Conditions.

• HIC Fund - Grant conditions
• HIC Fund DH Funding Agt - companies
• HIC Fund WT Funding Agt - companies CLA
• HIC Fund Funding Agt not-for-profit
• HIC Fund Revenue Equity Sharing Agt
• HIC Fund End of Grant Spend Report
• HIC Fund End of Grant Research Report

Important Notes for Applicants

1.  Any invitation to apply for HIC Fund funding from the Wellcome Trust (WT) and Department of Health (DH) does not necessarily mean that such funds will be forthcoming
2. Projects must fit within the overall scope and aim of the HIC Fund and comply with the requirements of the:
   • DH Research Governance Framework (http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Researchanddevelopment/A-Z/Researchgovernance/index.htm)
   • WT’s policies and position statements (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/fundingpolicy)
3. Applicants must provide clear development and post-funding commercialisation plans and are obligated to follow these plans as part of the funding commitment. To ensure that non-commercialised and/or unsuccessfully commercialised IP is utilised to achieve maximum healthcare benefits HIC Fund contracts with successful applicants will include intellectual property reversion clauses to allow WT and DH to take the lead in exploitation in the event that the funding recipient does not do so within an agreed timeframe.
4. Applicants will be expected to disclose proprietary information in their full application and should be aware that all project applications (and any supplementary information provided) will be made available to staff of the WT, DH and external advisors for the purposes of peer-review and due diligence.
5. The WT and DH operate a conflicts of interest policy and place obligations of confidentiality on external advisors (some of whom are employed in the industrial or financial sectors). Whilst the funders attach great importance to their policies and procedures concerning confidentially and conflicts of interest, they cannot provide any warranty to applicants in this regard.
6. The day-to-day business of the funders involves the receipt and review of many confidential applications and consequently it is only under highly exceptional circumstances that they will enter into a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement with applicants.
7. Under some circumstances applicants may receive feedback on their project proposal. This feedback is meant to inform and guide applicants but is not meant to be definitive. Applicants should seek their own independent advice on feedback and its validity.