Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation

• This funder suits organisations whose work is clinical or scientific research into diabetes, which is what it funds, and it directs its money to research institutions in the UK and around the world, so check that your organisation is one before you apply.
• Typical grants run from £2,800 to £185,000, with a median of £12,500, so size a request to sit within that band; the band is not a limit, and the annual report gives only five grants to organisations, so the figures are thin.
• Applications are made through calls for Fellowships and Pump Priming Awards, which are announced twice yearly against fixed deadlines, so plan your timetable around those dates.
• Every application goes through robust peer review, and the foundation says it aims to fund only the highest-quality research at the best institutions, so expect a demanding written process.
• Nothing stated suggests that contact before applying matters, so the application itself will carry the weight.

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

• University of Oxford
  £181,648year to 31 December 2025
• University of Cambridge - Clinical Fellowship 2025 · Clinical Fellowship 2025
  £80,002year to 31 December 2025
• BHR Ltd - Islet Transplant · Islet Transplant
  £12,500year to 31 December 2025
• University of East Anglia - Clinical Fellowship 2021 · Clinical Fellowship 2021
  £6,584year to 31 December 2025
• Autek CIC - Autism and Diabetes · Autism and Diabetes
  £2,800year to 31 December 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 1 with no named recipient; 2 with no amount stated.

• Grants paid, year to 31 December 2021; year to 31 December 2022; year to 31 December 2023; year to 31 December 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
• Grants paid, year to 31 December 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.

• Annual report (year to 31 December 2025)

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.