BMA Foundation

The BMA Foundation awards funds to encourage and further medical research. Our mission is to support medical students, doctors and scientists in their research aims and to help pioneer medical research. Through the BMA Foundation, the BMA has been supporting medical research since 1839 and is the oldest medical organisation in the world to award grants and prizes to encourage further medical research. Thanks to the support of generous individuals, approximately 14 research grants totalling over £850,000 are awarded to medical students, research scientists and doctors each year. The grants provide funding for a variety of different subject areas, ranging from research into rheumatism and arthritis, to cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurological disorders. Until 2020, the BMA Foundation for Medical Research consisted of four existing separate registered charities; the HC Roscoe Trust Fund (277391), the James Trust (233691), the British Medical Association Scholarship Trust Fund (245997), and the Joan Dawkins Fund (276097). The trustees brought together the charities under one formal, newly established Charitable Incorporated Organisation called the BMA Foundation. The objects of the new BMA Foundation focus on the overall advancement of health and the relief of sickness for the public benefit.