No-cost extensions

All Blood Cancer UK grants are awarded for a defined period as detailed in your Grant Award Letter and will have a specific end date.

We will consider requests for no-cost extensions if received before the end date of a grant and there are sufficient unspent funds remaining on the grant. These fall into two main categories, which may overlap:

Extension of the grant end date to accommodate changes in funded research staff available to work on the project:

• Recruitment delays
• Gaps in post occupancy during the grant (e.g. a postdoc leaving);
• Where the grant-holder takes a period of leave (e.g. parental leave or sick leave);
• Where the grant-holder revises their hours of employment.

The grant end date may be extended in time only by up to 12 months to allow the completion of the original objectives and project-related activities, within the scope of the original award.

• Non grant-specific activities – e.g. if the original aims/activities on the grant have been completed, or the activities proposed to be undertaken during the NCE are significantly different from the original proposal (since these would not have been peer reviewed)
• Conference/meeting attendance for any purpose that is not dissemination;
• Writing new grant proposals
• Bridging funds to cover a period between grants.

Underspend – use of underspent funds to support a NCE must be justified. Significant underspend should be explained in relation to progress and/or the original costs requested.

Multiple NCEs – extensions may be considered in exceptional circumstances.

Duration – NCE requests should be for no longer than 12 months. Longer extensions will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.

Please email [email protected] with the subject heading NCE request in your email please provide the following information:

• Grant reference number on which you are requesting an extension
• Length of requested extension
• Proposed revised end date of award
• A clear justification for the reason a NCE is being requested
• An overview of all activities proposed for completion during the period of the extension
• Evidence there are sufficient funds remaining on the grant to cover the costs required for the NCE period.