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DonateThe Horse Trust Grants Process
The Horse Trust has funded a vast amount of research through key universities, veterinary schools and the Animal Health Trust in order to establish an evidence base for best practice in caring for horses. In some cases, the research has been in collaboration with global experts at establishments the world over, in order to be able to share knowledge with expert scientists.
We use the outcomes of this very important work, first and foremost, at our Home of Rest. Our everyday horse keeping will be shaped by the outcomes of this work. We then work closely with the researchers and with key organisations in the horse world to ensure that it can also be used by other charities, horse world bodies and ultimately individual horse keepers to improve the well-being of horses and ponies.
Grants Available
The Horse Trust offer a select number of grants that are available to applicants.
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Research Grant
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PhD & Postgraduate Studentships
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The Grants Process
The annual research funding grant application process starts with a preliminary application made in October each year. If you are successful at this stage, you will be invited to submit a full application. Request an application form by emailing rebecca.rawson@horsetrust.org.uk.
Due to the number of applications received each year (between 40 and 50), we are unfortunately unable to give specific feedback to unsuccessful applications at the preliminary stage. If successful at the preliminary stage, you will be notified of the deadline for receipt of full proposals; usually mid-February each year.
To ensure The Horse Trust funds projects of the highest ethical standards with sound methodology and the potential for significant impact, we send full proposals for external peer review. Peer reviews are conducted by up to three experts who may be anywhere in the world and who have expertise related to the specific application.
These reviews are scrutinised by the Horse Trust’s Science & Ethics Committee, and the final research funding award is made after consideration by the entire Board of Trustees of The Horse Trust. Applicants are usually informed of the outcome by mid-July each year and projects should commence within 6 months of award. We provide feedback to all shortlisted applicants.
Funding For Publications
All our charitable funds, including those used to fund research, come from donations. It is important that we communicate the outcomes of funded research back to the people who have made it possible, so they can see the impact their donations and your research are having. Therefore, The Horse Trust expects outputs of its funded work to be freely accessible either through use of journal open access (OA) publications or through green open access publishing via an institutional repository. Funding for publishing is not normally available from The Horse Trust and researchers are encouraged to access OA through agreements made between institutions and publishers through ‘Read and Publish’ agreements.
For example, here.
Grant applications that include OA costs will not be considered.
In the meantime, to log your interest and receive updates, email rebecca.rawson@horsetrust.org.uk
There is potentially a very limited amount of funding for Pump Priming Projects and Small Project Grants (projects of up to £20K). If this is the type of funding you are looking for, please email rebecca.rawson@horsetrust.org.uk for an application form. Our Science & Ethics Committee will consider these on select dates.
Grant applications recently accepted from the following institutions…
