Tap into the power of 'if'
The Ideas Fund is a grants programme run by the British Science Association and funded by Wellcome, which supports more equitable community-researcher collaboration with a focus on mental wellbeing
Sharing the value of community-led research partnerships
Since we funded our first mental wellbeing projects in 2021, we’ve learned a lot about the impact that community-led collaboration with researchers can have. We’re now working closely with some of these projects to really build the evidence around the types of impact these partnerships are having.
Read more about our Evidence Building Grants
Our story so far
We’ve tested ways of funding projects flexibly, using a place based approach that prioritised supporting ideas with potential from groups embedded in their communities. We’re now focused on working alongside our group of funded projects to understand how our approach, and their community-researcher partnerships, create change at individual, organisation and systems levels.
Read more about our journey so farLatest
Let’s Talk: Relationships and Equitable Community Research
What does it really mean to invest in relationships? We share emerging learning from The Ideas Fund on trust, flexibility and creating the conditions for relationships to shape the work.
Bridging Communities and Health Systems
Building on the insights from Reimagining Research, this interactive resource explores the unexpected ways community-led research can influence health systems and services. Through an interactive map and audio clips drawn from interviews with contributors connected to The Ideas Fund and beyond, it explores how impact emerges through relationships, collaboration and shared learning, rather than through linear or predetermined outcomes.
Thanks for everything, friends
As our Grants and Learning Manager Jill heads off to new things, she shares some reflections on themes coming out of community-led collaboration with research right now.
